The Christian Science Monitor reports that teen employment rates are down, owing partly to more summer opportunities for education or community service, but also because older workers are increasingly competing with teens for a shrinking supply of entry-level jobs.

The Nigerian government has approved a policy intended to address HIV/AIDS issues in the workplace (kaisernetwork.org Daily HIV/AIDS Report).

An article in the May 7 Wall Street Journal looks at the link between baby boomers and new immigrants. As boomers retire, immigrants and their children will fill their economic role, so better education for Latinos will benefit the nation, according to Dowell Myers, a demographer at the University of Southern California and author of Immigrants and Boomers: Forging a New Social Contract for the Future of America.

The WSJ article is available to the Penn State community online; others should check their local library.

Working parents with moderate incomes are experiencing an erosion of their employer-provided health benefits, according to a study funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The full report, prepared by the State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC) at the University of Minnesota, is available for download.

New reports from the Urban Institute:

• The Characteristics of Unauthorized Immigrants in California, Los Angeles County, and the United States
• Trends in the Low-Wage Immigrant Labor Force, 2000-2005
• Immigrants and the Low-Wage Economy (panel discussion audio files)

New from the Employee Benefit Research Institute: Employment-Based Health Benefits: Access and Coverage, 1988-2005

The US needs to increase production of postsecondary degrees and reduce achievement gaps among racial and socioeconomic groups in order to stay competitive with other developed countries, according to Hitting Home: Quality, Cost, and Access Challenges Confronting Higher Education Today (PDF), a new report released today by Making Opportunity Affordable, an initiative of Jobs for the Future.

The HRS has released Version 1 of the Respondent Pension Data Tracker Files. The files were constructed to enhance the user’s ability to utilize pension information from various jobs reported by respondents in up to seven waves of the HRS.

PRI Affiliates may request these data from the Data Archivist.

In anticipation of the upcoming House vote on the minimum wage, the Christian Science Monitor has published a two-part series. Part one looks at life for families earning the minimum, and part two examines the effects of raising the minimum wage.

HIV/AIDS and work: global estimates, impact on children and youth, and response 2006 (PDF) is a new report from the International Labour Office (ILO). The report discusses how HIV/AIDS impacts the labor force and working age population.