Labor Policy & Unemployment

Better data needed on job scenario

Tuesday, June 27, 2017

A man fills out a form at a booth at a military veterans' job fair in Carson, California October 3, 2014. U.S. employers ramped up hiring in September and the jobless rate fell to a six-year low, bolstering bets the Federal Reserve will hike interest rates in mid-2015. Friday's report on employment is the most significant gauge of the economy's health ahead of Nov. 4 congressional elections. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT MILITARY) - RTR48UUW

The surprising diversity of America’s jobless adults

Friday, June 23, 2017

Meet the out-of-work

Martha Ross and Natalie Holmes

Thursday, June 22, 2017

Workers on the assembly line replace the back covers of 32-inch television sets.

Will robots make job training (and workers) obsolete? Workforce development in an automating labor market

Harry J. Holzer

Monday, June 19, 2017

Employees work on the manufacturing line at the United Aryan Export Processing Zone textile factory in Nairobi, Kenya April 13, 2017. Picture taken April 13, 2017. REUTERS/Baz Ratner - RTS13BCB

Africa’s Race Against the Machines

Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly

June 16, 2017

Michael Grabinski, two weeks old held by his mother Calee.

It’s time to make paid parental leave happen nationally, and here’s how to do it

Friday, June 16, 2017

A customer uses computer in an internet cafe at Changzhi

Future Development Reads: The future of work for our children and global internet trends

Wolfgang Fengler

Friday, June 16, 2017

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Let’s make labor market institutions work for workers

Tuesday, June 13, 2017

Graduating students arrive for Commencement Exercises at Boston College in Boston, Massachusetts,

Career paths and earnings after college

Ryan Nunn and Fred Dews

Friday, June 9, 2017

Metro area unemployment trends buck the national narrative: A story of convergence, not divergence

Alan Berube and Cecile Murray

Thursday, June 8, 2017