1. Labor Market Policy Research Reports, Nov. 7 – 10, 2011
(Matching tags: jobs, retirement, labor market)

CLASP and EPI released new labor policy reports last week. Center for Law and Social Policy Big Ideas for Job Creation: Rethinking Work Opportunity - From Tax Credits to Subsidized Job Placements ...

2. Labor Market Policy in the Great Recession: Some Lessons from Denmark and Germany
(Matching tags: labor market)

May 2011, John Schmitt

3. Labor Market Policy Research Reports, March 13-18, 2011
(Matching tags: labor market)

This week, we post links to reports from Center for American Progress, Center for Economic and Policy Research, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Demos, Economic Policy Institute, and National Employment ...

4. Labor Market Policy Research Reports, March 7-11, 2011
(Matching tags: labor market)

This week, we post links to reports from Center for Economic and Policy Research, Demos, Economic Policy Institute, National Employment Law Project, and Political Economy Research Institute.

5. Labor Market Policy Research Reports, February 25, 2011 – March 6, 2011
(Matching tags: labor market)

This week, we post links to reports from Center for American Progress, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Center for Law & Social Policy, Economic Policy Institute, The Joint Center for Political ...

6. Labor Market Policy Research Reports, Feb. 12 – 25, 2011
(Matching tags: labor market)

This is the fifth installment of a new weekly feature at the CEPR Blog. Every Friday, we'll post a list of labor market related policy research reports from progressive research centers around the country. ...

7. Labor Market Policy Research Reports, Feb. 5 - 11, 2011
(Matching tags: labor market)

This is the fourth installment of a new weekly feature at the CEPR blog. Every Friday, we'll post a list of labor market related policy research reports from progressive research centers around the country. ...

8. Labor Market Policy Research Reports, Jan. 22-28, 2011
(Matching tags: labor market)

This is the second install of a new weekly feature at the CEPR blog. Every Friday, we'll post a list of labor market related policy research reports from progressive research centers around the country. ...

9. Labor Market Policy Research Reports, Jan 1-21, 2011
(Matching tags: labor market)

A new feature here at the CEPR blog. Once a week, we'll post a list of labor market related policy research reports from progressive research centers around the country. This week's batch includes new ...

10. Carry On, Wayward Sons
(Matching tags: labor market, inequality, education)

... Labor Markets and Education (pdf). I had already read the study, so I was surprised to read her description of it. The new report, she writes: “... makes a startling discovery. Authors David Autor and ...

11. Labor Market Policy Research Reports, February 23 – March 8, 2013
(Matching tags: poverty, jobs, labor market, inequality, unemployment, paid sick days, women, employment)

The following is a collection of the latest labor market policy research reports: Center for Economic and Policy Research The Human Capital Dimensions of Sustainable Investment: What Investment Analysts ...

12. Studying the Studies on the Minimum Wage
(Matching tags: jobs, labor market, minimum wage)

In a full page ad in today's Politico, the conservative Employment Policies Institute (not to be confused with the progressive Economic Policy Institute) claims that “85 percent of the most credible economic ...

13. Labor Market Policy Research Reports, February 9 – 22, 2013
(Matching tags: immigration, labor market, inequality, unemployment, paid sick days, taxes, minimum wage, discrimination, small businesses, income taxes, in-home care)

Here is a collection of the latest labor market policy research reports from the past few weeks: Center for American Progress An Executive Order to Prevent Discrimination Against LGBT Workers Lee ...

14. Gender, Debt, and Dropping Out
(Matching tags: labor market, education, college, women, employment, work, men, college degree, high school degree)

The latest issue of the peer-reviewed academic journal, Gender and Society, has an excellent paper by Rachel Dwyer, Randy Hodson, and Laura McCloud on “Gender, Debt, and Dropping Out of College” (which ...

15. Labor Market Policy Research Reports, February 2 – 8, 2013
(Matching tags: health care, economy, jobs, labor market, unemployment, trade deficit, economic growth, climate change, affirmative action, manufacturing)

Here are the latest labor market policy research reports from the past week: Center for American Progress Inclusive Economic Growth: Increasing Connectivity, Expanding Opportunity, and Reducing Vulnerability ...

16. Labor Market Policy Research Reports, January 26 – February 1, 2013
(Matching tags: labor market, paid sick days, taxes, SNAP, macroeconomics, nafta, low-income households)

Here is a collection of the latest labor market policy research reports from the past week: Center for Economic and Policy Research Macroeconomic Policy Advice and the Article IV Consultations: A ...

17. Rising Inequality: Don't Blame the Robots
(Matching tags: jobs, labor market, inequality, workers, unions, employment, globalization)

... bottom of the income distribution have seen relative declines in their wages because the demand for labor has simply not kept pace with the supply. The most prominent proponent of this view is David ...

18. Visualizing State Union Numbers
(Matching tags: labor market, public sector, workers, unions, labor, private sector, states)

Last week, the Bureau of Labor statistics released its estimates for union members in the United States in 2012. CEPR published our own analysis of the numbers, including a breakdown of state union membership ...

