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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Tracking the Transition of Michigan's Displaced Auto Workers During Significant Restructuring in the Auto Industry

January 1, 2012 · Research

Data Analysis of the Implementation of the Recovery Act: Workforce Development and Unemployment Insurance Provisions

January 1, 2012 · Research

Graduating High School in a Recession: Work, Education, and Home Production

January 1, 2012 · Research

Including Jobs in Benefit-Cost Analysis

November 30, 2011 · Research

An Analysis of Risk-Taking Behavior for Public Defined Benefit Pension Plans

November 18, 2011 · Research

Pension Reform: How Have Workers Fared?

October 1, 2011 · Research

Occupational Licensing: Protecting the Public Interest or Protectionism?

July 1, 2011 · Research

What Do Indexes of Consumer Confidence Tell Us?

July 1, 2011 · Research

The Policy Challenges of Increasing Longevity: Paying for the Costs of Living Longer

July 1, 2011 · Research

The Efficiency of a Group-Specific Mandated Benefit Revisited: The Effect of Infertility Mandates

May 1, 2011 · Research

The Persistence of Employee 401(k) Contributions Over a Major Stock Market Cycle: Evidence on the Limited Power of Inertia on Savings Behavior

April 1, 2011 · Research

The Lack of Persistence of Employee Contributions to Their 401(k) Plans May Lead to Insufficient Retirement Savings

April 1, 2011 · Research

Employer-Provided Health Insurance and Labor Supply of Married Women

March 1, 2011 · Research

The Policy Challenges of Increasing Longevity: Paying the Costs of Living Longer

January 1, 2011 · Research

Longevity Policy: Facing Up to Longevity Issues Affecting Social Security, Pensions, and Older Workers

January 1, 2011 · Research

Imagining the Ideal Pension System: International Perspectives

January 1, 2011 · Research

Constructing the Ideal Pension System: The Visions of Ten Country Experts

January 1, 2011 · Research

Imagining the Ideal U.S. Pension System

January 1, 2011 · Research

Imagining the Ideal UK Pension System

January 1, 2011 · Research

Public and Private Provision of Pensions and the Ideal Pension System for Ireland

January 1, 2011 · Research