Research

Publications

Abraham, Katharine G., Brad Hershbein, Susan N. Houseman, and Beth C. Truesdale. 2024. “The Independent Contractor Workforce: New Evidence on Its Size and Composition and Ways to Improve Its Measurement in Household Surveys.” ILR Review, 77(3), 336-365. doi:10.1177/00197939241226945

  • Upjohn Institute working paper
  • Upjohn Institute policy brief: How Many Independent Contractors Are There and Who Works in These Jobs?

Asquith, Brian, Yuci Chen, Marcus Dillender, Kevin Hollenbeck, and Beth C. Truesdale. 2024. “A Study of Claim Resolution Settlement Agreements: Final Report.” Upjohn Institute Technical Reports. https://doi.org/10.17848/tr24-048.

O’Leary, Christopher J., Kevin Doyle, Ben Damerow, Kenneth J. Kline, Beth C. Truesdale, Salomon Orellana, Randall W. Eberts, Amy Meyers, Anna Wilcoxson, and Scott Powell. 2024. “Predictive Analytics Supporting Labor Market Success: A Career Explorer for Job Seekers and Workforce Professionals in Michigan.” Economic Development Quarterly, August, 08912424241271163. https://doi.org/10.1177/08912424241271163.

Ghilarducci, Teresa, and Beth C. Truesdale. 2023. “The False Promises of Working Longer.” The Journal of Retirement 11 (1): 22–30. https://doi.org/10.3905/jor.2023.1.136.

Berkman, Lisa F., and Beth C. Truesdale. 2023. “Working Longer and Population Aging in the U.S.: Why Delayed Retirement Isn’t a Practical Solution for Many.” The Journal of the Economics of Ageing 24: 100438.

Lisa F. Berkman and Beth C. Truesdale, eds. 2022. Overtime: America’s Aging Workforce and the Future of Working Longer. Oxford University Press.  doi:10.1093/oso/9780197512067.001.0001

Truesdale, Beth C., Lisa F. Berkman, and Alexandra Mitukiewicz. 2022. “When I’m 54: Working Longer Starts Younger Than We Think.”  In Overtime: America’s Aging Workforce and the Future of Working Longer. Oxford University Press.  doi:10.1093/oso/9780197512067.003.0002.

  • Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies working paper

Berkman, Lisa F., and Beth C. Truesdale. 2022. “Is Working Longer in Jeopardy?” In Overtime: America’s Aging Workforce and the Future of Working Longer. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oso/9780197512067.003.0001.

Berkman, Lisa F., Beth C. Truesdale, and Alexandra Mitukiewicz. 2022. “What Is the Way Forward? American Policy and Working Longer.” In Overtime: America’s Aging Workforce and the Future of Working Longer. Oxford University Press.  doi:10.1093/oso/9780197512067.003.0015.

Beth C. Truesdale. 2020. “Better Jobs, Longer Working Lives: Proposals to Improve the Low-wage Labor Market for Older Workers.”  Brookings Institution.

Beth C. Truesdale and Christopher Jencks.  2016.  “The Health Effects of Income Inequality: Averages and Disparities.”  Annual Review of Public Health 37(1): 413-30.

Beth C. Truesdale and Christopher Jencks.  2016.  “Income Inequality and Health: Strong Theories, Weaker Evidence.”  Frontiers in Public Health Services and Systems Research 5(5):30-37. DOI: https://doi.org/10.13023/FPHSSR.0505.05