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March 2019
Is the U.S. labor market for truck drivers broken?
This article examines the state of the U.S. labor market for truck drivers, using data on employment, earnings, and occupational mobility.
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Can employers sustain profitability while employees delay their retirement?
This book examines the costs of delayed retirement on firm profitability and the strategies firms use to counter those costs
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Want more workers? Improve parental leave policies
U.S. labor force participation is declining among men and women between the prime ages of 25 and 54.
Does increased opioid use lead to declines in labor market participation?
The kids are alright: millennials and the economy
A new report suggests that, contrary to popular opinion, millennials are not hurting the economy; in fact, the economy is hurting them.
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Racial and ethnic disparities in access to and use of paid family and medical leave: evidence from four nationally representative datasets
Declining labor turnover in the United States: evidence and implications from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics
A new approach for quality-adjusting PPI microprocessors
Leaving a job during the Great Recession: evidence from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979
Flashback
A snapshot of women’s history in the 80s shows women’s work experience and expectations differed—see an MLR article that reviews this contrast.
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