Research and Commentary

Some Good News on April Job Growth

May 3, 2013, Gary Burtless

Bad News in March: Tepid Job Gains and a Shrinking Workforce

April 5, 2013, Gary Burtless

Do Budget Commitments to the Old Shortchange the Young?

March 26, 2013, Gary Burtless

Sizeable Job Gains, but a Long Way from Good Health

March 8, 2013, Gary Burtless

Upward Revisions Offer Brighter Picture of Job Growth

February 1, 2013, Gary Burtless

The Psychological Toll and Economic Fallout of High Unemployment

January 8, 2013, Gary Burtless

Slow but Steady: Job Market Improves in December

January 4, 2013, Gary Burtless

Slow Recovery in the Job Market

December 26, 2012, Gary Burtless

Another Heartening Report on Job Market Progress

November 2, 2012, Gary Burtless

An Upbeat Household Survey and Revisions in Old Payroll Statistics Paint a Brighter Picture of the Job Market

October 5, 2012, Gary Burtless

Growth in Health Consumption and Its Implications for Financing OASDI: An International Perspective

September 2012, Barry P. Bosworth and Gary Burtless

The Job Market Has a Case of the Blahs

September 7, 2012, Gary Burtless

With Health Care Costs, the U.S. Is a Huge Outlier

August 7, 2012, Gary Burtless

Employment Gains Keep Pace with Population Growth, but Leave Job Deficit Unchanged

August 3, 2012, Gary Burtless

Long-Term Unemployment: Anatomy of the Scourge

Third Quarter 2012, Gary Burtless

A Tepid Job Market Recovery Continues

July 6, 2012, Gary Burtless

Spring Swoon in the Job Market Recovery

June 1, 2012, Gary Burtless

High Unemployment: Cyclical or Structural?

May 22, 2012, Gary Burtless

Effects of Employer Health Costs on the Trend and Distribution of Social-Security-Taxable Wages

May 9, 2012, Gary Burtless and Sveta Milusheva

Job Growth: After a Warm Winter, a Cool Spring

May 4, 2012, Gary Burtless

A Check on Job Market Euphoria

April 6, 2012, Gary Burtless

@ Brookings Podcast: Reading the Monthly Jobs Report

March 23, 2012, Gary Burtless

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Gangbuster Month for Temp Employment

March 9, 2012, Gary Burtless

A Partial Remedy for an Ailing Job Market

March 5, 2012, Gary Burtless

Around the Halls: The Republican Primaries and Super Tuesday

March 5, 2012, Gary Burtless, Bill Frenzel, Jonathan Rauch, Audrey Singer, Grover J. "Russ" Whitehurst and Howard Wial