Employment Legislation

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Feb 10, 2026

Just Work: Access to Worker Protections in the Changing World of Work

The authors analyze how the changing nature of employment is affecting workers' access to needed protections, appropriate remedies when those protections fail, and forms of insurance linked to traditional jobs.
Research

Apr 11, 2024

Gauging What Employers Think: Lessons Learned from Fielding the 2022 Department of Defense National Survey of Employers

In this companion report, the authors describe lessons learned from developing and administering the 2022 Department of Defense National Survey of Employers, describe the implications of the lessons, and make recommendations to inform future efforts.
Research

Apr 11, 2024

Understanding and Improving Civilian Employer Experiences with Guard and Reserve Duty

In this report, researchers update and extend an earlier study to document the views of employers of reserve component members and reevaluate Department of Defense policy, federal legislation, and state legislation.
Research

Nov 30, 2023

Intellectual, Developmental, and Physical Disabilities in U.S. Legal Settings: A Scoping Review

The authors conducted a scoping review to assess the current state of the literature related to individuals with disabilities who interact with the criminal and civil legal systems, with the goal of developing a future research agenda.
Research

Nov 30, 2023

Intellectual, Developmental, and Physical Disabilities in U.S. Legal Settings: Perspectives from People with Relevant Experience

The authors conducted interviews with professionals and people with lived experience to understand what it is like to interact with the civil or criminal legal system while having a disability, with the goal of developing a future research agenda.
Research

Nov 30, 2023

Intellectual, Developmental, and Physical Disabilities in U.S. Legal Settings: A Proposed Agenda for Future Research

In this report, the authors propose recommendations to guide researchers as they examine the experience of individuals with disabilities and their interactions with the U.S. criminal and civil legal systems.
Commentary

Jun 9, 2023

Your Health Insurance May Not Be As Good As Your State Requires—and It's Perfectly Legal

Massachusetts has a law to ensure ease of access to birth control pills, saying there should be no copays and women can fill a 12-month prescription at once. Infertility care has similar protections. But many health plans don't have to comply with state laws because they are “self-insured.”
Research

Feb 15, 2023

Harnessing Mobile Technology to Enable U.S. Personnel Vetting

The authors examined how U.S. government vetting could be enhanced with mobile technologies and platforms for the Security, Suitability, and Credentialing Performance Accountability Council Program Management Office.
Commentary

Aug 2, 2022

Got a Labor Shortage? Make It Easier to Work

If the United States wants to avoid a long-term worker shortage, it should look to what policy can—but has failed to—fully address. We have a long history using carrots and sticks, but this is a problem we may not be able to cajole or punish our way out of. Finding workers can be as simple as giving more people a chance to work.
Commentary

Apr 4, 2022

The Marriage Plot

For more than a quarter century, the U.S. government has been sending an unmistakable message to poor, single mothers: Get married. If America genuinely wants to address poverty and achieve gender equality, this has to change.
Commentary

Sep 15, 2021

Will Unemployment Insurance Be Reformed? Ask Businesses, Not Workers

The expiration of pandemic benefits points to the flaw at the heart of unemployment insurance: The constituency that pays for benefits isn't the constituency who receives them. Lasting reform to the unemployment insurance system will mean finding a way to benefit employers directly.
Commentary

Mar 18, 2021

Will States Take the Wrong Lesson About Unemployment Insurance's Failings?

By shoring up all state-run Unemployment Insurance programs equally, Congress set a precedent that it will intervene to raise benefits at no cost to state trust funds. From the states' perspective, why hike taxes on businesses to maintain robust unemployment benefits if Congress will step in when the economy goes south?

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Just Work: Access to Worker Protections in the Changing World of Work

Gauging What Employers Think: Lessons Learned from Fielding the 2022 Department of Defense National Survey of Employers

Understanding and Improving Civilian Employer Experiences with Guard and Reserve Duty

Intellectual, Developmental, and Physical Disabilities in U.S. Legal Settings: A Scoping Review

Intellectual, Developmental, and Physical Disabilities in U.S. Legal Settings: Perspectives from People with Relevant Experience

Intellectual, Developmental, and Physical Disabilities in U.S. Legal Settings: A Proposed Agenda for Future Research

Your Health Insurance May Not Be As Good As Your State Requires—and It's Perfectly Legal

Harnessing Mobile Technology to Enable U.S. Personnel Vetting

Got a Labor Shortage? Make It Easier to Work

The Marriage Plot

Will Unemployment Insurance Be Reformed? Ask Businesses, Not Workers

Will States Take the Wrong Lesson About Unemployment Insurance's Failings?

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Explore RAND’s Work on this Topic

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Just Work: Access to Worker Protections in the Changing World of Work

Gauging What Employers Think: Lessons Learned from Fielding the 2022 Department of Defense National Survey of Employers

Understanding and Improving Civilian Employer Experiences with Guard and Reserve Duty

Intellectual, Developmental, and Physical Disabilities in U.S. Legal Settings: A Scoping Review

Intellectual, Developmental, and Physical Disabilities in U.S. Legal Settings: Perspectives from People with Relevant Experience

Intellectual, Developmental, and Physical Disabilities in U.S. Legal Settings: A Proposed Agenda for Future Research

Your Health Insurance May Not Be As Good As Your State Requires—and It's Perfectly Legal

Harnessing Mobile Technology to Enable U.S. Personnel Vetting

Got a Labor Shortage? Make It Easier to Work

The Marriage Plot

Will Unemployment Insurance Be Reformed? Ask Businesses, Not Workers

Will States Take the Wrong Lesson About Unemployment Insurance's Failings?

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