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Featured Article
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Measuring labor market concentration using the QCEW

Trent L. Thompson

Many labor markets in the United States are highly concentrated.

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Book Reviews
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Global middle class, happy middle class—from an idea to an ideal

Eric H. Landuyt

In this book, Homi Kharas traces how economic theory influenced by the ancient Greek idea of the good life has informed policies that have brought billions of people into the global middle class.

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Beyond BLS

Teachers don’t strike out with strikes

Eleni X. Karageorge

Strikes are effective in achieving raises and improving working conditions in schools.

The decline of the teaching profession

Lisa N. Huynh

Although teachers are among one of the most prominent and essential occupations in the United States, there has been a rapid decline in interest and prestige for them throughout the past 50 years.

One eye on U.S. coffers, one eye on their own: foreign policy rates and U.S. debt

Harry Nitzberg

The fiscal decisions of the United States can affect central banks internationally.

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Flashback
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September 1998

As we mark National Disability Employment Awareness Month—a September 1998 MLR article presents findings on working-age people with disabilities from 1993.

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