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Job Sharing: Tax Credits to Prevent Layoffs and Stimulate Employment

Baker, Dean - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2009

. With this in mind, this Issue Brief describes a job sharing tax credit, designed to provide a quick and substantial boost … to the economy. It would use tax dollars to pay firms to shorten the typical workweek, while keeping pay constant. This … should cause employers to want to hire additional workers. A rough estimate of the impact of this tax credit is between 1 …

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Taming the Deficit: Saving Our Children from Themselves

Baker, Dean; Rosnick, David - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2009

Many proponents of conservative fiscal policies talk of the budget deficit as being a matter of intergenerational equality. However, this paper shows the younger generations (and those yet to be born) will contribute more to the deficit than older generations. This analysis uses data from the...

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The $1 Trillion Wage Deficit

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

The strong rise in the U.S. stock market since the spring and the return to positive economic growth in the third quarter of this year have created a consensus among economists that the Great Recession is very likely over. Unfortunately, the end of the official recession will have little visible...

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Employer Responsibility in Health Care Reform: Potential Effects on Low- and Moderate-Income Workers

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

Leading health care reform proposals all require individuals to obtain health care coverage, but differ in how they would require employers to share in the costs of coverage for their employees. This report reviews the employer responsibility requirements in the leading proposals—often...

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Free Ride: The Senate Health Bill’s Approach to “Employer Responsibility” Means Some Large Employers Get to Take It Easy

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

Leaders in both the House and the Senate have committed to "shared responsibility" as a basic principle of health care reform, meaning that the costs of health care coverage are shared by individuals, businesses, and the public sector. However, as this issue brief documents, the Senate version...

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Reimbursement Roulette: The Baucus Bill’s Too Playful Approach to “Play-or-Pay” in Health Care Reform

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

Two of the three leading health care reform proposals being considered by Congress—the House “Tri-Committee” health care reform legislation and the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee’s reform legislation—include sensibly designed “play-or-pay” provisions...

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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 would be lost (nationally and by state) if states utilize pro-cyclical spending cuts in an attempt to balance their budgets. This is an update to an earlier paper from December...

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Cut Loose: State and Local Layoffs of Public Employees in the Current Recession

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

In the current recession, millions of Americans have lost their jobs. Unemployment has increased nationwide to levels not witnessed since the 1980s. This issue brief tallies more than 110,000 jobs that have been shed from state and local governments in the last two years and breaks them down by...

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Hard Work? Patterns of Physically Demand Labor Among Older Workers

Rho, Hye Jin - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2010

Employment in physically demanding jobs or in jobs with difficult working conditions is a major cause of early labor-market exit among older workers. Raising the retirement age is particularly concerning for near-retirement age workers with such jobs. Despite the fact that the retirement age...

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Дългосрочен ефект на застаряването върху публичните финанси в България 2010-2050

Vasilev, Dimitar; Hadzhiyski, Tsvetan - Agency for Economic Analysis and Forecasting, Ministry … - 2008

Настоящето изследване представя дългосрочна прогноза за демографското развитие в България и оценка на неговия ефект върху икономиката и публичните финанси....

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