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 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 ...

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

... research from the last 20 years” demonstrates that the minimum wage “reduces opportunities for the least-skilled jobseekers.” In making that claim, the Employment Policies Institute cites research published ...

4. 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 ...

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

... of the last three decades have displaced large numbers of relatively good paying jobs in manufacturing and elsewhere. This loss of middle class jobs has forced formerly well-paid workers to crowd into ...

6. Are the Job Polarization Data Robust?
(Matching tags: jobs, inequality, wages, technology)

This post is the fourth in a short series that assesses the role of technological change and job polarization in wage inequality trends. In an earlier post, John Schmitt showed that “job ...

7. 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 ...

8. Occupation Employment Trends and Wage Inequality: What the Long View Tells Us
(Matching tags: jobs, inequality, wages)

This post is the third in a short series that assesses the role of technological change and job polarization in wage inequality trends. The discussion of job polarization—the expansion ...

9. Timing Matters: Can Job Polarization Explain Wage Trends
(Matching tags: jobs, inequality, wages)

The recently posted introduction of Assessing the job polarization explanation of growing wage inequality, a paper I wrote with Heidi Shierholz and John Schmitt, has started to raise some ...

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

... measure (see graphic below) is simply to chart our progress towards regaining the jobs lost during the downturn.  This yields a flat threshold at the December 2007 employment levels, and a jobs deficit ...