RELAB WORKING PAPER | This study is the first to examine how major pension proposals will affect Wall Street firms.

WORKING PAPER | Evidence suggests that the introduction of the EMU is associated with a shift from sustainability to unsustainability of external debt accumulation among the Euro countries considered.

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.

POLICY NOTE | Knowing the size of tax expenditures provides a clear understanding of the size of the government and the reasons for $121 billion tax break for pensions.

WORKING PAPER | The United States is in the throes of a public-policy debate about public-sector unionism and collective bargaining.

WORKING PAPER | This paper investigates the relationship between employment and real output in the U.S. economy from 1948 to 2010 at the aggregate level and at major industry-grouping level.

WORKING PAPER | Service industries for which value added is imputed from incomes, are included in Gross Domestic Product, potentially distorting measures of recession and recovery.

RELAB WORKING PAPER | A flawed system that is subsidized by Congress contributes to employers' "race to the bottom" when it comes to retirement benefits.

WORKING PAPER | This paper begins with an informal history of developing country computable general equilibrium models.

POLICY NOTE | Economic policy debate in the United States and other developed economies has been dominated by talk of lowering fiscal deficits through spending reductions.

WORKING PAPER | The paper presents the predominant elements in the worldview of mainstream economists.

POLICY NOTE | This paper calls into question standard measures of unemployment.

WORKING PAPER | The authors offer results of a non-parametric estimate of the US wage- Phillips Curve as a simplified version of the model of the wage-price spiral by Flaschel and Krolzig.

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.

WORKING PAPER | The paper looks at what returns pension funds can realistically deliver in the long term.

RELAB WORKING PAPER | As part of ongoing research into guaranteed retirement accounts (GRA), this working paper seeks to model the size of a present day, federal GRA system in the United States.

WORKING PAPER | Employers and plan sponsors are worried about the lack of preparation their employees have for retirement.

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WORKING PAPER | Structural changes in the macroeconomy, brought about by the economic crisis, have profound implications for the Chinese textile and apparel sector.

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.