Labor Policy & Unemployment

Podcast Episode

What should we learn from the economic policy response to COVID-19?

Wendy Edelberg, Jason Furman, and David Wessel

Tuesday, May 17, 2022

China

How China’s human capital impacts its national competitiveness

Ryan Hass, Kevin Dong, Jude Blanchette, and Briana Boland

Monday, May 16, 2022

Person looking at receipt in a grocery store.

Labor Policy & Unemployment

Inflation is outpacing wage growth. But there’s still hope for workers.

Harry J. Holzer

Monday, May 16, 2022

Sprawled out on Second Avenue behind his truck, a FEDEX worker sorts out packages to be delivered on Christmas Eve, New York, NY, December 24, 2020. With a resurgence in COVID-19 infections, package shipping services such as FEDEX, UPS and the USPS are expecting to deliver a record number of packages for 2020. (Photo by Anthony Behar/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

Podcast Episode

How workers got left behind in the pandemic while shareholder wealth soared

Molly Kinder and David Dollar

Monday, May 16, 2022

Reports

Essay

Lessons learned from expanded unemployment insurance during COVID-19

Peter Ganong, Fiona Greig, Pascal Noel, Daniel M. Sullivan, and Joseph Vavra

Wednesday, April 27, 2022

retail workers in a warehouse in conversation.

U.S. Economy

Tight labor markets and wage growth in the current economy

Harry J. Holzer

Wednesday, April 13, 2022

A calculator, paperwork, and computer on a table

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Economics

Bolstered balance sheets: Assessing household finances since 2019

Mitchell Barnes, Wendy Edelberg, Sara Estep, and Moriah Macklin

Tuesday, March 22, 2022

Essay

USMCA Forward: Building a more competitive, inclusive, and sustainable North American economy – Labor

Santiago Levy and Oscar Fentanes

Monday, February 28, 2022

Report

Is ‘long Covid’ worsening the labor shortage?

Katie Bach

Tuesday, January 11, 2022

Blog Posts

The Avenue

Tech jobs spread out during the pandemic, but future dispersal isn’t guaranteed

Mark Muro and Yang You

Monday, March 28, 2022

People walk on the esplanade of La Defense, in the financial and business district, west of Paris, France, October 6, 2017. REUTERS/Charles Platiau - RC1B9BB86D30

Up Front

Class Notes: Financial aid and college completion, education-mortality trends, and more

Beyond Deng and Richard V. Reeves

Thursday, March 17, 2022

A farm worker picks table grapes in Maricopa, California, United States, July 24, 2015. California is in the fourth year of a catastrophic drought. Picture taken July 24, 2015. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson

Up Front

Bold labor provisions a bright light under new North American trade pact

Jerry Dias

Monday, February 28, 2022

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Events

2022

Apr

Past Event

Recession remedies: Lessons learned from the US economic policy response to COVID-19

1:30 PM - Thursday Apr 28, 2022 12:00 PM EDT

Profits and the pandemic: Building a more equitable model of capitalism

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT

Expanding climate careers while implementing the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA)

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EST

Online only

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Related Books

Inequality and the Labor Market

Edited by Sharon Block and Benjamin H. Harris

2021

Fit Mind, Fit Job

By OECD

2018

Assessment of Labour Provisions in Trade and Investment Arrangements

By International Labor Office

2016

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Experts

Stephanie Aaronson

Vice President and Director - Economic Studies

Senior Fellow - Economic Studies

Harry J. Holzer

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Economic Studies

John LaFarge Professor of Public Policy, Georgetown University

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Multimedia

Podcast Episode

Introducing Recession Remedies, a podcast about lessons learned from the economic policy response to COVID-19

David Wessel

Wednesday, April 27, 2022

An employee of online retailer Jumia sorts packages for delivery at the company's warehouse in Lagos February 16, 2015. The growth of Africa's middle class has created demand for products that conventional retail struggles to satisfy due to a shortage of malls and grinding traffic in many cities that deters shoppers. The sector is still in its infancy. The internet's contribution to Africa's gross domestic product stood at 1.1 percent in 2013, much lower than other emerging markets. But this could rise to 10 percent, or $300 billion, by 2025, according to a report by consultants McKinsey's & Company. REUTERS/Joe Penney (NIGERIA - Tags: BUSINESS SOCIETY EMPLOYMENT)

Podcast Episode

Lessons from Lagos state in addressing youth unemployment

Tejumola Abisoye and Aloysius Uche Ordu

Wednesday, March 16, 2022

Help wanted sign in a restaurant window in HellÕs Kitchen in New York on Sunday, January 9, 2022. (Photo by Richard B. Levine)No Use Germany.

Podcast Episode

The state of jobs and the US labor market

Stephanie Aaronson and Fred Dews

Friday, February 25, 2022

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