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Strategic and Political Challenges to Large-Scale Federal Job Creation

Goldberg, Gertrude - In: The Review of Black Political Economy 39 (2012) 1, pp. 43-62

This article identifies and explores means of meeting political and strategic challenges to the enactment of a federal job creation program sufficiently large and well-targeted to cope with mass unemployment. The challenges include: anti-government ideology; perceived failure of the Obama...

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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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Expatriate academics: job factors and work outcomes

Selmer, Jan; Lauring, Jakob - In: International Journal of Manpower 32 (2011) May, pp. 194-194

Purpose – The literature on business expatriates has been increasing rapidly, but research on expatriate academics has remained scant, despite the apparent increasing globalisation of the academic world. Therefore, more research is needed on the latter group of expatriates. This paper aims to...

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Regulation of Public Sector Collective Bargaining in the States

Schmitt, John; Sanes, Milla - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2014

While the unionization of most private-sector workers is governed by the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), the legal scope of collective bargaining for state and local public-sector workers is the domain of states and, where states allow it, local authorities. This hodge-podge of...

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How Many Danish Jobs Can (Potentially) Be Done Elsewhere?

Eriksson, Tor - Nationalökonomisk Institut, Institut for Økonomi - 2009

This paper employs a new survey technique to arrive at estimates of the proportion of jobs with the characteristic that … carried out in November 2008 indicate that the proportion of current jobs with offshorability characteristics in Denmark is in … the 20 to 30 percent range. Danish jobs that could potentially be carried out elsewhere are primarily found in the …

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Does It Pay to Volunteer? The Relationship Between Volunteer Work and Paid Work

Jorgensen, Helene - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2013

It is widely believed that volunteering will improve workers’ job prospects. The logic is that volunteering offers opportunities to expand work-related experience, develop new skills, and build a network of professional contacts. For young people with little history of paid employment it can...

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Gender-specific job choices - implications for career education as part of economic education

Wiepcke, Claudia - In: International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education 2 (2011) 4, pp. 355-368

Labour market and occupational orientation are core topics of economic education. The separation of men's professions and women's professions - the so-called gender-specific segregation - is one of the most enduring socio-structural characteristics of the labour market. Although an increasing...

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Jobs and welfare in Mozambique

Jones, Sam; Tarp, Finn - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2013

Mozambique has achieved remarkable macroeconomic success over recent decades, boasting one of the world.s highest rates of GDP growth. However, absolute poverty remains persistent, spilling over into social unrest. To better understand the link between ag

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Implications of tax receivables and retribution for the economic growth of Indonesia

Bratamanggala, Rudi - In: European research studies 20 (2017) 3A, pp. 570-579

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Jobs, economic growth, and capacity development for youth in Africa

Bhorat, Haroon; Oosthuizen, Morné - 2020

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