Topic Job Mobility

The ability to find a job and transition between jobs measures the dynamism of the U.S. labor market. When the labor market is tight and workers are mobile, they are able to find a job that best suits their skills and offers fair rewards. Equitable Growth follows determinants of job mobility to understand how dynamic the labor market is in the U.S. economy.

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Expanding eligibility for Unemployment Insurance helps low-income U.S. workers find better jobs

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AI exposure by U.S. occupations and work tasks and the effect on wages

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Extracting O*NET Features from the NLx Corpus to Build Public Use Aggregate Labor Market Data

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Adoption of generative AI will have different effects across jobs in the U.S. logistics workforce

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Tariffs pose real risks to the U.S. labor market

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Reduced job turnover in small U.S. firms is an overlooked benefit of paid sick leave

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JOLTS Day Graphs: January 2021 Edition

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The alignment of earnings in occupations and at U.S. workplaces increasingly exacerbates earnings inequality

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Consolidated Advantage: New Organizational Dynamics of Wage Inequality

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Jobs report: a year into the coronavirus recession, employment losses have been greatest for Black women workers and Latinx workers

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JOLTS Day Graphs: December 2020 Edition

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The wage divide for Black and Latinx workers goes deeper than a ‘skills gap’ or requiring more credentials

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Employer Concentration and Outside Options

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JOLTS Day Graphs: November 2020 Edition

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JOLTS Day Graphs: October 2020 Edition

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In the United States, it’s not what you know but who your parents know

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JOLTS Day Graphs: September 2020 Edition

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The Intergenerational Transmission of Employers and the Earnings of Young Workers

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