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Labor Markets, Unemployment, and Wages

Economic Trends

• The State of the U.S. Labor Market Recovery
• Employment in Education and Healthcare Services
• Changes in District Employment Are Closely Following the U.S. Average
• A Decade of Hard Times in Places that Rely on Manufacturing Employment
• Moonlighting
• Displaced Workers and the Great Recession
• Regional Differences in Science and Engineering Schooling and Employment
• Delaying Enrollment and College Completion
• The Great Recession’s Impact on Hours Worked and Employment
• Beyond the Unemployment Rate: Long-term Unemployment
• Fourth District Labor Markets: Cleveland?s Puzzling Data
• Weekly Hours Worked: Another Recession Casualty
• Measuring Small Business Employment over the Business Cycle
• Labor Markets: Glass Half Empty…Glass Half Empty
• An Elusive Relation between Unemployment and GDP Growth: Okun’s Law
• Starting Off on the Wrong Foot: Early Careers and High Unemployment
• Job Creation by Small and Large Firms over the Business Cycle
• Some Improvement in the Labor Market
• Emergency Unemployment Compensation and Long-term Unemployment
• Incomes Are Down, Poverty Is Up
• Treading Water
• Labor Market not So Anomalous After All
• Are Underemployed Graduates Displacing Nongraduates?
• Manufacturing Hours and Employment in the Recovery
• What’s Up with the Unemployment Rate?
• Growing Cities, Shrinking Cities
• The U.S. Labor Market Experience in a Global Context
• Who Is Driving the Decline in the Labor Force Participation Rate?
• Fourth District Employment Conditions
• Where Are We in the Labor Market Recovery?
• Recessions, Housing Market Disruptions, and the Mobility of Workers
• The Employment Report and Displaced Workers
• The Great Recession and its Impact on Different Industries
• Has the Beveridge Curve Shifted?
• The Labor Market for Men and Women
• Could Low Educational Attainment Be Slowing the Recovery?
• Recent Manufacturing Employment Growth
• Economic Projections from the April FOMC Meeting
• Some Popular Locales Now Facing Gloomier Labor Market
• Hours and Labor Market Slack
• Ohio’s Labor Market Cycles
• The Employment Situation, January
• The Employment Situation, December
• The Employment Situation
• The Employment Situation, October 2009
• Fourth District Employment Conditions, September 2009
• Alternative Measures of the Unemployment Rate
• The Employment Situation, September 2009
• Fourth District Employment Condtions, August 2009
• Pittsburgh’s Labor Market Performance over the Recession
• The Employment Situation, August 2009
• Fourth District Employment Conditions, July 2009
• The Incidence and Duration of Unemployment over the Business Cycle
• The Employment Situation, July 2009
• Fourth District Employment Conditions, June 2009
• The Employment Situation, June 2009
• The Employment Situation, May 2009
• The Labor Market in this Downturn: A Historical Comparison
• Putting the Current Recession in Perspective
• The Employment Situation, April 2009
• Involuntary Part-Time Workers and the Deficiencies of the Unemployment Rate
• The Employment Situation, March 2009
• The Employment Situation, February 2009
• The Employment Situation, January 2009
• Ohio’s Local Labor Markets
• Labor Turnover
• The Employment Situation, December 2008
• Fourth District Employment Conditions, November 2008
• Ohio’s Business Cycle
• Labor Costs
• Fourth District Employment Conditions, October 2008
• The Employment Situation, November 2008
• The Employment Situation, October 2008
• Comparing Current Payroll Employment Changes with Past Recessions
• Fourth District Employment Conditions, August
• The Employment Situation, September 2008
• Trend Unemployment and What It Says about Unemployment Patterns
• Fourth District Employment Conditions, July
• The Employment Situation, August
• State Labor Markets
• Aggregate Labor Force Participation
• Fourth District Employment Conditions, June
• The Employment Situation, July
• Will We Have Another “Jobless” Recovery?
• Just When Did the Labor Market Begin to Soften?
• The Employment Situation, June
• The Employment Situation, May
