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Labor Markets and Poverty in the US


Labor Unions and American Poverty - EconStor

Unions are a key component of a broader and integrated complex of labor market institutions that govern and equalize wages, constrain employers ...

Local Labor Markets and Child Poverty - Review of Regional Studies

Fisher U.S. Census Bureau, 4700 Silver Hill Road, Washington, DC 20233, email: [email protected] Abstract This study uses modeled Small ...

Poverty in America: Trends and Explanations

We then discuss and evaluate four determinants of changes in the poverty rate that have been advanced in the literature: the impact of labor market ...

Labor markets and pensions - IDB

Informality, working poverty, income inequality, and gender gaps persist in Latin American and Caribbean labor markets, along with 8% of unemployment. These ...

Reservation Labor Markets and American Indian Well-Being

Results suggest that Indian poverty is largely driven by employment and wages. Given this reliance on labor market factors, the second part of the report ...

A Very Uneven Road: US Labor Markets in the Past 30 Years

How did all of these economic forces play out in the U.S. labor market during this time period? In each economic cycle, how did trends in wages, employment and ...

Jobs & Joblessness - Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality

Should those of us who obsessively follow poverty statistics take heart from the positive labor market reports of late? In early July, the Bureau of Labor ...

The 2023 Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Reports: Strong ...

Today's Census Bureau report confirms a pattern seen in other labor market data through 2023: real income grew robustly as inflation eased and ...

Labor Supply: Inside the Tight Labor Market

The labor market is historically tight at the outset of 2023. There are two job openings for every unemployed person, the highest such ratio that has been ...

Poverty and Unemployment in the United States - Lumen Learning

In 2016, the working poor rate, which is the the ratio of the working poor to all individuals in the labor force for at lest 27 weeks or more, was 4.9 percent, ...

Key Country Examples of Labor Market Issues

The table below presents some examples of specific challenges pertaining to labor markets in Africa, Asia and Pacific, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle ...

Employment and Labor Markets | Congressional Budget Office

Higher employment raises households' incomes, raises federal revenues, and reduces federal spending for certain programs. CBO analyzes the causes and ...

The state of the U.S. labor market 4 years after the start of the COVID ...

In weak labor markets, workers feel trapped in their jobs, are unable (and often unwilling) to bargain for better wages or improved working ...

Poverty in Latin America Returned to Pre-Pandemic Levels in 2022 ...

This means that while entering the paid labour market is vital, it is not enough to achieve labour inclusion. Access to productive, well-paid ...

Labor Market Explained: Theories and Who Is Included - Investopedia

Growth in output per hour hasn't translated into similar growth in income per hour in the U.S. Workers have been creating more goods and services per unit of ...

Arepas are not tacos: On the labor markets of Latin America

In this paper, we provide a set of comparable labor market statistics to shed light on the specifics of Latin American labor markets. We first show that ...

Trade, Trade Policy, and Local Labor Market Effects: A Review of ...

labor adjustment, which leads to local labor market, poverty and distribution, and ... and technology on employment in U.S. local labor markets from 1980 to 2007.

The Labor Market - The Economic Lowdown Video Series

In this short video, learn how the laws of supply and demand determine the wage and quantity of labor employed in various labor markets.

1. Labor market and economic trends for young adults

Poverty; Net worth. Economic outcomes for young men. When ... The U.S. job market since the Great Recession. Looking at labor force ...

Young Adult Poverty in Historical Perspective: The Role of Policy ...

Young Adult Poverty in Historical Perspective: The Role of Policy Supports and Early Labor Market Experiences ... Recent research using an ...