Labor

• Texas Employment Forecast

  The Texas Employment Forecast indicates that jobs will increase 4.3 percent in 2022, with an 80 percent confidence band of 3.9 to 4.6 percent.

  November 18, 2022

• El Paso aims to end brain drain with global manufacturing, higher-paying jobs

  Dallas Fed President Lorie K. Logan met with El Paso business and community leaders in mid-October in the second stop on her 360° in 365 Listening Tour.

  November 10, 2022

• Texas Employment Forecast

  The Texas Employment Forecast indicates that jobs will increase 4.4 percent in 2022, with an 80 percent confidence band of 3.9 to 4.8 percent.

  October 21, 2022

• Diverse, resilient Houston looking at moving beyond traditional energy base

  Dallas Fed President Lorie K. Logan met with Houston business and community leaders earlier this month in the stop on her 360° in 365 Listening Tour.

  October 20, 2022

• Whose wages are falling behind the least amid surging inflation?

  For a majority of workers, wages didn’t increase as fast as inflation in the 12 months ended in second quarter 2022. Here, we dig deeper to see how outcomes may have differed across groups of workers.

  October 18, 2022

• More workers find their wages falling even further behind inflation

  While the past 25 years have witnessed episodes that show either a greater incidence or larger magnitude of real wage declines, the current time period is unparalleled in terms of the challenge employed workers face.

  October 04, 2022

• Research Department Working Papers

  Consumption and Hours in the United States and Europe

  This paper documents large differences between the United States and Europe in allocations of expenditures and time for both market and home activities.

  September 08, 2022

• Shift to working from home diminished large cities’ productivity premium

  Since the start of the pandemic, the reduced presence of in-office workers has reduced the wage premium attached to large cities and may have diminished the productivity edge of these areas.

  August 30, 2022

• Texas Economy

  Texas Employment Forecast

  The Texas Employment Forecast estimates that jobs will increase 5.2 percent in 2022, with an 80 percent confidence band of 4.5 to 5.8 percent.

  August 19, 2022

• Lowest-income workers see accelerated earnings growth during pandemic

  In many respects, the pandemic has disproportionately harmed low-income workers. Earnings growth, triggered by labor shortages and high turnover rates, could be a rare exception.

  August 08, 2022