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Baker, Dean - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2012

There is a growing chorus of policy analysts and pundits telling the country that we could have millions more jobs in manufacturing, if only we had qualified workers. This claim has the interesting feature that it places responsibility for the lack of jobs on workers, not on the people who get...

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The High Budgetary Cost of Incarceration

Schmitt, John; Warner, Kris - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2010

, we estimate that this large population lowered the total male employment rate that year by 1.5 to 1.7 percentage points …. In GDP terms, these reductions in employment cost the U.S. economy between $57 and $65 billion in lost output. …

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State Union Membership, 2012

Schmitt, John; Jones, Janelle; Sanes, Milla - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2013

On January 23, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released its estimates for union membership in the United States in 2012. This issue brief focuses on the union membership numbers by state. In addition to presenting the BLS estimates for overall union membership in each state, we also provide...

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Why Does the Minimum Wage Have No Discernible Effect on Employment?

Schmitt, John - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2013

The employment effect of the minimum wage is one of the most studied topics in all of economics. This report examines … increases in the minimum wage on the employment prospects of low-wage workers. The weight of that evidence points to little or … no employment response to modest increases in the minimum wage. …

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Regulation of Public Sector Collective Bargaining in the States

Schmitt, John; Sanes, Milla - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2014

While the unionization of most private-sector workers is governed by the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), the legal scope of collective bargaining for state and local public-sector workers is the domain of states and, where states allow it, local authorities. This hodge-podge of...

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Does It Pay to Volunteer? The Relationship Between Volunteer Work and Paid Work

Jorgensen, Helene - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2013

with little history of paid employment it can also signal that a person would be a reliable and motivated employee. In … on employment and pay in the United States. This analysis examines volunteering as a pathway to employment during a …

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State Union Membership, 2013

Schmitt, John; Jones, Janelle - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2014

On January 24, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released its estimates for union membership in the United States in 2013. This issue brief focuses on the union membership numbers by gender, education, race, and private vs public sector.

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Women Workers and Unions

Schmitt, John; Woo, Nicole - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2013

This issue brief looks at the most recent national data available to examine the impact that being in or represented by a union has on the wages and benefits of women in the paid workforce. Even after controlling for factors such as age, race, industry, educational attainment and state of...

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Union Advantage for Black Workers

Jones, Janelle; Schmitt, John - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2014

In this report, we review the most recent data available to examine the impact of unionization on the wages and benefits paid to black workers. These data show that even after controlling for factors such as age and education level, unionization has a significant positive impact on black...

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Did NAFTA Help Mexico? An Assessment After 20 Years

Weisbrot, Mark; Lefebvre, Stephan; Sammut, Joseph - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2014

This paper compares the performance of the Mexican economy with that of the rest of the region over the past 20 years, based on the available economic and social indicators, and with its own past economic performance. Among the results it finds that Mexico ranks 18th out of 20 Latin American...

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