The low-wage recovery: Industries and jobs after the Great Recession
2014 analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data by the National Employment Law Project that examines how jobs lost in the recession differ from those added in the recovery.
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Research findings on women, business leadership and the “Lehman sisters” hypothesis
2014 review of scholarship in Cambridge Journal of Economics on whether or not having more women in leadership roles can help eliminate risky firm behavior.
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American economic power in decline? Rethinking the data in the context of globalization
December 2013 study in International Studies Quarterly with a new view on the persistence of American power, supported by new data analysis.
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Are U.S. state and local governments on a fiscally sustainable path?
2013 study published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston on the growing gap between the revenues that state and local governments receive and their mandatory long-term obligations.
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Waging war on poverty: Historical trends using the Supplemental Poverty Measure
2014 study for the National Bureau of Economic Research that focuses on the effectiveness of government anti-poverty policies since 1967, using the new measure from the U.S. Census Bureau.
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Are recent college graduates finding good jobs?
2014 study by the Research and Statistics Group of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on employment prospects for recent college graduates and historical patterns.
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U.S. poverty and inequality: 2014 overview and research trends
2014 report from Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality summarizing recent research to paint a fuller picture of the nation’s economic health.
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Housing busts and household mobility: A 2012 update
2012 study from the Federal Reserve Bank and the University of Pennsylvania on how mortgage debt affects people’s ability to move to new areas to seek opportunity.
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Credit rating agencies: The current system and how it can be improved
2013 study in the Annual Review of Financial Economics on the financial ratings agencies, past and ongoing controversies and the state of reform efforts.
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Female involvement and the gender gap in corporate crime
2013 study in American Sociological Review that examines cases of white-collar fraud to better understand gender differences in how crimes were perpetrated
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