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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Commentary [on Is Working Longer and Retiring Later Possible?]

January 1, 2001 · Research

Commentary [on Job Loss]

January 1, 2001 · Research

Editors' Introduction [to Ensuring Health and Income security for an Aging Workforce]

January 1, 2001 · Research

Employer Perspective on Retirement Trends and Policies to Encourage Work among Older Americans

January 1, 2001 · Research

Extending Health Insurance Coverage for Older Workers and Early Retirees

January 1, 2001 · Research

Getting Older in the 21st Century

January 1, 2001 · Research

Health Insurance Coverage of People in the Ten Years before Medicare Eligibility

January 1, 2001 · Research

Health, Disability, and the Aging Workforce from the Employer's Perspective

January 1, 2001 · Research

How Working-Age People with Disabilities Fared over the 1990s Business Cycle

January 1, 2001 · Research

Living Longer, but Able to Work?

January 1, 2001 · Research

Permanent Partial Disability from Occupational Injuries

January 1, 2001 · Research

Policy Options for Filling Gaps in the Health Insurance Coverage of Older Workers and Early Retirees

January 1, 2001 · Research

Retirement Trends and Policies to Encourage Work among Older Americans

January 1, 2001 · Research

Social Insurance and the Older Worker

January 1, 2001 · Research

The Effect of a Job Loss on the Employment Experience, Benefits, and Retirement Savings of Bank Officers

January 1, 2001 · Research

The Effects of Job Loss on Older Workers

January 1, 2001 · Research

Unemployment Compensation and Older Workers

January 1, 2001 · Research

Workers' Compensation and Older Workers

January 1, 2001 · Research

Mutual Learning with Trade-Offs

January 1, 2001 · Research

National Institutional Frameworks and Innovative Industrial Organization

January 1, 2001 · Research