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Labor Market
Employment, participation, hiring, and how the US labor market is changing.
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Union Membership in 2025
According to calculations from Current Population Survey microdata released today, the US union membership rate in 2025 was 10.0 percent,...
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Labor Market Conditions and Impulse
Labor markets can deteriorate very rapidly, resulting in an economic recession. As such, economists monitor conditions closely. Currently...
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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...