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Old jobs, new jobs: How the labor landscape has changed two decades after trade with China opened
Lisa Camner McKay | Senior Writer, Institute
May 19, 2025
Article
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Data drive updates to state unemployment insurance systems
Caryn Mohr | Senior Writer, Community Development and Engagement
May 16, 2025
Article
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“Hot” or not? Learning the right lessons from the labor market after COVID
Simon Mongey | Principal Research Economist
May 15, 2025
Article
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Increasing uncertainty is trickling through the regional economy
Karmi Anna Mattson | Assistant Vice President, Regional Outreach and Public Programs Shannon Lewis | Senior Project Manager
May 13, 2025
Article
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Recessions in Perspective
May 2, 2025
Data
Data map of the Ninth District
Regional Economic Indicators
April 22, 2025
Data
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How low-income women experience the unemployment insurance system
Mary Hogan | Senior Policy Analyst, Community Development and Engagement Amalea Jubara | Research Assistant, Center for Indian Country Development
April 3, 2025
Article
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Administrative processes shape unemployment insurance access
Ayushi Narayan | Economist, Community Development and Engagement
March 18, 2025
Article
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Heterogeneous Effects of School Reopenings on the Labor Supply of Parents of Young School-Age Children
Misty Heggeness | University of Kansas Ana Sofía León | Universidad Diego Portales
February 28, 2025
Research
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How local economic diversity improves worker welfare
Lisa Camner McKay | Senior Writer, Institute
February 26, 2025
Article
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Hiring slows as businesses continue to face high costs
Haley Chinander | Writer/Analyst
February 24, 2025
Data
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Places versus People: The Ins and Outs of Labor Market Adjustment to Globalization
David Autor | Massachusetts Institute of Technology David Dorn | University of Zurich and CEPR Gordon Hanson | Harvard University and NBER Maggie R. Jones | U. S. Census Bureau Bradley Setzler | Pennsylvania State University and NBER
February 11, 2025
Research