BRIEF | The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) today reported a 3.5% unemployment rate for workers age 55 and older in November, a decrease of 0.2 percentage points from October.

WORKING PAPER | This paper reviews literature and theory on macroeconomics' use of the "natural" interest rate.

RELAB POLICY NOTE | The Bureau of Labor Statistics today reported an unemployment rate of 3.7% for workers aged 55 and older in October. However, the unemployment rate fails to reflect the increasing concentration of older workers in low-wage service jobs.

BRIEF | Guaranteed Retirement Accounts would supplement an expanded Social Security.

ARTICLE | Aleksandr Gevorkyan, assistant professor of economics at St. John’s University, and Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven, New School economics student, published an article in the Review of Development Economics.

WORKING PAPER | This paper builds on recent research focusing on the financialization of GDP.

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.

WORKING PAPER | This paper seeks to assess the effects of an undervalued currency on economic growth.

WORKING PAPER | This paper finds that a combination of policies and shocks were able to significantly depress the personal wealth of the Top 0.1% between 1961-1986.

RELAB POLICY NOTE | This morning’s job report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) calculates a 3.6% unemployment rate for workers age 55 and older in September, an increase of 0.1 percentage points from August.

WORKING PAPER | The United Nation’s 2016 Paris Agreement, negotiated by 195 countries, creates a framework for keeping global temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees celsius. The next task is determining how to pay for it in a fair way.

WORKING PAPER | This paper develops a systemic interpretation of the functioning of capital markets that formally accounts for the observed frequency distribution of Tobin’s q.

WORKING PAPER | This paper motivates the content and analytical significance of processes of “social scaling” in competitive economic settings.

WORKING PAPER | This paper argues that given certain self-definitions and key defining features of economic sociology, Keynes's work can be read and interpreted as a text in economic sociology.

RELAB POLICY NOTE | The historically low headline unemployment rate for older workers - 3.5% in August according to today’s BLS jobs report - is frequently cited as evidence that people can can continue to work if they have inadequate retirement income.

RELAB WORKING PAPER | This paper supports the need to focus not only on ensuring Social Security’s solvency for future generations, but building the program’s ability to support all working Americans.

BRIEF | On August 14, 2016, Financial Times' reporter Alistair Gray describes consumer "fury" over insurance companies' efforts to increase premiums for long-term care, sometimes doubling the cost.

BRIEF | The July unemployment rate for workers over 55 is 3.7%, an increase of 0.2 percentage points from last month.

BRIEF | The unemployment rate for older workers was 3.5% in June, increasing by 0.1 percentage points from May.

RELAB WORKING PAPER | Workers across the country face a retirement crisis. However, workers in Philadelphia are faring worse than average.