Policymakers terested for a long time in the link between the labor market problems of workers
and the economic status of their families. When workers are either unemployed or limited …

On any given day, some people do not show up at work for one reason or another. These
unscheduled absences can disrupt the work flow and raise costs such as sick pay and the …

The current debate about welfare reform has often hinged on the impact of welfare policies
on the poor. Reliable monitoring of the effects of such reform, including changes in the …

Bad financial decision-making can be due to a combination of lack of financial literacy and
conflicted advice from advisers who know that many people are insensitive to differences in …

Under the current definitions of labor force status, one person can be working in a job (in
retail sales, for example) and be counted as employed because he or she is being paid, while …

The central issue of this paper is analysis and resulting proposals to help unsophisticated
pension participants achieve pension portfolios that match their level of risk aversion when …

A new questionnaire to measure food insecurity and hunger in the US was recently included
as a supplement to the Bureau of the Census' monthly Current Population Survey. The …

… A recent article by Bruce W. Klein and Philip L. Rones, "A Profile of the Working Poor" (… This
updated analysis confirms that the methodology used by Klein and Rones yields much larger …

Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we compare the pay of workers
employed on the minimum wage contour to the pay of similar workers in other jobs. We also …

The US Congress has not changed the retirement age eligibility requirements for pensions
for the US military in nearly 70 years, and retirement ages for the military in other NATO …