IRLE Research Awards are open through Friday. Apply now for 2024-25 research funding.

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Job opening at the Labor Center: Policy Researcher for the Green Economy Program. Learn more and please share!
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Hills & valleys over these 10 years. Honored to receive this award: 🙏🏿 & 🙌🏿

Congrats to IRLE Faculty Affiliate, Dr. Travis Bristol who was selected as a winner of the 2024 excellence in education research from the The American Educational Research Association (AERA) AERA Travis J. Bristol

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Power and Participation in Negotiations! 4-session workshop on the “why” and “how” of moving toward high-power, high-participation negotiations. You will use McAlevey and Lawlor's book to understand & discuss shifting the way you negotiate. Learn more:
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No, California's wage bump for fast food workers isn't doomsday for restaurants. Here's why calmatters.org/commentary/202…

IRLE Annual Research Awards Applications are now open. UC Berkeley Faculty & Grad Students pursuing employment, labor, and equity related research are encouraged to apply!

UC grad student or faculty member doing policy-relevant research w/ CA admin data? CPL graduate fellowships can support your work! Applications due March 31st: capolicylab.org/data-resources… #UCDavis #UCIrvine #UCRiverside #UCSantaCruz #UCMerced #UCLA #UCBerkeley #UCSB #UCSF #UCSD

Join us every Wednesday at noon for our Visiting Scholar Seminar Series with pizza.

Hear this week from Paola Langer discuss 'Trump rallies increase adverse birth outcomes among infants born to foreign-born Black, Hispanic and Asian & Pacific Islander birthing parents.' 🍕📈

Come work with us! Several jobs open including this critical research role.

New Report: Transportation Network Company Driver Earnings Analysis and Pay Standard Options irle.berkeley.edu/publications/r… from James Parrott & Michael Reich IRLE UC Berkeley

What are the effects of $15 minimum wages? Check out the new version of 'Minimum Wage Effects and Monopsony Explanations.'

Or come hear Michael Reich's presentation on Friday, March 1, 3:30 pm at the Eastern Economics Association meetings in Boston.

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U.C. graduate student focused on policy-relevant research? California Policy Lab's Seed Grants + Graduate Fellowships can support your work.
The next application deadline is March 31st:
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Interview with labor organizer, teacher & strategist Jane McAlevey on what YOU & all of us need to do NOW to win more & win better. Hosted by Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung and Organizing for Power. Jane McAlevey Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Preethy Sivakumar Jollene 🍞🌹 Ethan Earle
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Join us every Wednesday at noon for our Visiting Scholar Seminar Series with pizza.

Hear this week from Damian Osterwalder as he discusses 'Optimal Unemployment Insurance with Repeated Unemployment.' 🍕📈

This Friday! Don’t miss a policy discussion between Damon Jones of Harris Policy UChicago | Stone Center on Inequality & Mobility and Danny Yagan of Berkeley Economics, both newly returned to academia from federal government service.

🧑‍💻 Register for the webinar: buff.ly/46oaKxr

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Join us every Wednesday at noon for our Visiting Scholar Seminar Series (with pizza!🍕)

Hear this week from Antoine Germain as he presents 'Why do governments mandate holidays?'

🗓️Reminder to join us Thursday as Professors Hilary Hoynes & Adam Leive discuss what the evidence can tell us about how nutritional and income supports benefit families, and what role work requirements play in these benefits.
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Join us at the Labor Center! We have two open positions to work on our leadership development programs:
--Senior Trainer
--Program Coordinator
Learn more and please spread the word!
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Join us every Wednesday at noon for our Visiting Scholar Seminar Series (with pizza!🍕)

Hear this week from Antoine Germain as he dives into 'Basic Income versus Fairness: Redistribution
with Inactive Agents.'