RELAB POLICY NOTE | The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) today reported a 3.2% unemployment rate for workers age 55 and older in March, a rate unchanged since February.

RELAB POLICY NOTE | Older workers have not been able to save adequately for retirement.

PRESENTATION | Economist Willi Semmler, director of SCEPA’s Economics of Climate Change project, gave a presentation in Sorbonne, Paris, as part of the Financial Regulation Lab (LabEx ReFi).  

RELAB POLICY NOTE | The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) today reported a 3.2% unemployment rate for workers age 55 and older in February, an increase of 0.2 percentage points from January.

WORKING PAPER | Conventional economic analysis depicts the jobs market as finite, assuming immigration lowers wages and job prospects for American workers.

RELAB POLICY NOTE | Inadequate retirement accounts will cause 8.5 million middle-class older workers and their spouses to be downwardly mobile, falling into poverty or near poverty in their old age.

RELAB POLICY NOTE | President Trump in his State of the Union address highlighted the country’s falling unemployment and rising wages.

RELAB POLICY NOTE | The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported an unemployment rate of 3.3% for workers age 55 and older for the month of December, an increase of 0.2 percentage points from November.

RELAB POLICY NOTE | While heralding the bipartisan effort and innovation of active states, ReLab's new report, "State Retirement Reform: Lifting Up Best Practices," seeks to broaden options for future legislation by raising up best practices from the movement's early leaders.

RELAB WORKING PAPER | The recent proliferation of state level retirement reform proposals indicates a broad recognition of the looming retirement crisis and suggests that political will for reform is present.

RELAB POLICY NOTE | The Bureau of Labor Statistics today reported a 3.1% unemployment rate for workers age 55 and older in November, a rate unchanged from October.

RELAB POLICY NOTE | Financialized retirement systems, like defined contribution (DC) plans in the U.S., shift market risk away from employers and governments to individuals.

ARTICLE | For many, 401(k) accounts are used both to save for retirement and self-insure against income shocks prior to retirement.

RELAB POLICY NOTE | The Bureau of Labor Statistics today reported a 3.2% unemployment rate for workers age 55 and older in October, a rate unchanged from September.

RELAB POLICY NOTE | The Bureau of Labor Statistics today reported a 3.2% unemployment rate for workers age 55 and older in September, a rate unchanged from August.

WORKING PAPER | This paper explores how climate damage affects the long-run evolution of the economy.

WORKING PAPER | How does effective demand, productivity growth, income, and wealth distributions influence and constrain the economy? 

WORKING PAPER | This working paper sheds light on the various theories which attempt to explain the relationship between economic growth and climate change.

RELAB POLICY NOTE | Today the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported a 3.2% unemployment rate for workers ages 55 and older in August, no change from July.

RELAB POLICY NOTE | One-third of older workers have neither retirement savings through a 401(k) or IRA, nor a defined benefit (DB) pension.