Employment & Unemployment

The unemployment rate has greatly increased since the onset of the recession in December 2007, when it measured 5.0%. The rate peaked at 10.1% in O...

The distribution of income in the United States features heavily in congressional discussions about the middle class, program funding and effective...

The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), enacted in 1938, is the federal legislation that establishes the general minimum wage that must be paid to all...

_______'Excellent' Martin Wolf, Financial Times Books of the Year'Essential' Daniel Pink, author of Drive'Wonderful' Martin Ford, author of The Ris...

For the majority of employees in the US and elsewhere, their job is by far their most important property; with jobs providing not only a principal ...

This book explores the possible economic implications of large shifts in the supply of foreign-born, hired farm labour that could result from subst...

The rate of unemployment in the United States has exceeded 8 percent since February 2009, making the past three years the longest stretch of high u...

There is little doubt that significant income inequality persists across as well as within countries, and that wage differential exists between mal...

This book examines the importance of social media and other information technologies in connecting people to job opportunities. Not surprisingly, d...

The economy is recovering from the recession, but employers are still having difficulty filling certain jobs. The Department of Labor''s (DOL) Work...

U.S. employers in various industries argue that they need to hire foreign workers to perform lower-skilled jobs, while others maintain that many of...

In response to continuing high rates of unemployment and a weak economy, President Obama announced his American Jobs Act on September 8, 2011. As s...

Many recipients of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and other low-income individuals find or keep jobs for a while, but far fewer rem...

How can federal programs support low-income and low-skilled individuals find and keep employment? Searching for a job is a universal experience for...

Although the economic recession that began in December 2007 has officially ended, unemployment rates still remain close to 10%. Especially hard hit...

Originally self-published in 1985, Paul Graham's renowned series, 'Beyond Caring', was made in the waiting rooms and corridors of the Social Securi...

The 116th Congress recently enacted benefits related to two unemployment insurance (UI) programs: Unemployment Compensation (UC) and Disaster Unemp...

The idea was simple: pack a suitcase, go to another city where you have no connections and try to find a job, anonymously. That was the idea that t...

Millions of young people-and increasingly some not-so-young people-now work as interns. They famously shuttle coffee in a thousand magazine offices...

Is there too much inequality? We are witnessing for the first time in many decades a vigorous public debate in the United States and many European ...

One of the most persistent and important, but often ignored, trends contemporary market economies continues to be the ownership of firms by their e...

There is a specter haunting advanced industrial countries: structural unemployment. Recent years have seen growing concern over declining jobs, and...

The call center industry is booming in the Philippines. Around the year 2005, the country overtook India as the world's voice capital, and industry...

In 2008 the world experienced the Great Recession, a financial and economic crisis of enormous proportions and the greatest economic downturn since...

Why our workplaces are authoritarian private governmentsand why we cant see itOne in four American workers says their workplace is a dictatorship. ...

There is a specter haunting advanced industrial countries: structural unemployment. Recent years have seen growing concern over declining jobs, and...

This thought-provoking and challenging book is about sex and profits. It is not a book about Women's Lib, but it is a book that will lead to the re...