Don't trust low unemployment numbers as proof that the labor market is doing fine—it isn't.
Not Working is about those who can't find full-time work at a decent wage—the …

Following its publication in hardcover, the critically acclaimed Betrayal of Work became one
of the most influential policy books about economic life in America; it was discussed in the …

For centuries we've believed that work was where you learned discipline, initiative, honesty,
self-reliance--in a word, character. A job was also, and not incidentally, the source of your …

Young and unemployed in Scandinavia:–a Nordic comparative study-Google Books Result
Booktopia has Why Some People are More Unemployed Than Others, Strange Paradox of …

" Years after the Great Recession, the economy is still weak, and an unprecedented number
of workers have sunk into long spells of unemployment, increasingly unlikely to get another …

America confronts a jobs crisis that has two faces. The first is obvious when we read the
newspapers or talk with our friends and neighbors: there are simply not enough jobs to go …

How should we characterize the economic period we have now entered? After nearly two
brutal years, the Great Recession appears to be over, at least technically. Yet a return to …

The positive social benefits of low unemployment are many—it helps to reduce poverty and
crime and fosters more stable families and communities. Yet conventional wisdom—born of …

Renowned economist and author of Big Business Tyler Cowen brings a groundbreaking
analysis of capitalism, the job market, and the growing gap between the one percent and …

There is a specter haunting advanced industrial countries: structural unemployment. Recent
years have seen growing concern over declining jobs, and though corporate profits have …