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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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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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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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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 Value of the “Too Big to Fail” Big Bank Subsidy

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

One outcome of the TARP and other bank rescue efforts following the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September of 2008 is that the United States has essentially formalized a commitment to a “too big to fail” (TBTF) policy for major banks. This paper uses data from the FDIC on the relative cost...

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Taming the Deficit: Saving Our Children from Themselves

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

Many proponents of conservative fiscal policies talk of the budget deficit as being a matter of intergenerational equality. However, this paper shows the younger generations (and those yet to be born) will contribute more to the deficit than older generations. This analysis uses data from the...

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Employer Responsibility in Health Care Reform: Potential Effects on Low- and Moderate-Income Workers

Fremstad, Shawn - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2009

Leading health care reform proposals all require individuals to obtain health care coverage, but differ in how they would require employers to share in the costs of coverage for their employees. This report reviews the employer responsibility requirements in the leading proposals—often...

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Free Ride: The Senate Health Bill’s Approach to “Employer Responsibility” Means Some Large Employers Get to Take It Easy

Fremstad, Shawn - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2009

Leaders in both the House and the Senate have committed to "shared responsibility" as a basic principle of health care reform, meaning that the costs of health care coverage are shared by individuals, businesses, and the public sector. However, as this issue brief documents, the Senate version...

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Reimbursement Roulette: The Baucus Bill’s Too Playful Approach to “Play-or-Pay” in Health Care Reform

Fremstad, Shawn - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2009

Two of the three leading health care reform proposals being considered by Congress—the House “Tri-Committee” health care reform legislation and the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee’s reform legislation—include sensibly designed “play-or-pay” provisions...

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