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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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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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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010741287
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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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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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Multilateralizing Asian Regionalism
Baldwin, Richard; Kawai, Masahiro - Asian Development Bank Institute, Asian Development Bank - 2013
Motivated by the proliferation of free trade agreements (FTAs) in Asia over the last decade, this paper studies the … challenges faced by the Asian “noodle bowl”—overlapping, multiple trade rules, regulations, and standards in Asia—in the process … among Asian economies that have formed Asian supply chains, called Factory Asia. It then considers ways and means of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010991095
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New Measures of the Trilemma Hypothesis: Implications for Asia
Ito, Hiro; Kawai, Masahiro - Asian Development Bank Institute, Asian Development Bank - 2012
The authors develop a new set of indexes of exchange rate stability, monetary policy independence, and financial market openness as the metrics for the trilemma hypothesis. In their exploration, they take a different and more nuanced approach than the previous indexes developed by Aizenman,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010991111
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Central Banking for Financial Stability in Asia
Kawai, Masahiro; Morgan, Peter J. - Asian Development Bank Institute, Asian Development Bank - 2012
those in Asia’s emerging economies. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010991125