Research Archive: Workers and Job Quality, 2004-2013
Not Enough Hours in the Day: Work-Hour Insecurity and a New Approach to Wage and Hour Regulation
Obamacare and a Minimum Wage Hike Pricing Many Unskilled Workers Out of Their Jobs
Employed Family Caregivers Providing Complex Chronic Care
Super-Sizing Public Costs: How Low Wages at Top Fast-Food Chains Leave Taxpayers Footing the Bill
Fast Food, Poverty Wages: The Public Cost of Low-Wage Jobs in the Fast-Food Industry
Beyond the Low Wage Social Contract
To Work With Dignity: The Unfinished March Toward a Decent Minimum Wage
Sylvia A. Allegretto and Steven C. Pitts, Economic Policy Institute, August 2013
Nonstandard Work Schedules and the Well-being of Low-Income Families
Retirement Prospects for the Racially and Ethnically Diverse Older Adult Labor Force
Going Nowhere Fast: Limited Occupational Mobility in the Fast Food Industry
Wanting More but Working Less: Involuntary Part-Time Employment and Economic Vulnerability
The Economic Benefits of Fixing Our Broken Immigration System
Has Education Paid Off for Black Workers?
Keeping Up with the Times: Supporting Family Caregivers with Workplace Leave Policies
Who Would Be Affected by a New Minimum Wage Policy?
A Broken Bargain: Discrimination, Fewer Benefits and More Taxes for LGBT Workers
The Class of 2013: Young Graduates Still Face Dim Job Prospects
Maternity, Paternity, and Adoption Leave in the United States
The Class of 2013: Young Graduates Still Face Dim Job Prospects
How Pay Equity Hurts Women of Color
A Profile of the Working Poor, 2011
America’s Lower-Wage Workforce: Employer and Worker Perspectives
Discredited: How Employment Credit Checks Keep Qualified Workers Out of a Job
Close to Slavery: Guestworker Programs in the United States
Who Earns the Minimum Wage? Suburban Teenages, Not Single Parents
Declining Value of the Federal Minimum Wage is a Major Factor Driving Inequality
100 Days for America’s Workers
How Youth Are Put At Risk by Parents’ Low-Wage Job
Retail’s Hidden Potential: How Raising Wages Would Benefit Workers, the Industry and the Economy Overall
Underemployment in Urban and Rural America, 2005-2012
Building a Competitive Future Right from the Start: How Paid Leave Strengthens 21st Century Families
The State of Working America, 12th Edition
Paid Sick Days: Paid Sick Days Work for U.S. Employees and Employers
Paid Family and Medical Leave: Updated Labor Standards Could Help U.S. Workers Make Ends Meet
Child Care: Families Need More Help to Care for Their Children
Workplace Flexibility: Allowing Employees Some Leeway Is Good for Businesses and the Economy
The Wage Gap for Women: The Consequences of Workplace Pay Inequity for Women in America
New Minimum Wage Bills Would Accelerate Recovery and Improve Job Quality
Where Theft is Legal: Mapping Wage Theft Laws in the 50 States
Who Cares for the Sick Kids? Parents’ Access to Paid Time to Care for a Sick Child
Expecting Better: A State-by-State Analysis of Laws That Help New Parents
The Class of 2012: Labor Market of Young Graduates Remains Grim
The Future of Work: Trends and Challenges for Low-Wage Workers
The Effects of Paid Family and Medical Leave on Employment Stability and Economic Security
Protecting Workers and Their Families with Paid Family Leave and Caregiving Credits
Entry-Level Workers’ Wages Fell in Lost Decade
Low-wage Workers Are Older and Better Educated than Ever
Affording Health Care and Education on the Minimum
The Minimum Wage is Too Damn Low
Tipped Over the Edge: Gender Inequity in the Restaurant Industry
Economic Circumstances of Individuals Who Exhausted Benefits
Lack of Protections for Home Care Workers: Overtime Pay and Minimum Wage
Winning Wage Justice: Talking Points on the Need for Stronger Anti-Wage Theft Laws
Winning Wage Justice: A Summary of Research on Wage and Hour Violations in the United States
Winning Wage Justice: Choosing the Policy Options Right for Your Community
Farm Workers and Immigration Policy
Overlooked and Underpaid: Number of Low-Income Working Families Increases to 10.2 Million
Winter 2011-2012
Do Low-Income Workers Benefit from 401 (k) Plans?
Diners’ Guide 2012: A Consumer Guide on the Working Conditions of American Restaurants
Creating Unemployment: How Congressional Budget Decisions are Putting Americans out of Work and Increasing the Risk of a Second Recession
Worth Working For: Strategies for Turning Bad Jobs into Quality Employment
Losing Middle America: Understanding Job Polarization and Wage Inequality
Where It Really Hurts: Job Losses for Low-Skill Workers by State
Work-Family Conflict: Look to Employers and Communities for Solutions
The Future of Children Journal: Work and Family
Losing Middle America: From Job Polarization to Wage Inequality
Losing Middle America: The Polarization of Jobs in the United States
Improving Job Quality: Direct Care Workers in the U.S.
