Policies and trends around employment impact over 160 million working Americans and their families. Our posts discuss a range of topics including: demographic trends in labor force participation; unemployment; the impact of immigration; minimum wage laws; discrimination; how trade policy affects U.S. jobs; the rise of automation; and employment-focused education and skills programs, among others.
September 27, 2023
The share of white Americans who are employed has been consistently larger than the share of Black Americans with paid jobs. But the gap has narrowed of late.
June 24, 2022
A look at the factors driving greater unionization, and the broader effects of labor unions on wages, corporate profits, firm productivity, and labor demand.
April 15, 2022
Although the number of women in STEM has increased, gender disparities in representation within STEM fields persist and have widened at the undergraduate level.
March 22, 2022
Frontline workers during the COVID pandemic have been disproportionately comprised of less educated and minority workers, especially Hispanics, and immigrants.
March 14, 2022
The decline in jobs that provided middle-class wages for those with less than a college education is an important contributing factor to rising wage inequality.
January 11, 2022
By the end of 2021 there were about 2 million fewer working-age immigrants in the U.S. than there would have been if immigration trends had continued unchanged.
April 1, 2021
The most cited unemployment rate does not capture the full extent of weakness in the labor market — and this is a bigger issue in recessions.
March 10, 2021
Unions can have impacts beyond their members’ labor conditions — affecting wages of nonunion workers, the productivity of firms, and the income distribution.
March 7, 2021
COVID screening at work is now routine. Yet little is known about its impact and whether it could lead to disparate effects by age, race, ethnicity, or gender.