Hires, quits, and layoffs exhibit strong, highly nonlinear relationships to employer growth rates in the cross section. Simple statistical models of these relationships greatly improve our ability to account for fluctuations in aggregate worker flows and enable us to construct synthetic measures of hires, separations, quits, and layoffs back to 1990.

Many government employees are paid up to 30 percent more than those in the private sector.

The present U.S. economic recovery will be difficult to sustain without a meaningful increase in labor incomes, yet scant attention is being paid to how little this recovery is benefiting the average worker.

The State of the American Worker 2010 reviews attitudes about jobs and work.

The American economy is experiencing a crisis in long-term unemployment that has enormous human and economic costs.

America's version of capitalism has been much more dynamic than Europe's. Why don't Obama and Romney debate that?

The annual Social Security Trustees Report, released on Monday, confirms that the program is significantly underfunded. After decades of delay, Congress and the next president will need to take steps to restore Social Security's finances and improve Americans' retirement income security. Although it might seem counterintuitive, one positive step toward...

Poll questions asked by leading survey organizations show small changes in job satisfaction over the past quarter-century.