Less-Educated Continue to Lose Jobs in Recovery-Even in Low-Wage Industries
First to Fall, Last to Climb: Black Workers in the New Economy
Informal and Nonstandard Employment in the United States: Implications for Low-Income Working Families
The Low Wages of Black Immigrants: Wage Penalties for U.S.-Born and Foreign-Born Black Workers
Rural Workers Have Less Access to Paid Sick Days
June 2011
Work Sharing: Effective in Keeping Workers Attached to the Labor Market
Work Sharing: The Quick Route Back to Full Employment
Pay Secrecy and Wage Discrimination
A Future of Low-Paying, Low-Skill Jobs?
Inventory of Farmworkers Issues and Protections
April 2011
A Profile of Young Workers (16–26) in Low-Income Families
’Right-to-Work’ Wrong for New Hampshire
Paid Family Leave: What Could a Federal Paid Leave Insurance Program Look Like?
Poor, Pregnant, and Fired: Caregiver Discrimination Against Low-Wage Workers
States Lead the Way: Paid Family Leave in California
The Sad But True Story of Wages in America
Paid Family Leave: Among Developed Societies, The U.S. is an Outlier
Scheduling Hourly Workers: How Last Minute, “Just-In-Time” Scheduling Practices Are Bad for Workers, Families and Business
Paid Family Leave: Why the Family and Medical Leave Act Fails to Meet the Needs of America’s Working Families
San Francisco’s Paid Sick Leave Ordinance: Outcomes for Employers and Employees
February 2011
Whiter Jobs, Higher Wages: Occupational Segregation and the Lower Wages of Black Men
Economic Policy Institute, February 2011
Waiting for Change: The $2.13 Federal Subminimum Wage
Economic Policy Institute and the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics, February 2011
Behind the Kitchen Door: The Social Impact of Inequality in Miami’s Growing Restaurant Industry
Behind the Kitchen Door: Inequality & Opportunity in Washington, D.C.’s Thriving Restaurant Industry
February 2011
The Compensation Penalty of ‘Right-to-Work’ Laws
Winning Wage Justice: An Advocate’s Guide to State and City Policies to Fight Wage Theft
36 Cents Short – Wage Gap in Sales and Related Occupations Highest of Any Sector
Leaves That Pay: Employer and Worker Experiences With Paid Family Leave in California
44 Million U.S. Workers Lacked Paid Sick Days in 2010: 77 Percent of Food Service Workers Lacked Access
Unity for Dignity: Expanding the Right to Organize to Win Human Rights at Work
The BIG RIG: Poverty, Pollution, and the Misclassification of Truck Drivers at America’s Ports
Why a Domestic Workers Bill of Rights?
Honoring the Work: Measure C Hotel Living Wage’s Impact on Workers in Emeryville
Investigating Wage Theft: A Survey of the States (pdf)Injustice on Our Plates: Immigrant Women in the U.S. Food Industry
Investigating Wage Theft: A Survey of the States (pdf)
Policy Matters Ohio, November 2010
Work Schedule Flexibility in Hourly Jobs: Unanticipated Consequences and Promising Directions (pdf)
working paper of the Work Scheduling Study, University of Chicago, June 2010
The Wage Penalty for State and Local Government Employees in New England (pdf)
Political Economy Research Center and the Center for Economic and Policy Research, September 2010
Recession Hits Workers’ Paychecks: Wage growth has collapsed (pdf)
Economic Policy Institute, August 2010
Where the Jobs Are: A First Look at Private Industry Job Growth and Wages in 2010 (pdf)
Public Attitudes towards and Experiences with Workplace Safety (pdf)
Public Welfare Foundation, August 2010
Bad Jobs in Goods Movement: Warehouse Work in Will County, Illinois (pdf)
The Vulnerable American Worker: Our Contingent Workforce Exposes Weaknesses in the American Social Contract (pdf)
Picked Apart: The Hidden Struggles of Migrant Worker Women in the Maryland Crab Industry (pdf)
Fields of Peril: Child Labor in US Agriculture (pdf)
Just Pay: Improving Wage and Hour Enforcement at the United States Department of Labor (pdf)
Working Without Laws: A Survey of Employment and Labor Law Violations in New York City (pdf)
United States: The Employee Free Choice Act, A Human Rights Imperative
Unions and Upward Mobility for Asian Pacific American Workers
Why Unions Matter (pdf)
Facts and Figures on Florida Farmworkers (pdf)
The National Agricultural Workers Survey
Modern Day Slavery in U.S. Agriculture: Legal Failure and Corporate Complicity (pdf)
Fingers to the Bone: United States Failure to Protect Child Farmworkers