Revitalizing Union Representation Through a Life-Cycle Approach
John W. Budd Topics Labor Force Demographics/Supply Unionized voice and representation has weakened in many countries and sectors. In response, labor unionists, activists, and academics continue to...
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Recession Proof? Recent Trends in Nursing
Alan Benson, MIT doctoral student Topics Labor Force Demographics/Supply This study uses recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the NCLEX-RN licensing exam to characterize the recent...
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The Modern Indentured Servants
Topics Labor Force Demographics/Supply The US government currently provides visas for about one million high-skilled foreign workers to work temporarily in the US. These visas, a distinctive...
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Future Skill Shortages in the U.S. Economy?
David Neumark, Hans Johnson, and Marisol Cuellar Mejia Topics Labor Force Demographics/Supply The impending retirement of the baby boom cohort represents the first time in the history of the United...
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Diversity and Change: Asian American and Pacific Islander Workers
Hye Jin Rho, John Schmitt, Nicole Woo, Lucia Lin and Kent Wong Topics Labor Force Demographics/Supply This report reviews 50 years of government data on Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI)...
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The Continued Collapse of the Nation’s Teen Summer Job Market
Who Worked in the Summer of 2011? Andrew M. Sum, Ishwar Khatiwada and Sheila Palma Topics Labor Force Demographics/Supply Labor market conditions for most demographic groups of U.S. workers have been...
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The Great Recession of 2007-2009, the Lagging Jobs Recovery, and the Missing...
Why We Should Care Andrew Sum and Mykhaylo Trubskyy Topics Labor Force Demographics/Supply The past decade in the United States (2001-2010) was not a favorable one for many of America’s workers.Total...
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Employment-promoting anti-poverty programs from the 1990s need major revisions
Subtitle: Single-mother poverty fifteen years after welfare reform Topics Labor Force Demographics/Supply Different Anti-Poverty Programs, Same Single-Mother Poverty Employment-promoting "welfare...
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The State of Communities of Color in the U.S. Economy
Subtitle: Still Feeling the Pain Three Years into the Recovery Christian Weller, Julie Ajinkya and Jane Farrell Topics Labor Force Demographics/Supply Click here to read "The State of Communities of...
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Mitchell’s Musings 6-11-12: The Coming Labor Shortage? Let’s Not Get Too Excited
Daniel J.B. Mitchell Topics Labor Force Demographics/Supply There is a temptation to point to the retirement of the baby boom as a source of coming labor shortage. It should be resisted. The history...
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The Changing Contours of Long-Term Unemployment
The Need for a More Radical Approach Topics Labor Force Demographics/Supply Unemployment has been above 8 percent for more than three years now, but the real story has been the increase among the...
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Why Companies Aren't Getting the Employees They Need
Subtitle: The conventional wisdom is that our education system is failing our economy. But our companies deserve a lot of the blame themselves. Topics Labor Force Demographics/Supply Click here to...
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Why Wage Policy is an Essential Ingredient in a Democratic Society
TopicsLabor Force Demographics/SupplyDiscussions of wage policy, especially as it assumes the form of a minimum wage, often revolve around whether it really benefits the poor sufficiently to justify...
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Connecting the Disconnected
Improving Education and Employment Outcomes Among Disadvantaged Youth Peter Edelman and Harry J. Holzer TopicsLabor Force Demographics/SupplyIn this paper we briefly review recent trends in employment...
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TopicsLabor Force Demographics/SupplyAs a result of the Great Recession, civic participation among those from low-income households, which was always low compared to those in high-income households,...
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The Issue isn't the Minimum Wage ...
But the Effective Minimum Wage Population TopicsLabor Force Demographics/SupplyCritics who focus on the statutory minimum wage often miss the point. The issue is who earns the statutory minimum wage...
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A Manifesto for the Middle Class
TopicsLabor Force Demographics/SupplyThe nature of the low-wage labor market suggests that the tradition of individualism, which underpins much of America's political and economic arrangements is no...
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Organized Labor and Expanding Democracy
TopicsLabor Force Demographics/SupplyAs neither political party really speaks for the middle class, it is incumbent upon organized labor to become the voice all working Americans. The future of...
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Institutions Matter
Assaulting Labor Institutions Only Harms the Economy TopicsLabor Force Demographics/SupplyContrary to the neoclassical model that wage rigidity is the cause of unemployment, especially long-term...
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Long-Term Unemployment in the New York Metro Area During and After the Great...
TopicsLabor Force Demographics/SupplyThis article looks at data for the New York City Metro area from the CPS from 2007, the beginning of the Great Recession, until 2010, a year after it ended. As the...
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