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Labor Market Policy in the Great Recession: Some Lessons from Denmark and Germany

Schmitt, John - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2011

This paper reviews the recent labor-market performance of 21 rich countries, with a focus on Denmark and Germany …. Denmark, which was widely seen as one of the world's most successful labor markets before the downturn, has struggled in … recent years. Germany, however, has outperformed the rest of the world's rich countries since 2007, despite earlier labor …

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The High Budgetary Cost of Incarceration

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

-offenders of working age. Because a prison record or felony conviction greatly lowers ex-offenders’ prospects in the labor market …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008727348

Making Jobs Good

Schmitt, John; Jones, Janelle - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2013

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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State Union Membership, 2013

Schmitt, John; Jones, Janelle - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2014

On January 24, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released its estimates for union membership in the United States in …

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Women Workers and Unions

Schmitt, John; Woo, Nicole - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2013

This issue brief looks at the most recent national data available to examine the impact that being in or represented by a union has on the wages and benefits of women in the paid workforce. Even after controlling for factors such as age, race, industry, educational attainment and state of...

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Union Advantage for Black Workers

Jones, Janelle; Schmitt, John - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2014

In this report, we review the most recent data available to examine the impact of unionization on the wages and benefits paid to black workers. These data show that even after controlling for factors such as age and education level, unionization has a significant positive impact on black...

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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 …

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Barriers to Freedom of Contract in the Public Sector

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

the private sector from entering into certain kinds of labor contracts. Federal labor law mandates that unions represent …

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Where Have All the Good Jobs Gone?

Schmitt, John; Jones, Janelle - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2012

, before the Great Recession began, and 2010, the low point for the labor market. The deterioration in the economy's ability to …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010561374

Protecting Fundamental Labor Rights: Lessons from Canada for the United States

Warner, Kris - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2012

to unions has played, together with relatively weak labor law. In order to fully flesh out the experience of the United …

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