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A series of earlier CEPR reports documented a substantial decline over the last three decades in the share of “good jobs” in the U.S. economy. This fall-off in job quality took place despite a large increase in the educational attainment and age of the workforce, as well as the productivity...
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, the end of the official recession will have little visible impact on U.S. labor markets until almost 2012. Within that … time, this paper estimates that U.S. workers will have lost over $1 trillion in wages and salaries, $150 billion more than …
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Over the past three decades, the “human capital” of the employed black workforce has increased enormously. In 1979, only one-in-ten (10.4 percent) black workers had a four-year college degree or more. By 2011, more than one in four (26.2 percent) had a college education or more. Over the...
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, before the Great Recession began, and 2010, the low point for the labor market. The deterioration in the economy's ability to …
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, especially those at the middle and the bottom of the pay scale. The restructuring of the U.S. labor market – including the … pulling the bottom out of the labor market and increasing the share of bad jobs in the economy. In this paper, we define a bad …
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The employment effect of the minimum wage is one of the most studied topics in all of economics. This report examines the most recent wave of this research – roughly since 2000 – to determine the best current estimates of the impact of increases in the minimum wage on the employment...
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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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to unions has played, together with relatively weak labor law. In order to fully flesh out the experience of the United …
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that AAPI workers are highly diverse. The second theme is that AAPI workers face many challenges in the labor market. The …
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This report uses national data from 2003 to 2007 to show that unionization raises the wages of the typical low … raising the wages of the lowest-wage workers the most. …
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