# Economy OpenVerbs Labor Market History

> Economy OpenVerbs Labor Market History is a paid API for AI agents from economy.openverbs.com, paid per call via x402, $0.004/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-29).

Returns World Bank WDI annual labor-market data (unemployment, labor-force participation, employment-to-population ratio) for a given country over up to 10 years

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://economy.openverbs.com/v1/labor-market?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.004/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-29
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/economy-openverbs-labor-market-history-61fb2df5
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_igYv2nFOSlAku-O2BVc7P

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability economy-openverbs-labor-market-history-61fb2df5 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you pull the World Bank WDI labor-market history for Brazil — I want unemployment rate, labor-force participation, and employment-to-population ratio for the last 7 years?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need historical, annual, country-level labor market statistics (unemployment, labor-force participation, employment-to-population) sourced from World Bank WDI with ILO modeled estimates. It is ideal for macroeconomic research, country risk analysis, investment reports, or policy studies where official, internationally comparable annual data is required. Prefer this over real-time or survey-based labor sources when longitudinal comparability and World Bank/ILO provenance matter. Not suitable for monthly releases, real-time unemployment figures, or regional/sub-national breakdowns.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or unsupported ISO3 country code returns an error; region aggregates are not supported
- Years value outside 1–10 range is rejected by schema validation
- Missing observations are returned as nulls rather than filled or interpolated
- Payment failure (x402) if USDC balance is insufficient or payment not provided
- Data may be outdated if World Bank WDI has not yet published the most recent year's figures
- No sub-annual (monthly/quarterly) data — only complete calendar years are returned

## How this service works

Country labor-market history from World Bank WDI: unemployment (% of labor force), labor-force participation and employment/population (ages 15+), as modeled ILO estimates. ISO3 country, last 1-10 complete years, independent latest values, nulls, update date and ILO/CC BY attribution. Annual estimates, not real-time or monthly releases; definitions affect comparability.

## Output

A JSON object containing annual time-series data for the requested country (ISO3 code) covering up to 10 complete calendar years. Fields include: unemployment rate (% of labor force), labor-force participation rate (ages 15+), employment-to-population ratio (ages 15+), a flag for the latest available values, null entries where observations are missing, the data update date, and ILO/CC BY attribution metadata.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "years": {
   "type": "integer",
   "default": 5,
   "maximum": 10,
   "minimum": 1,
   "description": "Last N complete calendar years in UTC, resolved before payment. Missing observations are not filled."
  },
  "country": {
   "type": "string",
   "pattern": "^[A-Za-z]{3}$",
   "description": "ISO 3166 alpha-3 code for one of 215 World Bank-supported countries/territories, e.g. BRA, IND or ZAF. No region aggregates."
  }
 }
}
```

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