time, this paper estimates that U.S. workers will have lost over $1 trillion in wages and salaries, $150 billion more than …

very small — only 0.13 percent of GDP by 2025. Taking into account the un-equalizing effect of trade on wages, this paper … the highest wages who are more protected from international competition. Rather, many top incomes will rise as a result of …

jobs” in the U.S. economy. This fall-off in job quality took place despite a large increase in the educational attainment …

trend and policies that would have a large, positive impact on the quality of jobs for black workers. …

benefits, we would have expected the share of “good jobs” in the economy to have increased in line with improvements in the … quality of workforce. Instead, the share of “good jobs” in the U.S. economy has actually fallen. The estimates in this paper … one-third (28 to 38 percent) of its capacity to generate good jobs. The data show only minor differences between 2007 …

The decline in the economy’s ability to create good jobs is related to deterioration in the bargaining power of workers … unemployment well above the full employment level – has substantially reduced the bargaining power of U.S. workers, effectively … 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 …

moderate-wage jobs, with more opportunities to improve their skills and education throughout their lifetimes. …

from structural unemployment, or a mismatch between the skills of the unemployed and the types of jobs available. The …