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July 2017
Nursing and the Great Recession
This article uses data from the Occupational Employment Statistics survey to examine trends in labor market outcomes for registered nurses from 2002 to 2015.
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The future of oil prices: a break with the past?
Two economists examine the history and future of oil prices.
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Raising the minimum wage in three different ways: what are the effects?
The effects on employment of minimum wage increases appear to vary by the way increases were implemented.
The impact of business cycles on job mobility
Researchers find that workers earn more by moving from lower paying to higher paying firms, not from smaller to larger firms, and business downturns tend to stymie moves up the pay ladder.
The impact of technology on labor markets
Researchers start to assess the positive and negative effects of robots on the U.S. labor market.
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Hospital workers: an assessment of occupational injuries and illnesses
Employed workers leaving the labor force: an analysis of recent trends
Consumer Expenditure Surveys Methods Symposium and Microdata Users’ Workshop, July 12–15, 2016
Tradable and nontradable inflation indexes: replicating New Zealand’s tradable indexes with BLS CPI data
Examining price transmission across labor compensation costs, consumer prices, and finished-goods prices
Employment expansion continues but at a slower pace
Flashback
July 26 is the anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act; in a September 1998 MLR article, results reveal the effects that people with disabilities had on labor market rates in 1993.
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