Underemployed? Key Labor Market Think Tank at Northeastern Shuts Down

The influential Northeastern University think tank that authored several NEJHE articles in recent decades ended it operations this month.

The closing of the Center for Labor Market Studies follows the retirement last summer of its director Andrew Sum, who had launched the center in 1979 with a U.S. Department of Labor grant. In 2011, Paul Harrington, who co-directed the center from 1980 to 2010, moved on to be an economics professor at Philadelphia’s Drexel University, where he runs a similar institute. Northeastern reportedly planned to lay off remaining center staff.

Among the center’s writings for NEJHE (formerly Connection):

College Labor Shortages in 2018? Part Deux (Paul E. Harrington and Andrew M. Sum, Dec. 7, 2010)

College Labor Shortages in 2018? (Paul E. Harrington and Andrew M. Sum, Nov. 8, 2010)

Jobs Report: STIM II, no STIM or Tax Cuts? (Neeta P. Fogg and Paul E. Harrington, Sept. 3, 2010)

Does a 4.5% Unemployment Rate Among College Grads Constitute “Full Employment”? (Neeta P. Fogg and Paul E. Harrington, Aug. 12, 2010)

Today’s Grim Jobs Report (Neeta P. Fogg and Paul E. Harrington, Aug. 6, 2010)

Soft Factors Influence College Enrollment (Neeta P. Fogg and Paul E. Harrington, June 4, 2010)

A Matter of Degrees: How Undergraduate College Completions Shape Labor Supply (Neeta P. Fogg and Paul E. Harrington, Spring 2004)

Imported Talent: Foreign Immigration and the New England Labor Market, Andrew Sum, Mykhaylo Trubs’kyy, Neeta P. Fogg, Summer 2003

A Critical Condition: Solving New England’s Health Care Workforce Crisis (Richard M. Freeland and Paul E. Harrington, Spring 2003)

Higher Education Advantage: Economic Reality or Wishful Thinking? (Neeta P. Fogg and Paul E. Harrington, Fall 2002)

Access Is About More Than Money (Paul E. Harrington and Andrew M. Sum, Fall/Winter 1999)