Labor Market
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Union Membership in 2023
According to calculations from Current Population Survey microdata released today, the union membership rate in 2023 was 10.0 percent, do...
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Trends in Hours Worked in the US
US average hours worked were stagnant before COVID-19 but fell in the last two years for ostensibly positive reasons. The US would need l...
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Strong Labor Market Continues
The strong labor market continued in November, according to this morning’s jobs report. The US added a net total of 199,000 jobs in the m...
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Disability and the Labor Market
Given the relatively tight labor market, individuals with disabilities have been finding work more easily than in the past. However, in a...
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State Family Leave Systems and Labor Force Participation
The US infamously lacks a national family leave system. These systems are a form of social insurance, offering temporary income replaceme...
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Maternity/Paternity Leave in the US
Unlike comparable countries, the US federal government does not require businesses to provide paid maternity or paternity leave to new pa...
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Measuring Earnings from Work
Despite the ongoing pandemic, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics report that a typical full-time worker earns the equivalent of more than ...
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Adding texture to the jobs report
The monthly jobs report shows a widely-cited spike in unemployment, starting in April 2020, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s wo...
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Teacher summer jobs
I’m curious about how jobs are changing for the roughly 5.5 million teachers in the US. Teaching doesn’t pay as well as jobs that require...
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How far can full employment get us?
Full employment–a version of the US economy where anyone who wants a job has one–is an important complement to welfare for poverty reduct...
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Who gets credit for the wage growth of low wage workers?
Last month, I pointed out 7% wage growth at the first decile (10th percentile). The CEA noted this same figure in a recent report, claimi...
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Wage growth is in the pipeline
If you haven’t looked at the US wage distribution recently, you might be surprised to see nominal growth of 7.0 percent in 2019 Q3 and 6....