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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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Regulation of Public Sector Collective Bargaining in the States
Schmitt, John; Sanes, Milla - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2014
While the unionization of most private-sector workers is governed by the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), the legal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010751630
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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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Migration and Development Research Is Moving Far beyond Remittances - Working Paper 365
Clemens, Michael; Özden, Çaglar; Rapoport, Hillel - 2014
Research on migration and development has recently changed, in two ways. First, it has grown sharply in volume, emerging as a proper subfield. Second, while it once embraced principally rural-urban migration and international remittances, migration and development research has broadened to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010783609
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Skill Development and Regional Mobility: Lessons from the Australia-Pacific Technical College - Working Paper 370
Clemens, Michael; Graham, Colum; Howes, Stephen - 2014
Developing countries invest in training skilled workers and can lose part of their investment if those workers emigrate. One response is for the destination countries to design ways to participate in financing skilled emigrants’ training before they migrate—linking skill creation and skill...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010783611
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A Case against Taxes and Quotas on High-Skill Emigration - Working Paper 363
Clemens, Michael - 2014
Skilled workers have a rising tendency to emigrate from developing countries, raising fears that their departure harms the poor. To mitigate such harm, researchers have proposed a variety of policies designed to tax or restrict high-skill migration. Those policies have been justified as Pigovian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010783624
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A Labor Mobility Agenda for Development
Clemens, Michael - 2010
globalization of almost all factors of production—except labor. So far, this policy has failed to cause the living standards of most … people in most developing countries to converge with living standards in rich countries. But the globalization of labor … forward is for rich countries to greatly open up legal pathways for temporary labor movement. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008545864
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Skill Flow: A Fundamental Reconsideration of Skilled-Worker Mobility and Development
Clemens, Michael - 2009
Large numbers of doctors, engineers, and other skilled workers from developing countries choose to move to other countries. Do their choices threaten development? The answer appears so obvious that their movement is most commonly known by the pejorative term “brain drain.” This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008528573
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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