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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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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
benefits, we would have expected the share of “good jobs” in the economy to have increased in line with improvements in the …
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Bad Jobs on the Rise
Schmitt, John; Jones, Janelle - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2012
The decline in the economy’s ability to create good jobs is related to deterioration in the bargaining power of workers, especially those at the middle and the bottom of the pay scale. The restructuring of the U.S. labor market – including the decline in the inflation-adjusted value of the...
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Women, Working Families, and Unions
Schmitt, John; Jones, Janelle; Woo, Nicole - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2014
reviewed here suggests that unions can provide substantial support to women trying to balance their paid work and their unpaid …
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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 …
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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 2012. This issue brief focuses on the union membership numbers by state. In addition to presenting the BLS estimates for overall union membership in each state, we also provide...
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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 2013. This issue brief focuses on the union membership numbers by gender, education, race, and private vs public sector.
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Women Workers and Unions
Schmitt, John; Woo, Nicole - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2013
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 residence, the data show a substantial boost in pay and benefits for … female workers in unions relative to their non-union counterparts. The effect is particularly strong for women with lower …
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Union Advantage for Black Workers
Jones, Janelle; Schmitt, John - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2014
, unionization has a significant positive impact on black workers' wages and benefits. The union advantage is particularly strong for …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 …
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