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

This report reviews unionization rates, the size and composition of the unionized workforce, and the wage and benefit advantage for union workers in each of the fifty states and the District of Columbia, using the most recent data available and focusing on the period 2003-2009. Pooling data from...

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Diversity and Change: Asian American and Pacific Islander Workers

Schmitt, John; Rho, Hye Jin; Woo, Nicole - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2011

About 7.4 million Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) work in the United States, making up 5.3 percent of the total U.S. workforce. About 7.1 million of these AAPI workers are Asian Americans; about 300,000 are Pacific Islanders. The AAPI workforce is almost 20 times larger today than...

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Unions and Upward Mobility for Service-Sector Workers

Schmitt, John - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2009

unionization also increases the likelihood that a service sector worker will have health insurance and a pension. The report also …

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Unions and Upward Mobility for Immigrant Workers

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

This report reviews the characteristics of the immigrant workforce and analyzes the impact of unionization on the pay and benefits of immigrant workers. According to the most recent available data, immigrant workers are now over 15 percent of the workforce and almost 13 percent of unionized...

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Unions and Upward Mobility for Asian Pacific American Workers

Schmitt, John; Rho, Hye-Jin; Woo, Nicole - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2009

have health insurance and a pension. …

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Unions and Upward Mobility for Women Workers

Schmitt, John - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2008

also increases the likelihood that a woman worker will have health insurance and a pension. The study also notes that union … membership results in health care and pension gain on par with the gains of a college education. …

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Unions and Upward Mobility for Latino Workers

Schmitt, John - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2008

likelihood that a Latino worker will have health insurance and a pension. …

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Unions and Upward Mobility for Asian American and Pacific Islander Workers

Schmitt, John; Rho, Hye Jin; Woo, Nicole - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2011

percentage points more likely to have health insurance and about 22 percentage points more likely to have a retirement plan than … retirement plan through their job. …

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The Impact of Income Distribution on the Length of Retirement

Baker, Dean; Rosnick, David - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2010

Social Security has made it possible for the vast majority of workers to enjoy a period of retirement in at least … modest comfort without relying on their children for support. The average length of retirement has increased consistently … since the program was started in 1937. However, the increase in the normal retirement age from 65 to 67 that is being phased …

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Action on Social Security: The Urgent Need for Delay

Baker, Dean - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2010

There is enormous public confusion (much of it deliberately cultivated) about the extent of Social Security’s projected shortfall. Many policymakers and analysts point out that projections from the Congressional Budget Office and the Social Security Trustees show the program to be out of...

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