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Research note— New research shows that even before the COVID-19 recession, 55.3 percent of workers age 55 and up in the bottom half of the income distribution were forced to leave the workforce and 32.4 percent in the next 40% of the income distribution – the middle class – were forced out of work in old age.
Brief—2020 Q4 Status of Older Workers Report
Brief— Working longer is often proposed as the solution to the retirement crisis caused by older workers’ lack of retirement assets, but new research from SCEPA's ReLab shows this assumption doesn't match older workers' real experiences in the labor market.
Brief—Status of Older Workers Report
Brief— SCEPA's latest research finds that the COVID-19 recession worsens the inequality of job safety among older workers.
Our ongoing video series, SCEPA Responds, brings together expert economists, professors, fellows, and research associates to discuss current economic issues and challenge economic doctrines that create systemic inequity. The series focuses on areas such as race, monetary and fiscal policy, and economic growth and crisis, to provide insights for working families, older workers, the working poor, minorities, and more.
Last updated July 20, 2020.
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December 2018 Unemployment Report for Workers Over 55
November 2018 Unemployment Report for Workers Over 55
October 2018 Unemployment Report for Workers Over 55
December 2015 Unemployment Report for Workers Over 55
September 2018 Unemployment Report for Workers Over 55
August 2018 Unemployment Report for Workers Over 55
July 2018 Unemployment Report for Workers Over 55
June 2018 Unemployment Report for Workers Over 55
May 2018 Unemployment Report for Workers Over 55
April 2018 Unemployment Report for Workers Over 55
March 2018 Unemployment Report for Workers Over 55
February 2018 Unemployment Report for Workers Over 55
January 2018 Unemployment Report for Workers Over 55
December 2017 Unemployment Report for Workers Over 55
This is the first report of the SCEPA Labor Market Indicators (LMI) project.
This report analyzes the results of new indicators from our previous indicator report, for the early 2000s.
The relationship between productivity growth and unemployment has been debated since the birth of classical economics.
Unemployment and employment rates are the conventional indicators used to measure economic and labor market performance.
National labor market performance is conventionally judged on the basis of unemployment and employment rates.
Generous unemployment benefits lie at the heart of the conventional explanation for persistent high unemployment.
The central claim of this paper is that a still richer account requires embedding the Keynesian account in a comparative political economy framework.
This paper calls into question standard measures of unemployment.
This paper reviews the evidence put forward in support of the orthodox prediction, which has relied on extrapolating from pre-Great Recession conditions.
Brief — January 2015 Unemployment Report for Workers Over 55
Brief — April 2015 Unemployment Report for Workers Over 55
Brief — June 2015 Unemployment Report for Workers Over 55
Brief — July 2015 Unemployment Report for Workers Over 55
Brief — August 2015 Unemployment Report for Workers Over 55
Brief — October 2015 Unemployment Report for Workers Over 55
Brief — January 2016 Unemployment Report for Workers Over 55
Brief — May 2016 Unemployment Report for Workers Over 55
Brief — September 2016 Unemployment Report for Workers Over 55 
December 2014 Unemployment Report for Workers Over 55
November 2014 Unemployment Report for Workers over 55
