Research At SCEPA
Racial Disparities In Stress-Related Morbidity
RELAB ARTICLE | The stratification economics framework may best clarify the causes of racial health disparities and help to develop policy solutions.
Racial Mortality Gap Still High: More Blacks Than Whites Will Die Before Retiring
RELAB POLICY NOTE | The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) today reported a 3.1% unemployment rate for workers age 55 and older in May, a decrease of 0.1 percentage points from April.
Racial Gap in Older Workers’ Physical Demands on the Job Persists At All Wage Levels
BRIEF | The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) today reported a 3.5% unemployment rate for workers ages 55 and older in January, a decrease of 0.1 percentage points from December.
Gender and Racial Disparities in Physical Job Demands of Older Workers
RELAB POLICY NOTE | Policy proposals to cut Social Security benefits by increasing the normal retirement age from 67 to as high as 76 ignore the persistent physical demands older workers face.
Long-Term Unemployment Rate Increased Faster Among Older Jobless Women than Older Jobless Men
BRIEF | The average unemployment rate is down. But it is up for older workers. Today’s jobs report from the Department of Labor reports an unemployment rate of 3.7% for workers over 55 in January, up from 3.2% last month, an increase of 0.5 percentage points.
Older Unemployed Workers Take Longer to Find Jobs than Younger Workers
RELAB POLICY NOTE | The unemployment rate is falling for workers in all age groups. For workers over 55, today’s jobs report from the Department of Labor shows an unemployment rate of 3.2% in December, a decrease of 0.5 percentage points from last month.
Unemployment Rate for Black Older Workers Nearly Doubled that of Whites
BRIEF | Chris Christie and his proposal to raise the retirement age are officially part of the 2016 presidential campaign.
The Racial Morbidity Gap
RELAB POLICY NOTE | This policy note illustrates that the average black American will experience physical limitations before the normal retirement age of 67.
Defeminization, Occupational Segmentation and Manufacturing Employment
WORKING PAPER | This paper investigates whether stylized facts relating globalization with the "feminization" of labor still holds, or if de-feminization of manufacturing employment in developing countries has set in.