19. Labor Market Policy Research Reports, January 5 – January 25, 2013
(Matching tags: labor market, inequality, job creation, Social Security, economic recovery)

Here are the labor market policy research reports released in the past few weeks: Center for Economic and Policy Research Raising the Social Security Payroll Tax Cap: How Many Workers Would Pay More? ...

20. Union Membership, 2012
(Matching tags: jobs, labor market, public sector, unions, private sector)

On January 23, the Bureau of Labor Statistics will release its estimates of “Union Membership” for 2012. Using the same data from the Current Population Survey (CPS), we have compiled advance estimates ...

21. Back to Full Employment
(Matching tags: economy, recession, jobs, labor market, unemployment, recovery)

By the conventional “peak to trough” measure, the recession that began in December 2007 ended 18 months later, in June 2009. But you’d be hard-pressed to find much evidence of “recovery” in the labor market.  ...

22. Labor Market Policy Research Reports - December 15, 2012 - January 4, 2013
(Matching tags: economy, labor market, paid sick days, work sharing, education)

Here’s a collection of labor market policy research reports released over the past two weeks: Center for Law and Social Policy Seizing the Moment: A Guide to Adopting State Work Sharing Legislation ...

23. Labor Market Policy Research Reports, December 8 – 14, 2012
(Matching tags: retirement, labor market, Social Security, taxes, right to work)

Here’s a roundup of labor market research reports released over the past week: Center for American Progress Michigan ‘Right-to-Work’ Bill Is the Wrong Economics for the Middle Class Adam Hersh, Heather ...

24. 'Choosing' to Work Part-Time
(Matching tags: labor market, women, part-time employment, gender inequality)

... part-time at nearly double the rate of men. As the figure below demonstrates, the main reason for higher part-time rates among women is that they “choose” part-time jobs for what the Bureau of Labor ...

25. Labor Market Policy Research Reports, December 1 – 7, 2012
(Matching tags: health, jobs, labor market, low-wage jobs)

Here’s a roundup of labor market research reports released over the past week: Employment Policy Institute Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Coverage Continues to Decline in a New Decade Elise ...

26. Young, Educated and Jobless in America?
(Matching tags: economy, jobs, labor market, education, europe, wages, college, unionization)

... labor-market challenges facing Europe and the United States. The story focuses on the plight of young, college graduates in France (and several other European countries) who have been unable to find work ...

27. Labor Market Policy Research Reports, November 17 – 30, 2012
(Matching tags: debt, jobs, retirement, labor market, paid family leave, environment, wages, deficit)

Here's a roundup of labor market research reports released over the past two weeks: Center for American Progress Workers Deserve Equal Access to Paid Leave and Workplace Flexibility Sarah Jane Glynn ...

28. Labor Market Policy Research Reports, October 27 – November 2, 2012
(Matching tags: health care, poverty, labor market, inequality, workers, paid family leave, education, medical leave, public policy)

Here’s a roundup of labor market research reports released in the past week: Center for American Progress The Many Benefits of Paid Family and Medical Leave Heather Boushey and Sarah Jane Glynn  ...

29. Katrina and Sandy
(Matching tags: jobs, labor market, unemployment, weather)

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the two states impacted the most, Louisiana and Mississippi, both had huge spikes in unemployment. The graph below shows the monthly unemployment rates of all 50 ...

30. Labor Market Policy Research Reports, October 19 – 26, 2012
(Matching tags: labor market, inequality, unemployment)

Here’s a roundup of labor market research reports released in the past week: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities A Guide to Statistics on Historical Trends in Income Inequality Chad Stone, Danilo ...

31. Labor Market Policy Research Reports, October 13 – 18, 2012
(Matching tags: immigration, labor market, paid sick days, workers, business)

Here’s a roundup of labor market research reports released in the past week: Economic Policy Institute Paid Sick Days: Measuring the Small Cost to New York City Businesses Elise Gould and Doug Hall ...

32. Labor Market Policy Research Reports, October 6 – 12, 2012
(Matching tags: economy, labor market, education, women)

Here’s a roundup of labor market research reports released in the past week: Economic Policy Institute Counting up to Green: Assessing the Green Economy and Its Implications for Growth and Equity ...

33. Labor Market Policy Research Reports, September 29 – October 5, 2012
(Matching tags: jobs, labor market, public-sector workers, unemploment)

Here’s a roundup of labor market research reports released in the past week: Center for Economic Policy and Research The Problem With Structural Unemployment in the U.S. Dean Baker National Employment ...

34. Labor Market Policy Research Reports, September 22 – 28, 2012
(Matching tags: health care, labor market, Social Security, unions, paid family leave, collective bargaining)

Here’s a roundup of labor market research reports released in the past week:   Center for American Progress Social Security Cares: Why America is Ready for Paid Family and Medical Leave Ann ...

