Topic: Labor Market

Is Our Wealth Data Right About Young Adults?

Code, publicly-available data, and figures for this post are available on this Github repository. Significant effort in the social sciences is spent on properly measuring economic well-being. Statistics covering income

Vice News on Almost a Third of Young People Have Lost Their Jobs So Far

Almost a Third of Young People Have Lost Their Jobs So Far

Emilio Romero, 23, has mixed feelings about losing his job. It’s a major financial setback, but with two previous hospitalizations for pneumonia, a restaurant was not the safest place for the recent college graduate as the COVID-19 pandemic…

The Lost Generation?

The Great Recession, starting in December 2007, was one of the worst economic contractions in generations. The economy experienced significant increases in the number of people looking for, but unable to find employment. Many researchers have investigated the degree to which recessions…

Re-imagining the Golden State

This is the 2018 annual conference for the Berkeley Institute for Young Americans. The theme is “creating economic opportunity for the next generation.” Click on ‘more information’ for the conference