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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Introduction [to Poverty and Inequality]

January 1, 1997 · Research

Regional Poverty and Inequality in the United States

January 1, 1997 · Research

The International Evidence on Income Distribution in Modern Economics: Where Do We Stand?

January 1, 1997 · Research

The Reality of Redistribution

January 1, 1997 · Research

Why Has Economic Growth Been Such an Ineffective Tool Against Poverty in Recent Years?

January 1, 1997 · Research

Employee Benefits and Tax Reform

January 1, 1997 · Research

External and Internal Labor Market Flexibility: An International Comparison

January 1, 1997 · Research

Summary Findings of a Report on Temporary, Part-Time, and Contract Employment in the United States

January 1, 1997 · Research

Employee Benefits and Tax Reform

July 1, 1996 · Research

Reducing the Welfare Dependence of Single-Mother Families: Health-Related Employment Barriers and Policy Responses

March 1, 1996 · Research

Employee Representation in Economies in Transition: Discussion

January 5, 1996 · Research

Introduction and Overview [to Labor Law, Industrial Relations and Employee Choice]

January 1, 1996 · Research

Setting the Stage

January 1, 1996 · Research

Labor Law, Industrial Relations and Employee Choice: The State of the Workplace in the 1990s: Hearings of the Commission on the Future of Worker-Management Relations, 1993-94

January 1, 1996 · Research

Workdays, Workhours and Work Schedules: Evidence for the United States and Germany

January 1, 1996 · Research

Beating the System?

January 1, 1996 · Research

Explaining Tax Compliance

January 1, 1996 · Research

Introduction [to Exploring the Underground Economy]

January 1, 1996 · Research

Overseas Holdings of U.S. Currency and the Underground Economy

January 1, 1996 · Research

The Informal Economy: Perspectives from Latin America

January 1, 1996 · Research