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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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benefits paid to black workers. These data show that even after controlling for factors such as age and education level … black workers with lower levels of formal education. …
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.2 percent) had a college education or more. Over the same period, the share of black workers with less than a high school degree … increases in education and work experience will increase workers' productivity and translate into higher compensation. But, the …
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, which control for increases in age and education of the population, suggest that relative to 1979 the economy has lost about …, 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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More flexible labor markets, or those with lower employment protection, are associated with relatively higher tertiary … education enrollment and graduation rates than more rigid markets. …
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This report presents evidence on the effectiveness of interventions that include work experience as a strategy to improve employment outcomes for people with barriers to employment. The report reviews 26 years of rigorous research gathering information from 27 evaluations. The author...
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-offenders of working age. Because a prison record or felony conviction greatly lowers ex-offenders’ prospects in the labor market …
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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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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...
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