• Labor Turnover and Employment in Different U.S. Regions
• Gender Differences in Employment Statistics
• Fourth District Employment Conditions, January
• The Employment Situation, March
• Does the Recent Trend in Labor Demand Presage Recession?
• Preliminary Employment Data Might Miss a Recession Onset
• Fourth District Employment Conditions, December
• The Employment Situation, January
• The Employment Situation, December
• Fourth District Employment Conditions, October
• The Employment Situation, November
• Women in the Labor Force
• The Employment Situation, October
• Union Membership
• Fourth District Employment Conditions, August
• The Employment Situation, September
• Labor Turnover
• Revisions to the Employment Report
• The Employment Situation, August
• Younger Workers and Summertime Employment
• The Employment Situation, July
• How Do Americans Spend Their Time?
• The Employment Situation, June
• Employment and Firm Size over the Business Cycle
• Manufacturing Employment
• The Employment Situation, May
• The Youngest Baby Boomers’ Experience in the Labor Market
• The Employment Situation, April
• Employment Flows and Firm Size
• Labor Costs
• The Employment Situation, March
• Minimum Wage Earners
• Construction Activity and Employment
• Women in the Workforce
• The Employment Situation, February
• The ADP National Employment Report
• Job Creation and Job Destruction
• Extended Mass Layoffs
• The Employment Situation, January
• Employment Cost Index
• Job-to-Job Movers
• The Employment Situation, December
• Labor Turnover
• Fourth District Employment  (PDF)
• Labor Costs  (PDF)
• Employment in the Fourth District  (PDF)
• Labor Markets  (PDF)
• Employment Change  (PDF)
• Labor Markets  (PDF)
• Fourth District Unemployment  (PDF)
• International Unemployment Rates  (PDF)
• Labor Markets  (PDF)
• Age and Earnings  (PDF)
• Earnings Inequality  (PDF)
• Labor Markets  (PDF)
• Job Tenure  (PDF)
• Labor Markets  (PDF)
• Labor Market Conditions, 1923  (PDF)
• Labor Markets  (PDF)
• Labor Market Conditions  (PDF)
• Labor Market Strength  (PDF)
• Labor Markets  (PDF)
• Labor Markets  (PDF)
• The Long-run Employment  (PDF)
• Fourth District Employment and Population Trends  (PDF)
• Labor Markets  (PDF)
• Ohio Employment and Population Trends  (PDF)
• Skills and Unemployment  (PDF)
• The Employment Cost Index  (PDF)
• Labor Markets  (PDF)
• Education and the Labor Force  (PDF)
• Labor Markets  (PDF)
• Worker Compensation and Health Care Costs  (PDF)
• Labor Markets  (PDF)
• Labor Force Growth and the Unemployment Rate  (PDF)
• Labor Markets  (PDF)
• Inflation, Unemployment, and the Phillips Curve  (PDF)
• Labor Markets  (PDF)
• Fourth District Employment  (PDF)
• Higher Education: An International Perspective  (PDF)
• Labor Markets  (PDF)
• Human Capital Investment  (PDF)
• Labor Markets  (PDF)
• Labor Markets  (PDF)
• Labor Markets  (PDF)
• Marriage Penalties and Bonuses  (PDF)
• Unemployment and Job Vacancies  (PDF)
• Exports and Employment  (PDF)
• Labor Markets  (PDF)
• Population and Employment Patterns  (PDF)
• Employment Variability  (PDF)
• Labor Markets  (PDF)
• Labor Productivity  (PDF)
• Employment Costs  (PDF)
• Labor Markets  (PDF)
• Interstate Population Migration  (PDF)
• Intrafirm Trade  (PDF)
• Labor Markets  (PDF)
• State Employment Patterns  (PDF)
• Workplace Fatalities  (PDF)
• Cost-of-Living Adjustments  (PDF)
• Labor Markets  (PDF)
• Employment Cost Index  (PDF)
• Employment Trends  (PDF)
• Labor Markets  (PDF)
• Labor Markets  (PDF)
• The U.S. Workforce  (PDF)
• Labor Markets  (PDF)
• Work Stoppages  (PDF)
• Labor Markets  (PDF)
• U.S. Productivity  (PDF)
• Labor Markets  (PDF)
• Lifetime Non-Asset Income Profiles  (PDF)
• Labor Markets  (PDF)
• Skills and Unemployment  (PDF)
• Labor Markets  (PDF)
• Wage Trends  (PDF)
• Labor Markets  (PDF)
• Labor Markets  (PDF)
• State Labor Trends  (PDF)
• Employment Revisions  (PDF)
• Labor Markets  (PDF)
• Productivity Trends  (PDF)
• The Minimum Wage  (PDF)
• Labor Markets  (PDF)
• Labor Markets  (PDF)
• Labor Markets  (PDF)
• Labor Market Trends  (PDF)
• Labor Markets  (PDF)
• Labor Markets  (PDF)
• Labor Markets  (PDF)

