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On January 23, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released its estimates for union membership in the United States in …
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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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On January 24, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released its estimates for union membership in the United States in …
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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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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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, 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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, 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 …
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