December 03, 2012
Here’s a roundup of labor market research reports released over the past two weeks:
Center for American Progress
Workers Deserve Equal Access to Paid Leave and Workplace Flexibility
Sarah Jane Glynn and Jane Farrell
Working Parents’ Lack of Access to Paid Leave and Workplace Flexibility
Sarah Jane Glynn
Latinos Least Likely to Have Paid Leave or Workplace Flexibility
Sarah Jane Glynn and Jane Farrell
Center for Economic Policy and Research
More Good Jobs
Shawn Fremstad
Debt, Deficits, and Demographics: Why We Can Afford the Social Contract
Dean Baker
Demos
State Guaranteed Retirement Accounts
Teresa Ghilarducci, Robert Hiltonsmith, Lauren Schmitz
Retail’s Hidden Potential: How Raising Wages Would Benefit Workers, the Industry and the Overall Economy
Catherine Ruetschlin
Economic Policy Institute
STEM Labor Shortages? Microsoft Report Distorts Reality About Computing Occupations
Daniel Costa
Employment Policy Research Network
When Chickens Devoured Cows: The Collapse of National Bargaining in the Red Meat Industry and Union Rebuilding in the Meat and Poultry Industry
Jeffery Keefe and Mathias Bolton
Political Economy Research Institute
Reducing Growth to Achieve Environmental Sustainability: The Role of Work Hours
Kyle Knight, Eugene A. Rosa, and Juliet Schor