RELAB POLICY NOTE | The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) today reported a 3.2% unemployment rate for workers age 55 and older in July, no change from June.

VIDEO | The result of a failed retirement savings system, according to retirement expert and economist Teresa Ghilarducci in an interview with INET.

RELAB POLICY NOTE | The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) today reported a 3.2% unemployment rate for workers age 55 and older in June, an increase of 0.1 percentage points from May.

PRESENTATION | This presentation shows how Washington's residents will face increasing downward mobility in retirement.

RELAB WORKING PAPER | The number of earnings shocks people experience - job loss, divorce, health emergencies, etc - differs by income level, contributing to inequality in retirement wealth.

RELAB WORKING PAPER | About a quarter of people with long-term care insurance let their policies lapse before they die.

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.

RELAB WORKING PAPER | This paper finds that negative economic shocks cause 401(k) contribution behavior to react in ways consistent with reactions to fear and past trauma.

POLICY NOTE | The reduction in wages resulting from the increase in older workers provides a cautionary note to those advocating delayed retirement as a solution to the retirement savings crisis.

RELAB POLICY NOTE | Inadequate retirement savings will force millions of older Americans to seek work at older ages.

WORLDLY PHILOSOPHER | This week's Worldly Philosopher, Kyle Moore, discusses how the disparity in morbidity between Black and White individuals can result in unequal retirement time and benefits.

WORKING PAPER | Do policies to keep older people working cause wage stagnation?

RELAB POLICY NOTE | The headline unemployment rate for workers aged 55 and older is still low – 3.2% in April, according to today’s jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

RELAB WORKING PAPER | This research was performed pursuant to a grant from the AARP Innovation Challenge.

BRIEF | The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) today reported a 3.4 percent unemployment rate for workers age 55 and older in March, unchanged from February.

WORKING PAPER | This working paper argues that the real relative unit labor cost is the main force that explains the long-run behavior of the real exchange rate.

WORKING PAPER | This paper proposes an entropy-constrained model of induced technical change (ITC) and estimates the innovation possibilities frontier (IPF) of the OECD countries. 

WORKING PAPER | This paper addresses the Marx´s theory of crisis in order to analyze the Great Recession in Spain.

WORKING PAPER | This paper discusses the institutional requirements for fiscal capacity building and the introduction of a Eurozone Treasury.

WORKING PAPER | This paper seeks to theoretically analyse the change in growth patterns in post-reform India.