1. 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 ...

2. Third Way or Dead End? Autor-Wasserman's Hypothesis that Single Mothers Contribute to the College Gender Gap
(Matching tags: inequality, education)

... the emerging gender gap in educational attainment …”.            Although male and female children within a given household are theoretically exposed to the same ...

3. Labor Market Policy Research Reports, March 16 – 22, 2013
(Matching tags: immigration, education, budget, globalization, work, job market)

Here are the latest labor market policy research reports: Center for American Progress The Economic Effects of Granting Legal Status and Citizenship to Undocumented Immigrants Robert Lynch and Patrick ...

4. Venezuelan Economic and Social Performance Under Hugo Chávez, in Graphs
(Matching tags: poverty, venezuela, health, inequality, education, social services, Chavez, economic growth)

On Tuesday, Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez passed away after 14 years in office. Below is a series of graphs that illustrate the economic and social changes that have taken place in Venezuela during ...

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

... Conundrum: Why the Benefits of a College Education May Not Be So Clear, Especially to Men” (pdf). We argued there that one reason why men may be falling behind women in college completion is that men have ...

6. Nearly 1.4 Million Workers Have Below-Poverty Incomes; Most of Them Have Education Beyond High School
(Matching tags: poverty, inequality, workers, education)

... 2011 in the number of workers (ages 25-64) below the federal poverty line, and breaks the numbers down by educational attainment. As the table shows, there were nearly 1.4 million more workers with ...

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

...  Early Childhood Education as an Essential Component of Economic Development Arthur MacEwan  ...

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

... There is another category: those who are 'not in employment, education or training,' or NEETs, as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development calls them." The idea is that, from a societal ...

9. Policies to Match the Rhetoric: Buen Vivir in Ecuador
(Matching tags: poverty, GDP, education, ecuador)

A guest post by former CEPR intern Tara Ruttenberg. Ecuador made international headlines this week, first for plaintiffs taking their fight to Argentina and Colombia to hold Chevron accountable for decades ...

10. 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  ...