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April 2021
This article examines how a series of major hurricanes in 2017 and 2018 affected the estimation of state and metropolitan area payroll employment and how lessons learned from these disasters has provided a playbook for producing estimates during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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A collection of recent research examining the experiences of highly skilled immigrants in the United States and their role in entrepreneurship and innovation.
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Researchers look at why the employment–population ratio has declined over the past two decades.
COVID-19 and consumer spending: How have they affected inflation?
What can data about unemployed people on temporary layoff tell us about the economic recovery from COVID-19?
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During the 1970s, some occupations lost workers and some gained—check out this MLR article from June 1982 that highlights the specific winners and losers.
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