In the absence of a federal paid sick leave (PSL) standard, numerous U.S. states have passed laws to provide workers access to such benefits. These laws may be especially…
July 2025, Paper: Place-based policy in the United States comprises a wide range of government programs that are spread across federal, state, and local agencies and that rely on…
July 2025, Paper: "Fundamental knowledge in the life sciences has consequential implications for medicine and subsequent medical innovations. Using publications in leading life…
Middle-aged and older adults who are employed in precarious, high-strain jobs may face challenges to continued work, risking economic insecurity and poor wellbeing in retirement.…
Algorithmic management (AM)’s impact on worker well-being has led to calls for regulation. However, little is known about the effectiveness and challenges in real-world AM…
Researchers concerned about intergenerational inequalities study absolute and relative mobility (e.g., whether people’s adult incomes exceed their parents’ incomes in dollars or…
May 2025, Paper: "Recent growth accelerations in Africa are characterized by declining shares of the labor force employed in agriculture, increasing labor productivity in…
In the early 2000s, manufacturing-intensive communities in the United States entered a period of economic upheaval that would reshape their labor markets over the next two decades…
We assemble a dataset of the universe of economics and business journal articles published since 1980 to assess differences in the levels and trends of the global distribution of…
July 2025, Paper: "How does improving access to the supply of energy affect regional specialization in manufacturing? We evaluate the long-run employment impacts of pipelines…
