Recent research points to a shift in recruiting behavior by employers as an important factor in the distressing U.S. jobs situation. Employers have influenced the pace of job filling by the intensity of their recruiting efforts.

Americans spend almost 50 percent more time in paid employment than do Western Europeans. This gap in work time emerged in the 1970s and has grown to dramatic levels in recent decades. What factors cause this large discrepancy in lifestyles? To what extent can this be explained by differences in...

The Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey is an innovative data program that presents measurement issues that are imperfectly understood.

Even though private equity represents only a small fraction of the financial assets in the American economy, its importance to capital formation and economic growth and the level of controversy it generates is large.

Congress should not focus only on creating jobs in small businesses; instead, it should emphasize creating jobs at firms of all sizes.

Alan D. Viard and contributors offer an invaluable guide for policymakers facing important decisions about a variety of taxes.

A list of AEI scholars whoare available for comment on midterm elections and on issues affecting the election.

The New Deal failed to reduce unemployment, and the policies of the Obama administration and the Democratic Congress since the financial crisis look to be a repeat performance.