Publications

New Working Papers in the research program on employment and labor market structure address nonparticipation in welfare programs by the working poor, trends in workplace skill requirements, and a structural approach to wage determination. A series of papers focusing on federal buget policy includes an analysis of biennial budgeting.

Contents: New Working Papers: The Working Poor and Welfare Recipiency * Technology and the Demand for Skills * Unemployment, Inflation, and the Job Structure * Biennial Budgeting for the Federal Government: Lessons from the States * Reforming Unemployment Insurance: Toward Greater Employment *Seminars: How Credible Are Estimates of the Economic Returns to Schooling? * American Standards of Living * R&D and Innovation * New Public Policy Brief: Revisiting Bretton Woods * Institute News: Two New Members of the Board of Advisers * New Book