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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
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009024458
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State Union Membership, 2012
Schmitt, John; Jones, Janelle; Sanes, Milla - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2013
On January 23, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released its estimates for union membership in the United States in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010604615
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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 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010610401
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Has Education Paid Off for Black Workers?
Schmitt, John; Jones, Janelle - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010681103
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Where Have All the Good Jobs Gone?
Schmitt, John; Jones, Janelle - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2012
, before the Great Recession began, and 2010, the low point for the labor market. The deterioration in the economy's ability to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010561374
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Making Jobs Good
Schmitt, John; Jones, Janelle - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010667720
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Protecting Fundamental Labor Rights: Lessons from Canada for the United States
Warner, Kris - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2012
to unions has played, together with relatively weak labor law. In order to fully flesh out the experience of the United …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010569383
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Bad Jobs on the Rise
Schmitt, John; Jones, Janelle - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2012
, 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010569385
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State Union Membership, 2013
Schmitt, John; Jones, Janelle - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2014
On January 24, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released its estimates for union membership in the United States in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010741285
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Women Workers and Unions
Schmitt, John; Woo, Nicole - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2013
This issue brief looks at the most recent national data available to examine the impact that being in or represented by a union has on the wages and benefits of women in the paid workforce. Even after controlling for factors such as age, race, industry, educational attainment and state of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010741286