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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 …

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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...

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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. …

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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...

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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 …

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Union Advantage for Black Workers

Jones, Janelle; Schmitt, John - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2014

In this report, we review the most recent data available to examine the impact of unionization on the wages and benefits paid to black workers. These data show that even after controlling for factors such as age and education level, unionization has a significant positive impact on black...

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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...

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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 …

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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...

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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...

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