Economic Commentary

• Are We Like Sweden? Recovery in the Labor Market  (PDF)
• Labor’s Declining Share of Income and Rising Inequality  (PDF)
• The College Wage Premium  (PDF)
• An Unstable Okun’s Law, Not the Best Rule of Thumb  (PDF)
• Technology Shocks and Unemployment in the Last Recession  (PDF)
• This Time May Not Be That Different: Labor Markets, the Great Recession and the (Not So Great) Recovery  (PDF)
• Unemployment, Labor Costs, and Recessions: Implications for the Inflation Outlook  (PDF)
• Labor Market Rigidity, Unemployment, and the Great Recession  (PDF)
• High Unemployment after the Recession: Mostly Cyclical, but Adjusting Slowly  (PDF)
• Unemployment after the Recession: A New Natural Rate?  (PDF)
• Are Jobless Recoveries the New Norm?  (PDF)
• Coordination Failures in the Labor Market  (PDF)
• Regional Variation in Job Creation and Destruction  (PDF)
• The Minimum Wage and the Labor Market  (PDF)
• Understanding Unemployment  (PDF)
• Are We Engineering Ourselves Out of Manufacturing Jobs?  (PDF)
• Accounting for the Jobless Recoveries  (PDF)
• Labor Productivity Growth across States  (PDF)
• This Is Bangalore Calling: Hang Up or Speed Dial?  (PDF)
• Per Capita Income Growth and Disparity in the United States, 1929-2003  (PDF)
• Why Are We Losing Manufacturing Jobs?  (PDF)
• Employment Surveys Are Telling the Same (Sad) Story  (PDF)
• Wage and Employer Changes over the Life Cycle  (PDF)
• Another Jobless Recovery?  (PDF)
• Does School Quality Affect Juvenile Crime?  (PDF)
• Why the Optimism?  (PDF)
• Productivity Gains: How Permanent?  (PDF)
• Life-Cycle Income and Consumption Variability  (PDF)
• Are We in a Productivity Boom? Evidence from Multifactor Productivity Growth  (PDF)
• Measuring Total Employment: Are Few Million Workers Important?  (PDF)
• Will Increasing the Minimum Wage Help the Poor?  (PDF)
• Productivity gains during business cycles: what’s normal?  (PDF)
• Productivity measures and the "new economy"  (PDF)
• Government-subsidized training: a plan for prosperity?  (PDF)
• In search of the NAIRU  (PDF)
• Will increasing the minimum wage help the poor?  (PDF)
• Wage inflation and worker uncertainty  (PDF)
• Okun’s law revisited: should we worry about low unemployment?
• Jobs Creation and Government Policy
• Reducing Working Hours: American Workers? Salvation?
• State employment 1995: slowing to a recession?
• Are Wages Inflexible?  (PDF)
• Another look at part-time employment  (PDF)
• The myth of the overworked American  (PDF)
• Fear and loathing in executive pay  (PDF)
• Looking back at slow employment growth  (PDF)
• Are Service-Sector Jobs Inferior?  (PDF)
• NAFTA and the Midwest  (PDF)
• The recent rise in the value of education: market forces at work  (PDF)
• Unbalanced growth and the U.S. productivity slowdown  (PDF)
• How are wages determined?  (PDF)
• What’s Happening to Labor Compensation?  (PDF)
• Labor Cost Differentials: Causes and Consequences  (PDF)
• The Service-Sector Recovery in Cleveland  (PDF)
• Collective Bargaining and Disinflation  (PDF)
• Union Wage Concessions  (PDF)
• Unemployment Insurance: An Old Lesson for the New Federalism?  (PDF)

Policy Discussion Papers

• Estimating GSP and Labor Productivity by State  (PDF)
• Measuring Labor’s Share of Income  (PDF)
• Does Wage Inflation Cause Price Inflation?  (PDF)

