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Work Sharing: The Quick Route Back to Full Employment

Baker, Dean - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2011

This paper outlines a proposal for a system of work sharing that would give employers an incentive to maintain workers on their payroll at reduced hours as an alternative to laying them off. The system would be attached to the existing system of unemployment compensation, with shorttime...

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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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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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It's So Hard to Get Good Help

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 Wage and Employment Impact of Minimum-Wage Laws in Three Cities

Schmitt, John; Rosnick, David - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2011

This report analyzes the wage and employment effects of the first three city-specific minimum wages in the United … States –San Francisco (2004), Santa Fe (2004), and Washington, DC (1993). We use data from a virtual census of employment in … on wages and employment in fast food restaurants, food services, retail trade, and other low-wage and small …

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Job Sharing: Tax Credits to Prevent Layoffs and Stimulate Employment

Baker, Dean - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2009

The unemployment rate is expected to average 10.2 percent for 2010, 9.1 percent for 2011, and 7.3 percent for 2012. With this in mind, this Issue Brief describes a job sharing tax credit, designed to provide a quick and substantial boost to the economy. It would use tax dollars to pay firms to...

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Pay for Play? Tax Credits for Paid Time Off

Baker, Dean - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2009

Economists are increasingly coming to the recognition that the current downturn is likely to be longer and more severe than they had expected at the time the last stimulus package was approved in February. As a result, there is likely to be interest in additional stimulus in order to boost the...

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Deconstructing Structural Unemployment

Schmitt, John; Warner, Kris - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2011

Some economic observers argue “structural unemployment” has increased in the wake of the Great Recession, but in this paper we find little support for either of two arguments that suggest that structural unemployment has been on the rise. The first argument focuses on the large increase in...

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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

when the economy is at or near full employment, but have not been effective during the downturn. German labor … economy is operating at or near full employment, but have performed well in the Great Recession. The paper also discusses …

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The Problem with Structural Unemployment in the U.S.

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

remedy for structural unemployment - will have little effect on overall employment. …

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