35. (Employer Opposition to) Forming Unions in the United States and Canada
(Matching tags: labor market, unions, wages, worker rights)

My colleague John Schmitt provided an excellent overview of my recent paper about organized labor in the United States and Canada, “Protecting Fundamental Labor Rights: Lessons from Canada for the United ...

36. Labor Market Policy Research Reports, August 27 – 31
(Matching tags: labor market, inequality, unions, wages, private equity, discrimination, public sector workers)

Here’s a roundup of labor market research reports released in the past week: Center for American Progress Gay and Transgender Discrimination in the Public Sector Crosby Burns, Kate Childs Graham, ...

37. Obtaining a Contract after Unionization in the United States and Canada
(Matching tags: labor market, unions, wages, worker rights)

Last week, I highlighted what I see as one of the two key labor policy differences between the United States and Canada – the process by which unions are formed.  Today, I’d like to look at the other ...

38. Labor Market Policy Research Reports August 17 – 24, 2012
(Matching tags: jobs, labor market, education, minimum wage, China, women, trade deficit)

Here’s a roundup of labor market research reports released in the past week: Center for American Progress The Competition that Really Matters Donna Cooper, Adam Hersh, and Ann O’Leary Demos Florida’s ...

39. Labor Day Lessons From Canada
(Matching tags: labor market, workers, unions, labor, canada)

My CEPR colleague, Kris Warner, has a new paper on what we can learn about labor law here in the United States from the experience of our neighbors in Canada. The whole paper is worth a ...

40. Where Have all the Good Jobs Gone? Infographic Edition
(Matching tags: health, jobs, retirement, labor market, education, employment, good jobs)

... expect given gains in labor productivity and educational attainment over the same span.  The share of men at this threshold, by contrast, falls—from about 57.5 percent in 1979 to about 54.5 percent ...

41. CEPR News August 2012
(Matching tags: wikileaks, jobs, housing, labor market, unions, Honduras, private equity, canada, ecuador, julian assange)

The following highlights CEPR's latest research, publications, events and much more. CEPR on Good Jobs CEPR’s July report “Where Have All the Good Jobs Gone?” continued to receive media attention in ...

42. Labor Market Policy Research Reports August 11 – 17
(Matching tags: economy, jobs, labor market, taxes, minimum wage)

Here’s a roundup of labor market research reports released in the past two weeks: Center for American Progress Getting America’s Freight Back on the Move Keith Miller, Kristina Costa, and Donna Cooper ...

43. Labor Market Policy Research Reports July 14 – 20, 2012
(Matching tags: labor market, Social Security, minimum wage, direct care work)

Here’s a roundup of labor market research reports released in the past week: Center for Economic and Policy Research Caring for Caregivers in Retirement: Social Security Works for Direct Care Workers ...

44. Low-Wage Workers Are Older and Better Educated Than Ever – Infographic Edition!
(Matching tags: labor market, education)

In April, John Schmitt and I published a CEPR report describing how the experience and education upgrading of the workforce has not received the labor market rewards it deserves. And while I think we did ...

45. Labor Market Policy Research Reports, July 7 – 13, 2012
(Matching tags: jobs, labor market, inequality, unemployment, women)

Here’s a roundup of labor market research reports released in the past week: Center for Economic and Policy Research Missing the Story: The OECD's Analysis of Inequality David Rosnick and Dean Baker ...

46. Poor Sales, Not High Wages, Worry Small Businesses
(Matching tags: economy, recession, jobs, labor market, minimum wage, businesses)

... of the NFIB’s own survey reveals a very different picture. While the NFIB warns that minimum wage increases would create serious cost problems for small businesses, few of their members list "labor costs" ...

47. Labor Market Policy Research Reports June 30 – July 6, 2012
(Matching tags: jobs, retirement, labor market, unemployment)

Here’s a roundup of labor market research reports released in the past week: Economic Policy Institute: Black Metropolitan Unemployment in 2011:  Las Vegas's Rates Rise Significantly Algernon ...

48. Labor Market Policy Research Reports June 22 – 29, 2012
(Matching tags: poverty, economy, labor market, unemployment, taxes)

Here’s a roundup of labor market research reports released in the past week: Center for Economic and Policy Research: Attacking the Treasury View, Again Dean Baker Center on Budget and Policy Priorities ...

49. Labor Market Policy Research Reports, June 9 – 22, 2012
(Matching tags: labor market, workers, discrimination, public transit)

Here’s a roundup of labor market research reports released in the past two weeks: Center for American Progress: A State-by-State Examination of Nondiscrimination Laws and Policies:  State Nondiscrimination ...

50. Labor Market Policy Research Reports May 18 - 25, 2012
(Matching tags: health care, recession, jobs, labor market, unemployment, unions, paid time off)

The following are the latest labor market policy research reports from the past week. Center for Economic Policy and Research Size and Characteristics of States’ Union Workforces John Schmitt and ...