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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Trends in Hours of Work in the United States

January 1, 2001 · Research

Working Hard

January 1, 2001 · Research

Working Time, Wages, and Earnings Inequality among Men and Women in Canada, 1981–1993

January 1, 2001 · Research

Ensuring Health and Income Security for an Aging Workforce

January 1, 2001 · Research

Labor, Business, and Change in Germany and the United States

January 1, 2001 · Research

Pay at Risk: Compensation and Employment Risk in the United States and Canada

January 1, 2001 · Research

The Political Economy of Health Care Reforms

January 1, 2001 · Research

Working Time in Comparative Perspective: Volume I - Patterns, Trends, and the Policy Implications of Earnings Inequality and Unemployment

January 1, 2001 · Research

Working Time in Comparative Perspective: Volume II - Life-Cycle Working Time and Nonstandard Work

January 1, 2001 · Research

The Child Care Problem for Low-income Working Families

January 1, 2001 · Research

Who Moonlights and Why? Evidence from the SIPP

January 1, 2001 · Research

Why Employers Use Flexible Staffing Arrangements: Evidence from an Establishment Survey

October 1, 2000 · Research

The Economics of Medicare Reform

October 1, 2000 · Research

Group Wage Curves

September 1, 2000 · Research

Rising Wage Inequality in Urban Labor Markets

July 1, 2000 · Research

Employment-Related Child Care Issues: What We Know and What We Do Not

April 1, 2000 · Research

Marital Status and Full-Time/Part-Time Work Status in Child Care Choices

March 1, 2000 · Research

Unemployment Compensation and Older Workers

January 1, 2000 · Research

Changes in Income Inequality within U.S. Metropolitan Areas

January 1, 2000 · Research

Introduction [to Rising Wage Inequality]

January 1, 2000 · Research