recession - The New School SCEPA

1. The Duration of U.S. Joblessness and the Great Recession

Working Paper—Time spent unemployed can have a profound impact on the quality of a worker's life, future, and family. SCEPA's latest working paper focuses on gender and racial disparities in the time it takes to find work and how these periods are impacted by unemployment insurance.

2. Economists Weigh In On Covid-19 And Inequality

3. A Policy Agenda for the Biden Administration: Protecting Older Workers & Strengthening Retirement Security

4. Recession Increases Downward Mobility in Retirement: Middle Earners Hit From Both Sides

Brief—Status of Older Workers Report

5. Economic Policies During The COVID-19 Recession

Pandemics are political, social, and health crises. This course examines the economic policy and microeconomics surrounding the economic crisis spurned by the novel-coronavirus. Explore social and economic issues which policy making would need to address in the midst of an unfolding pandemic recession.

6. States that Re-Opened Early are "Trending Poorly"

Brief— SCEPA’s latest policy note by Senior Fellow William M. Rodgers III, former chief economist at the US Department of Labor, highlights a potential headwind to recovery from COVID-19. His findings show that states which lean or are solidly Republican re-opened sooner than Democratic states, and their testing and infection data are “trending poorly.”

7. Over Half of Unemployed Older Workers at Risk of Involuntary Retirement

Brief— 2020 Q2 Status Of Older Workers Report

8. Recession Worsens Inequalities in Job Safety Among Older Workers

Brief— SCEPA's latest research finds that the COVID-19 recession worsens the inequality of job safety among older workers.

9. Older Workers & COVID-19: The Harsh Economic Realities

On Thursday, May 28th SCEPA's Retirement Equity Lab (ReLab) and the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) partnered together for a webinar on the harsh economic effects COVID-19 is having on some of our most vulnerable: older workers.

10. Recession Increases Downward Mobility in Retirement: Middle Earners Hit From Both Sides

Brief— 2020 Q1 Status Of Older Workers Report

11. Think & Drink @ Home: COVID 19 and Its Impact on the Economy

12. Are Central Banks Prepared for the Next Recession?

SCEPA economists worked with the IMF’s Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) on their June 2019 evaluation of the IMF’s advice on unconventional monetary policies.