This report examines the parental leave policies in 21 high-income nations and identifies five "best practices" for parental leave policies. The study shows that the U.S. has the least generous leave policies of the 21 countries examined in the report. The states exhibiting the five best...

This research brief summarizes recent findings by the Center for Economic and Policy Research on job quality and workers' economic security. Using a rigorous methodology that improves on other more standard measures of economic security, we find that one in five Americans in working families...

This report examines the increasing costs facing minimum-wage families in the ninth year without an increase in the minimum wage.

This report debunks the myth that labor market protections, such as unions and unemployment benefits, are responsible for high European unemployment rates.

This report shows that Europe's welfare states have nearly closed the employment gap with respect to the United States for workers aged 25 to 54 years old.

This report looks at total job growth in the United States and the Europe and finds that, between 2000 and 2005, U.S. employment grew more slowly than in the EU.

This report examines changes in the pace of the economic assimilation of immigrants over the last three decades. The evidence suggests that immigrants lagged farther behind U.S.-born workers in 2000, than they had in 1990 and 1980.

Between 1979 and 2004, real gross domestic product (GDP) per person in the United States increased about 60 percent. This report asks how well the U.S. economy has done translating this economic growth into good jobs.

This report finds a steep rise in illegal firings of pro-union workers in the 2000s relative to the last half of the 1990s. It uses published data from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to update an index of the probability that a pro-union worker will be fired in the course of a union...

The widely held view that French economic performance is poor and that French employment performance is catastrophic, flies in the face of the evidence, according to this report.