The unemployment rate has risen over half a percentage point since the second quarter of 2023. Individual survey data ...

The fraction of men working in the United States has declined consistently since the 1950s. This has contributed to slower ...

Differences in prices for consumer goods and services across states have been increasing since the early 2010s. Those ...

The Community Development Innovation Review (formerly known as the Community Development Investment Review) was in production ...

What is driving the long-term increase in prime-age men’s labor force nonparticipation? Comparing the experiences of four generations of prime-age men shows ...

A recent visit to Riot Games from Qiana Charles, Vice President and Regional Executive of the SF Fed’s Los Angeles branch, provided insights into the evolving gaming industry, its innovative ...

Researchers are invited to submit papers for the West Coast Workshop in International Finance by Monday, January 13. The workshop will be hosted by SF Fed’s Center for Pacific Basin Studies and the ...

The standard view of housing markets holds that the flexibility of local housing supply—shaped by factors like geography and regulation—strongly affects the response of house prices, house quantities ...

Changes in overall economic conditions may affect real household income levels and also how income is distributed across households. Analysis using annual data from 1967 to 2023 shows that the adverse ...

We use a novel large-scale survey of firms, implemented in Denmark in 2021 and linked to administrative data, to study why firms lay off workers instead of cutting wages. Our questions on layoffs, ...