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Unions and Upward Mobility for Service-Sector Workers

Schmitt, John - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2009

This report uses national data from the Current Population Survey (CPS) to show that unionization raises the wages of the typical service sector worker by 10.1 percent compared to their non-union peers. The study goes on to show that unionization also increases the likelihood that a service...

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Unions and Upward Mobility for Women Workers

Schmitt, John - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2008

This report uses national data from the Current Population Survey (CPS) to show that unionization raises the wages of the typical woman worker by 11.2 percent compared to their non-union peers. The study goes on to show that unionization also increases the likelihood that a woman worker will...

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Unions and Upward Mobility for Latino Workers

Schmitt, John - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2008

This report uses national data from 2004 to 2007 to show that unionization raises the wages of the typical Latino worker by 17.6 percent compared to their non-union peers. The study goes on to show that unionization also increases the likelihood that a Latino worker will have health insurance...

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The Unions of the States

Schmitt, John - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2010

This report reviews unionization rates, the size and composition of the unionized workforce, and the wage and benefit advantage for union workers in each of the fifty states and the District of Columbia, using the most recent data available and focusing on the period 2003-2009. Pooling data from...

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Unions and Upward Mobility for Asian American and Pacific Islander Workers

Schmitt, John; Rho, Hye Jin; Woo, Nicole - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2011

Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) are, with Latinos, the fastest growing ethnic group in the U.S. workforce. In 2009, Asian American and Pacific Islanders were one of every 20 U.S. workers, up from one in 40 only 20 years earlier. AAPIs, again with Latinos, are also the fastest...

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The distributional effects of government responses to the 2009 recession in Thailand

Haughton, Jonathan; Jitsuchon, Somchai; Rukumnuaykit, … - In: Journal of Southeast Asian economies 33 (2016) 1, pp. 41-64

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Half in Ten: Why Taking Disability into Account is Essential to Reducing Income Poverty and Expanding Economic Inclusion

Fremstad, Shawn - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2009

Disability is both a fundamental cause and consequence of income poverty. The income-poverty rate for persons with disabilities is between two to three times the rate for persons without disabilities. Yet, contemporary policy debate and research about income poverty in the United States is...

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A Modern Framework for Measuring Poverty and Basic Economic Security

Fremstad, Shawn - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2010

This report details how the dominant framework for understanding and measuring poverty in the United States has become a conservative one. The current U.S. approach to measuring poverty views poverty only in terms of having an extremely low level of annual income, and utilizes poverty thresholds...

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The COVID-19 shock : a Bayesian approach

Younes, Oussama Abi; Altuğ, Sumru - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 10, pp. 1-15

prices, unemployment rates, and interest rates in nine countries that took distinctive approaches in tackling the pandemic …, where we introduce lockdowns as shocks to unemployment. Based on impulse response functions, we find that in most countries … the unemployment rate rose, interest rates fell or turned negative, and prices fell initially following the implementation …

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More Budget Belt-Tightening Means More Job Losses for States

Sherman, Matt - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2009

This paper looks at the problem of state budget shortfalls during the recession and calculates the number of jobs that …

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