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Workplace Violence in America: Frequency and Effects

The Unemployed and Job Openings: A Data Primer

The Vanishing Middle: Job Polarization and Workers’ Response to the Decline in Middle-Skill Jobs

Sex Differences in Mathematics and Reading Achievement Are Inversely Related

“Resource curse,” poverty and Appalachia; lessons in research, data and politics

Social media in the workplace: Research roundup

When You Just Cannot Get Away: Technology and Work-Life Spillover

College Student Engagement and Early Career Earnings: Differences by Gender, Race/Ethnicity, and Academic Preparation

Improving Employment and Earnings for TANF Recipients

Double Majors: Influences, Identities and Impacts

Veterans, jobs, wages and unemployment issues: Research roundup

The Hard Truth About Telecommuting

Budget Sequestration: Review of Job Loss Estimates

Effects of raising the minimum wage: Research review and key lessons

Why Has Regional Income Convergence in the U.S. Stopped? Zoning and Inequality

Effects of Work on Leadership Development Among First-Year College Students

Polarization of Job Opportunities in the U.S. Labor Market

How Much Protection Does a College Degree Afford?

The End of Farm Labor Abundance

U.S. residents, how they commute and what it costs: Research roundup

Gender Differences in the Salaries of Physician Researchers

Housing Busts and Household Mobility: An Update, 2012

Labor Unions and Life Satisfaction: Evidence from New Data

Community Colleges, Budget Cuts and Jobs: The Impact of Community Colleges on Employment Growth in Rural U.S. Counties, 1976-2004

The Creative Class and the Crisis

Job Strain, Job Insecurity, and Incident Cardiovascular Disease in the Women’s Health Study: Results from a 10-Year Prospective Study

Beyond Guns and God: Understanding the Complexities of the White Working Class in America

Wage and Hour Violations in Urban Labor Markets

Unemployment and Voter Turnout

In post-recession America, poverty rate stays high: Research roundup

New views on urban communities and poverty in the U.S.: Research roundup

The Opt-In Revolution? Contraception and the Gender Gap in Wages

Constrained After College: Student Loans and Early-Career Occupational Choices

Implications of Immigration Policies for U.S. Farm Sector and Workforce

Is Tourism a Low-Income Industry? Evidence from Three Coastal Regions

Women’s Well-being: Ranking America’s Top 25 Metro Areas

Social Networks and the Dynamics of Labour Market Outcomes: Evidence from Refugees Resettled in the U.S.

Self-employment and Local Economic Performance: Evidence from U.S. Counties

Chasing the American Dream: Recent College Graduates and the Great Recession

Where Have All the U.S. Startups and Young Firms Gone?

Estimating the Return to College Selectivity over the Career Using Administrative Earning Data

Money, Benefits and Power: A Test of the Glass Ceiling and Glass Escalator Hypotheses

Early 2000s: A Period of Declining Teen Summer Employment Rates

Pew Research: Gender Reversal on Career Aspirations

The Impact of Race and Interpersonal Dominance on Perceptions of Female Leaders

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