Employment & Unemployment

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...

Friday is the New Saturday makes a compelling, provocative and timely case for societal change. Drawing on an eclectic range of economic theory, hi...

Job satisfaction is a central concept in work and organizational psychology as it is associated with important individual as well as organizational...

Historically high unemployment rates remain a grave concern for American households. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment ...

In an era of continued globalisation and economic-restructuring youth employment constitutes what many commentators regard as one of the key policy...

In an era of continued globalisation and economic-restructuring youth employment constitutes what many commentators regard as one of the key policy...

Restoration of our national forests benefits the environment and creates jobs in rural communities. Increasing the pace of restoration of the Natio...

Women''''s participation in labor force activities has greatly expanded since the end of World War II. Immediately following the war, less than one...

Young adults in the United States have experienced higher rates of unemployment and lower rates of labour force participation than the general popu...

While overall unemployment has declined, the unemployment rate remains nearly twice as high for young people 16 to 19 years of age and nearly three...

Why our workplaces are authoritarian private governments--and why we can't see it One in four American workers says their workplace is a dictators...