Research At SCEPA
Minimum Wage Policy and Employment in the U.S. and France
WORKING PAPER | This paper compares trends in low pay employment in the US and France.
Unemployment Benefits and Work Incentives
WORKING PAPER | This paper reviews the evidence put forward in support of the orthodox prediction, which has relied on extrapolating from pre-Great Recession conditions.
Undercounting the Underemployed
POLICY NOTE | This paper calls into question standard measures of unemployment.
Institutions, Aggregate Demand and Cross-Country Employment
WORKING PAPER | The central claim of this paper is that a still richer account requires embedding the Keynesian account in a comparative political economy framework.
French and U.S. Labor Market Performance and Employment Adequacy
WORKING PAPER | National labor market performance is conventionally judged on the basis of unemployment and employment rates.
Unemployment Compensation and High European Unemployment
WORKING PAPER | Generous unemployment benefits lie at the heart of the conventional explanation for persistent high unemployment.
U.S. Economic Performance and Alternative Labor Market Indicators
WORKING PAPER | Unemployment and employment rates are the conventional indicators used to measure economic and labor market performance.
Do Surges in Less-Skilled Immigration Have Important Wage Effects?
WORKING PAPER | This paper reviews a small part of a vast professional literature on the labor market effects of new immigrants.
New Labor Market Indicators Issue 2
POLICY NOTE | This report analyzes the results of new indicators from our previous indicator report, for the early 2000s.
New Labor Market Indicators Issue I
POLICY NOTE | This is the first report of the SCEPA Labor Market Indicators (LMI) project.