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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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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
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Bad Jobs on the Rise
Schmitt, John; Jones, Janelle - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2012
, especially those at the middle and the bottom of the pay scale. The restructuring of the U.S. labor market – including the … 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010569385
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Has Education Paid Off for Black Workers?
Schmitt, John; Jones, Janelle - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010681103
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Returns to Human Capital under the Communist Wage Grid and During the Transition to a Market Economy
Terrell, Katherine; Svejnar, Jan; Münich, Daniel - 2000
Under communism, workers had their wages set according to a centrally-determined wage grid. In this paper we use new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275906
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Seniority, External Labor Markets, and Faculty Pay
Brown, Byron W.; Woodbury, Stephen A. - 1995
returns respond to entry-level salaries (or opportunity wages) a relationship unexplored in work to date. Using data on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011763201
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Returns to Human Capital under the Communist Wage Grid and During the Transition to a Market Economy
Munich, Daniel; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
Under communism, workers had their wages set according to a centrally-determined wage grid. In this paper we use new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763493
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The $1 Trillion Wage Deficit
Baker, Dean; Schmitt, John - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2009
, 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008545825
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Seniority, External Labor Markets, and Faculty Pay
Brown, Byron W.; Woodbury, Stephen A. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1995
returns respond to entry-level salaries (or opportunity wages) a relationship unexplored in work to date. Using data on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005141946
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Returns to human capital under the communist wage grid and during the transition to a market economy
Terrell, Katherine D.; Švejnar, Jan; Münich, Daniel - 2000
Under communism, workers had their wages set according to a centrally-determined wage grid. In this paper we use new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325997