In March, employers added 236,000 jobs as the economy continued to expand. Job growth is slowing, with most job growth in the past month occurring in the sectors that have been the slowest to recover from the pandemic. The unemployment rate ticked...
Two and a half years later, women are returning to work at pre-pandemic levels. Betsey Stevenson, professor of public policy and economics, commented on what that means for the economy.
"Women had a very tough road to haul with kids working from...
The recession caused by the COVID-19 pandemic hit employment in the service sector hardest, and the workforce is still feeling the effects,
Betsey Stevenson, professor of economics and public policy, told Mother Jones , "The pandemic created a...
Betsey Stevenson called Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch’s argument to the Supreme Court against abortion rights because combining motherhood and work is no longer a challenge “totally absurd," adding, "The idea that abortion has served its...
Following the release of the November jobs report, Justin Wolfers, professor of public policy and economics, broke down what it means in an op-ed in The New York Times.
"This chill in employment might lead one to conclude the economy’s too cold,...
In the debate over the expanded Child Tax Credit, economists disagree on how many parents will leave the labor force. Katherine Michelmore speaks to the Washington Post about her research and why previous estimates are too high.
"We’ve since done...
The U.S. labor force continues to evolve as the economy recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic. Betsey Stevenson, professor of public policy and economics, explained how and why it has transformed in a recent Bloomberg interview.
"We saw labor force...
Businesses and companies need more workers right now, but they can't find them. Patrick Cooney, assistant director of economic mobility at U-M Poverty Solutions, attributed most of the gap between supply and demand of labor to public health.
"Our...
“Much of the gain of economic growth over recent decades has gone to capital rather than labor, and to the highly paid, rather than a broader group of workers,” Wolfers said. “A strong economy — and worker shortages — could help rebalance somewhat,...
“If we don’t get all the workers back, we can never have a V-shaped recovery,” said Stevenson. “Everybody should be worried about making sure that we don’t leave workers...
Stevenson said once parents pull back from work, they can fall behind forever. “You’re just not put on the same kind of track, and you’re not given the same kind of access to promotions and raises.”
According to NPR, Stevenson hopes the pandemic...
The Department of Labor released its employment situation summary report last week, which revealed that women make up more than half of U.S. payroll, for only the second time in history. Betsey Stevenson, professor at the Ford School, analyzed the...
A journal article by Natasha V. Pilkauskas, Jane Waldfogel, and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, "Maternal labor force participation and differences by education in an urban birth cohort study: 1998-2010", was published in the March 2016 edition of Demographic...
The American economy added 223,000 jobs this month, but wages have not risen and labor force participation has fallen to its lowest level since 1977, according to the Department of Labor's June jobs report. As a member of President Obama's Council...
Languages use different systems for classifying nouns. Gender languages assign many — sometimes all — nouns to distinct sex-based categories, masculine and feminine. We construct a new data set, documenting this property for more than four thousand languages which together account for more than 99 percent of the world’s population.