Working Papers

• Human Capital in the Inner City  (PDF)
• The Cyclical Behavior of Equilibrium Unemployment and Vacancies across OECD Countries  (PDF)
• The Ins and Outs of Unemployment in the Long Run: Unemployment Flows and the Natural Rate  (PDF)
• Diagnosing Labor Market Search Models: A Multiple-Shock Approach  (PDF)
• Ability Matching and Occupational Choice  (PDF)
• Search Frictions and the Labor Wedge  (PDF)
• The Ins and Outs of Unemployment in the Long Run: A New Estimate for the Natural Rate?  (PDF)
• Re-Examining the Role of Sticky Wages in the U.S. Great Contraction: A Multi-Sectoral Approach  (PDF)
• Job Separations, Heterogeneity, and Earnings Inequality  (PDF)
• Diagnosing Labor Market Search Models: A Multiple-Shock Approach  (PDF)
• Positive and Normative Effects of a Minimum Wage  (PDF)
• On-the-Job Search and Labor Market Reallocation  (PDF)
• Diagnosing Labor Market Search Models: A Multiple-Shock Approach  (PDF)
• Entry, Exit, and Plant-Level Dynamics over the Business Cycle  (PDF)
• Crime and the Labor Market: A Search Model With Optimal Contracts  (PDF)
• How Wages Change: Micro Evidence from the International Wage Flexibility Project  (PDF)
• Understanding the Determinants of Crime  (PDF)
• The Incidence of Nominal and Real Wage Rigidities in Great Britain: 1978-1998  (PDF)
• The Effects of Minimum Wages on the Distribution of Family Incomes: A Nonparametric Analysis  (PDF)
• The UK Labour Force Participation Rate: Business Cycle and Trend Influences  (PDF)
• Ready, Willing, and Able? Measuring Labor Availability in the UK  (PDF)
• How Amenities Affect Job and Wage Choices over the Life Cycle  (PDF)
• Life cycle wage and job changes  (PDF)
• The effects of minimum wages throughout the wage distribution  (PDF)
• The FDICIA and Bank CEOs’ Pay-Performance Relationship: An Empirical Investigation  (PDF)
• Identifying inflation’s grease and sand effects in the labor market  (PDF)
• Work Schedules, Wages, and Employment in a General Equilibrium Model with Team Production  (PDF)
• Rounding in earnings data  (PDF)
• Sectoral wage convergence: a nonparametric distributional analysis  (PDF)
• Macro- and microeconomic consequences of wage rigidity  (PDF)
• Sectoral wage convergence: a nonparametric distributional analysis  (PDF)
• The effects of inflation on wage adjustments in firm-level data: grease or sand?  (PDF)
• Executive Compensation: A Calibration Approach  (PDF)
• Accounting for Earnings Inequality in a Diverse Work Force  (PDF)
• Business Cycles and Aggregate Labor-Market Fluctuations  (PDF)
• HRM Policy and Increasing Inequality in a Salary Survey  (PDF)
• Rising Inequality In A Salary Survey: Another Piece Of The Puzzle  (PDF)
• A Dynamic Analysis Of Recent Changes In The Rate Of Part-Time Employment  (PDF)
• Estimating A Firm’s Age-Productivity Profile Using The Present Value Of Workers’ Earnings  (PDF)
• Magnification effects and acyclical real wages  (PDF)
• On the Valuation of Deposit Institutions  (PDF)
• The Structure of Supervision and Pay in Hospitals  (PDF)
• Do Wage Differences among Employers Last?  (PDF)
• A Two-Sector Implicit Contracting Model with Procyclical Quits and Involuntary Layoffs  (PDF)
• Decomposing TFP Growth in the Presence of Cost Inefficiency, Nonconstant Returns to Scale, and Technological Progress  (PDF)
• TFP Growth, Change in Efficiency, and Technological Progress in the U.S. Airline Industry: 1970 to 1981  (PDF)
• Sources of Wage Dispersion: The Contribution of Interemployer Differentials within Industry  (PDF)
• Turnover Wages and Adverse Selection  (PDF)
• Implicit Contracts, On-the-Job Search and Involuntary Unemployment  (PDF)
• The Structure of the Female/Male Wage Differential: is it Who You Are, What You Do, or Where You Work?  (PDF)
• Estimating Total Factor Productivity in a Generalized Cost System  (PDF)
• Unionization and Cost of Production: Compensation, Productivity, and Factor? ?Use Effects  (PDF)
• Employment and Unemployment Effects of Unions  (PDF)
• Total Factor Productivity and Electric Utilities Regulation  (PDF)
• Stochastic Interest Rates in the Aggregate Life Cycle/Permanent Income Cum Rational Expectations Model  (PDF)

Other Publications

• Diagnosing Labor Market Search Models: A Multiple-Shock Approach
• Knowledge Matters: The Long-Run Determinants of State Income Growth
• Tim Fuerst (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland)  (PDF)
• How Will Unemployment Fare Following the Recession?
• Orgul Demet Ozturk, University of South Carolina  (PDF)
• Marianna Kudlyak, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond  (PDF)
• Jason Faberman, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
• Geographic Redistribution of U.S. Manufacturing and the Role of State Development Policy  (HTM)
• How Useful Is Okun’s Law?
• The Incidence of Nominal and Real Wage Rigidities in Great Britain: 1978–98  (109)
• Francisco Buera, Northwestern University
• How Wages Change: Microevidence from the International Wage Flexibility Project  (879)
• Donghoon Lee, New York University  (PDF)
• Firms’ Wage Adjustments: A Break from the Past?  (PDF)
• Workforce composition and earnings inequality  (PDF)
• Earnings, Education and Experience  (PDF)
• Regional wage convergence and divergence: adjusting wages for cost-of-living differences  (PDF)

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