Journal Article
Looking back at slow employment growth
Roberts, Kristin M.; Schweitzer, Mark E. (1994-08)
An analysis of slower-than-normal employment growth in the post-1991 economic recovery, examining trends at both the state and national level and finding a widespread weakness in the rate of job addition in growing industries, rather than an unusually high job deletion rate in contracting industries.
Economic Commentary , Issue Aug

Journal Article
The myth of the overworked American
Rupert, Peter; Roberts, Kristin M. (1995-01)
A challenge to the popular presumption that U.S. workers are experiencing declining levels of leisure time, finding that the total hours of work have not changed much over the past decade, but that the composition of labor has shifted from home work to market work, mostly as a result of changes in the total hours worked by women.
Economic Commentary , Issue Jan

Journal Article
State employment 1995: slowing to a recession?
Roberts, Kristin M.; Schweitzer, Mark E. (1996-03)
An appraisal of the health of the national economy based on the final state employment figures for 1995. The authors find that although employment growth has tapered off throughout the United States, there is no definitive evidence of a national recession in the near term.
Economic Commentary , Issue Mar