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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An Overview [to The Economics of Aging]

January 1, 1985 · Research

Inflation and the Economic Well-Being of Older Americans

January 1, 1985 · Research

Over the Hill and Under the Weather: Age v. Health

January 1, 1985 · Research

Retirement Incentives—The Carrot and the Stick: Why No One Works Beyond 65 Anymore

January 1, 1985 · Research

The Economics of Aging: Doomsday or Shangrila?

January 1, 1985 · Research

The Outlook for Social Security in the Wake of the 1983 Amendments

January 1, 1985 · Research

The Economics of Aging

January 1, 1985 · Research

Human Resource Implications of Robotics

January 1, 1985 · Research

An Assessment of Data Sources to Study the Employment Effects of Technological Change

January 1, 1985 · Research

Statement [for] Distribution and Economics of Employer Provided Fringe Benefits: Hearings before the Subcommittee on Social Security and Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures of the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives

September 17, 1984 · Research

Hearing on Fair Reduction-in-Force (RIF) Practice Act of 1984 (H.R. 6080) before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Post Office and Civil Service Subcommittee on Human Resources: Testimony

September 13, 1984 · Research

Technology, Labor Interests and the Law: Some Fundamental Points and Problems

April 1, 1984 · Research

Introduction [to The Plant Closure Policy Dilemma]

January 1, 1984 · Research

Introduction [to Union-Management Cooperation]

January 1, 1984 · Research

What's the Problem?

January 1, 1984 · Research

Union-Management Cooperation: Structure, Process, Impact

January 1, 1984 · Research

The Plant Closure Policy Dilemma: Labor, Law and Bargaining

January 1, 1984 · Research

Worker Participation and American Unions: Threat or Opportunity

January 1, 1984 · Research

A Research Agenda for Employment and Training Policy in the Eighties

January 1, 1984 · Research

A Description of Employed and Unemployed Youth in 1981

January 1, 1984 · Research