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Featured Article
Featured article image December 2023

An improved estimate of self-employment hours for quarterly labor productivity

Cindy Michelle Cunningham, Stephen M. Miller, Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia, Michael Sverchkov

This article describes two adjustments to self-employment hours that will improve quarterly measures of labor productivity.

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Book Reviews
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A proposal for achieving full employment

Justin Holt

This book presents research on full employment, price stability, and job guarantees.

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Beyond BLS

In the race from COVID-19, who wins?

Maya B. Brandon

Since COVID-19, labor market inequalities between races have become more glaring.

Increases in minimum wage decrease community college enrollment

Eleni X. Karageorge

Researchers find that student enrollment in community colleges decreases when a state increases its minimum wage.

Artificial intelligence and firm-level labor and organizational dynamics

Yavor Ivanchev

Economists examine the effects of AI technologies on firm structure and labor composition.

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