New research from the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics is the first evaluation of local policies in Chicago, District of Columbia, Oakland, San Francisco, San Jose, and Seattle.
New research shows that teachers’ wages and compensation continue to fall relative to comparable workers.
New study concludes that eroding job quality should be as serious a concern as job loss – and identifies public policies to ensure a future of good jobs in the industry.
University of California, Berkeley labor experts are available as media resources for Labor Day 2018 stories
A new interactive data explorer from the Labor Center at University of California, Berkeley offers an in-depth look at the people who make up California’s low-wage workforce.
University of California, Berkeley labor experts are available as media resources on the upcoming Supreme Court decision in Janus v. AFSCME.
A new study from UC Berkeley’s Center for Labor Research and Education shows that California’s unions have had a strong impact on working families, regardless of union status, through their engagement in public policy.
CONTACT: Jacqueline Sullivan | IRLE Media Relations jsullivan@berkeley.edu, (510) 604-2289 Berkeley – More than a decade after the start of the worst recession since the Great Depression, the U.S. economy
A new study from UC Berkeley’s Center for Labor Research and Education shows that workers in California have higher wages and greater access to benefits when covered by a union contract, and those who earn the least in non-union workplaces — women, people of color, and immigrants — gain the most.
A new study from UC Berkeley’s Center for Labor Research and Education shows that by bargaining together through unions, California workers increase their earnings by approximately $5,800 per worker annually, for a combined total of $18.5 billion.
Contact: Jackie Sullivan, (510) 604-2289, IRLE Communications, UC Berkeley New York’s policy of paying tipped workers a subminimum wage is under scrutiny, with a series of hearings called by Governor
Connecticut retail and food service workers are struggling with unstable, unpredictable work schedules, according to new research by the Shift Project at the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) at the University of California, Berkeley. Most of the 438 workers surveyed say they don’t like the uncertainty and want more stable scheduling.
A new research brief by the Shift Project includes first-ever data that provides a window into Philadelphia retail workers’ lives. The majority of those surveyed experience schedule instability and unpredictability, which create hardships and stress for themselves and their families.
Research from the University of California, Berkeley’s Center for Labor Research and Education at IRLE measuring the impacts of numerous progressive California policies enacted over the last six years finds no negative effects on employment and economic growth.
A senior thesis by a University of California, Berkeley, student raised eyebrows recently when the New York Times shared her findings that a popular website for those posting and seeking jobs in economics was rife with sexist and crude terminology.
In a new report, researchers from the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment at UC Berkeley reveal how states and cities are closing the gap in compensation between equally qualified pre-K teachers and kindergarten and elementary school teachers.
A new study from the UC Berkeley Labor Center’s Green Economy Program has found that California’s disadvantaged and underrepresented workers have been able to access career-track jobs in the construction of renewable energy power plants.
According to the first comprehensive study of the economic effects of climate programs in California’s Inland Empire, Riverside and San Bernardino counties experienced a net benefit of $9.1 billion in direct economic activity and 41,000 jobs from 2010 through 2016.
Including letters of recommendation as part of the application process positively impacted the enrollment of underrepresented students at the University of California, Berkeley, according to a new study from the California Policy Lab.
Seattle’s groundbreaking minimum wage law is raising pay for low-paid workers without hurting jobs, according to a new report released today by University of California, Berkeley economists. The report, which analyzes employment data before and after the law went into effect, finds no evidence of job loss in the city’s restaurant industry, even as pay reached $13 for workers in large companies.
According to a new data brief from UC Berkeley’s Center for Labor Research and Education, more than one million small business employees and over half a million self-employed Californians benefitted from the health insurance options made available under the ACA. Uninsurance among these groups fell sharply from one in five lacking insurance in 2013 to less than one in three in 2015.
Teachers working with 3-5-year-olds in pre-kindergarten programs across the U.S. are often required to have the same training and education as elementary school teachers while receiving significantly lower pay and benefits.
For the first time, economists at the University of California, Berkeley have measured the likely pay and job impacts of California’s scheduled statewide $15 minimum wage increase by 2023.
The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is the most effective poverty-fighting program for children in the U.S., according to research from the University of California Berkeley.
New study shows the severity of economic losses in California tied to repealing the ACA, especially in the Central Valley where residents rely heavily on public health insurance.