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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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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 … unemployment well above the full employment level – has substantially reduced the bargaining power of U.S. workers, effectively … 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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gap: (1) directly, through reductions in health capital, and (2) indirectly, through employment transitions that reduce ….30 decline in hourly wages on top of a $0.57 decline associated with the disability onset. …
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, the end of the official recession will have little visible impact on U.S. labor markets until almost 2012. Within that … time, this paper estimates that U.S. workers will have lost over $1 trillion in wages and salaries, $150 billion more than …
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that AAPI workers are highly diverse. The second theme is that AAPI workers face many challenges in the labor market. The …
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workers and their families. One such change has been the growth of various forms of employment collectively referred to as … ‘non-traditional’ or ‘non-standard’. The Commission has conducted research into each of these forms of employment. This … that, contrary to conventional wisdom, the growth of non-traditional employment in recent years has been in step with that …
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This report uses national data from 2003 to 2007 to show that unionization raises the wages of the typical low … raising the wages of the lowest-wage workers the most. …
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very small — only 0.13 percent of GDP by 2025. Taking into account the un-equalizing effect of trade on wages, this paper … the highest wages who are more protected from international competition. Rather, many top incomes will rise as a result of … period (to 2025), from the failure to restore full employment to the United States have been some 25 times greater than the …
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