Labor Market Issues

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Jobs are changing, and the future of work will challenge many long-held assumptions about employment. Upjohn Institute research explores evolving struggles over wages, inequality, immigration and regulations and emerging trends of gig work, automation and offshoring.

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Research details declining working class, increasing inequality over four decades

March 30, 2021 · Research Highlight

Pandemic restrictions and shutdowns don't have lasting effect on jobs, new research finds

February 15, 2021 · Research Highlight
Restrictions reduce employment while they're in place but deaths from the virus have a lasting drag on employment.

ForeWARNing? Michigan’s Announced Mass Layoffs Under the WARN Act

May 13, 2020 · Research Highlight
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Pension Policy for a Mobile Labor Force

January 1, 1993 · Research

Profit Sharing: Does It Make a Difference?: The Productivity and Stability Effects of Employee Profit-Sharing Plans

January 1, 1993 · Research

The Costs of Worker Dislocation

January 1, 1993 · Research

Applying Skills-Based Automation Through Participatory Management: The Center for Applied Technology

January 1, 1993 · Research

Can the End of the Social Democratic Trade Unions be the Beginning of a New Kind of Social Democratic Politics?

January 1, 1993 · Research

Collaborative Restructuring Efforts: Textile and Apparel Labor-Management Innovation Network, Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania

January 1, 1993 · Research

Economic Development and Industrial Relations in a Small-Firm Economy: The Experience of Metalworkers in Emilia-Romagna, Italy

January 1, 1993 · Research

International Competition and the Organization of Production: The Study Action Team Process at Trico Products

January 1, 1993 · Research

Introduction [to Economic Restructuring and Emerging Patterns of Industrial Relations]

January 1, 1993 · Research

Labor and Industrial Relations Strategies in the State of Michigan

January 1, 1993 · Research

Managing Local Development: Lessons from Spain

January 1, 1993 · Research

Training and the New Industrial Relations: A Strategic Role for Unions

January 1, 1993 · Research

Worker Democracy in Socialist France

January 1, 1993 · Research

Economic Restructuring and Emerging Patterns of Industrial Relations

January 1, 1993 · Research

Job Security in America: Lessons from Germany

January 1, 1993 · Research

Culture and Human Capital: Theory and Evidence or Theory Versus Evidence?

January 1, 1993 · Research

Job Security and Work Force Adjustment: How Different are U.S. and Japanese Practices?

January 1, 1993 · Research

Child Care and the Employment Behavior of Single and Married Mothers

November 1, 1992 · Research

Moonlighting Behavior: Theory and Evidence

May 1, 1992 · Research

Taxes, Fringe Benefits and Faculty

May 1, 1992 · Research