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The High Budgetary Cost of Incarceration
Schmitt, John; Warner, Kris - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2010
-offenders of working age. Because a prison record or felony conviction greatly lowers ex-offenders’ prospects in the labor market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008727348
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The Changing Face of Labor, 1983-2008
Schmitt, John; Warner, Kris - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2009
Over the last quarter century, the unionized workforce has changed dramatically, according to this new CEPR report. In 2008, union workers reflected trends in the workforce as a whole toward a greater share of women, Latinos, Asian Pacific Americans, older, more-educated workers, and a shift out...
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The $1 Trillion Wage Deficit
Baker, Dean; Schmitt, John - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2009
, the end of the official recession will have little visible impact on U.S. labor markets until almost 2012. Within that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008545825
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Labor Market Policy in the Great Recession: Some Lessons from Denmark and Germany
Schmitt, John - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2011
This paper reviews the recent labor-market performance of 21 rich countries, with a focus on Denmark and Germany …. Denmark, which was widely seen as one of the world's most successful labor markets before the downturn, has struggled in … recent years. Germany, however, has outperformed the rest of the world's rich countries since 2007, despite earlier labor …
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