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Results: 45 Studies on Labor (of 59 total)

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

Pew Research: Gender Reversal on Career Aspirations

The Promise and Perils of Private Voluntary Regulation: Labor Standards and Work Organization in Two Mexican Garment Factories

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

The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States

U.S. Cities, Skills and Wages

Women in the Labor Force: A Databook

Gender Gap in Executive Compensation: The Role of Female Directors and Chief Executive Officers

Impact of Low-Skilled Immigration on the Youth Labor Market

What Can We Learn From Analyzing Historical Data on Social Security Entitlements?

Minority Vulnerability in Privileged Occupations: African-American Financial Advisers in a Large Financial Services Firm

Private Equity and Employment

Exercise, Physical Activity and Exertion over the Business Cycle

Smallholder Diversification and Income Growth in Zambia

Sexism and Gender Inequality Across 57 Societies

Earnings Inequality and Mobility in the United States: Evidence from Social Security Data Since 1937

Research Supplemental Poverty Measure: 2010: Consumer Income

Can Prominence Matter Even in an Almost Frictionless Market?

Influence and Implications of Climate Change on Coffee Berry Borer and Coffee Production in East Africa

Trends in the Distribution of House Income Between 1979 and 2007

Assessing the Impact of the Great Recession on Income and Poverty Across States

Federal Government Shutdown: Causes, Processes and Effects

Who Never Receives Social Security Benefits?

Census Bureau Graphic: Recession and Median Income

U.S. Census Report: Income, Poverty and Health Insurance

Job Search and Job Finding in a Period of Mass Unemployment

Length of Incarceration and Subsequent Labor Market Outcomes

Education and the Reproduction of Economic Inequality in the U.S.

Manufacturing Jobs: Impact of Energy Prices, Environmental and Labor Rules

Youth Exclusion in Syria: Social, Economic and Institutional Dimensions

Estimating the Impact of Trade and Offshoring on American Workers

STEM: Good Jobs Now and for the Future

Unions, Norms, and the Rise in American Wage Inequality

Women in the Federal Government: Ambitions and Achievements

Maternity Leave and Children’s Cognitive and Behavioral Development

Globalization, Structural Change and Productivity Growth

Unauthorized Immigrant Population: National and State Trends, 2011

Report to the President on Ensuring American Leadership in Advanced Manufacturing

How Ideology Predicts Attitudes toward Immigrants

Missed Opportunity: Transit and Jobs in Metropolitan America

Financially Fragile Households: Evidence and Implications

U.S. Human Trafficking Incidents, 2008-2010

Explaining the International Spread of Casino Gambling

Cracking the Glass Cages? Workplaces and Inequality

Financial Literacy Initiatives: What Works

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