This report measures the impacts of right-to-work laws on the economy, measured by employment growth, income growth, and migration. Looking backward, it examines what would have happened to state employment and income growth had Oregon enacted right-to-work legislation in 1985, the same year as...

Italian Abstract: Lo sviluppo della tecnologia ha introdotto strumenti informatici di altissimo valore comunicazionale e interattivo: i siti web e i portali del lavoro.Questi ultimi hanno rivoluzionato il modo di operare di tutti i soggetti del mercato del lavoro, apportando innovazioni...

The year’s economy shows an increased unemployment rate, decreased housing values, descending stock markets, decreased interest rates, products’ prices impossible to control from the consumers’ perspective. In the last five years, they have felt the pressure of the crisis’ effects which...

This paper reviews the recent labor-market performance of 21 rich countries, with a focus on Denmark and Germany. Denmark, which was widely seen as one of the world's most successful labor markets before the downturn, has struggled in recent years. Germany, however, has outperformed the rest of...

This paper uses data from the Health and Retirement Study to examine retirement and related labor market outcomes for the Early Boomer cohort, those in their mid-fifties at the onset of the Great Recession. Outcomes are then compared with older cohorts at the same age. The Great Recession...

Unemployment is one of the negative phenomenon which occur with great intensity during the transition. It is encountered in any economy; in our country, the unemployment have reached high proportions. As a global macro-flow, unemployment is generated by cases dealing with the economic situation...

We propose a macroeconomic model with a nonlinear Phillips curve that has a flat slope when inflationary pressures are subdued and steepens when inflationary pressures are elevated. The nonlinear Phillips curve in our model arises due to a quasi-kinked demand schedule for goods produced by...

We propose a macroeconomic model with a nonlinear Phillips curve that has a flat slope when inflationary pressures are subdued and steepens when inflationary pressures are elevated. The nonlinear Phillips curve in our model arises due to a quasi-kinked demand schedule for goods produced by...

Prior to 2020, the Great Recession was the most important macroeconomic shock to the United States economy in generations. Millions lost jobs and homes. At its peak, one in ten workers who wanted a job could not find one. On an annual basis, the economy contracted by more than it had since the...

Prior to 2020, the Great Recession was the most important macroeconomic shock to the United States economy in generations. Millions lost jobs and homes. At its peak, one in ten workers who wanted a job could not find one. On an annual basis, the economy contracted by more than it had since the...