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CEPR researches economic performance and social indicators in Europe and the United States.

Reports

The United States and the World: Where Are We Headed?
September 2008, Mark Weisbrot

'Misunderestimating' Living Standards
January 2008, John Schmitt and David Rosnick

"Usable Productivity" Growth in the U.S.: An International Comparison, 1980-2005
June 2007, Dean Baker and David Rosnick

Is the Unemployment Rate in Sweden Really 17 Percent?
June 2007, John Schmitt

No-Vacation Nation
May 2007, Rebecca Ray and John Schmitt

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Op-Eds & Columns

The G-20 and Biological Warfare
Dean Baker
Truthout, November 10, 2008

Ripping Off European Investors: The Great American Pastime
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, October 27, 2008

U.S.-Russian Relations: Current Tensions Reflect Past Foreign Policy Failures
Mark Weisbrot
PostGlobal at washingtonpost.com, August 29, 2008

Victories on the Left
Dean Baker
Truthout, December 3, 2007

The Real Economic Crisis
Dean Baker and John Schmitt
The Guardian Unlimited, October 14, 2007

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Press Releases

U.K.’s Living Standards Will Still Lag Behind the U.S.
January 11, 2008

U.S. Productivity Growth Still Trails Europe
June 12, 2007

Does the Financial Times Believe the U.S. Unemployment Rate is 13 Percent?
June 5, 2007

U.S. Only Advanced Economy That Does Not Guarantee Workers Paid Vacation
May 16, 2007

Long U.S. Work Hours Are Bad for the Environment, Study Shows
December 20, 2006

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Other Resources

Low-Wage European Research Network (LoWER)
This international network brings together European researchers on wages, inequality, immigration, gender and employment behaviour to address the problem of social exclusion.

Services and Employment:
Explaining the U.S.-European Gap
with two chapters co-authored by John Schmitt
Princeton University Press (2007)

Flat World, Big Gaps:
Economic Liberalization, Globalization, Poverty And Inequality
with a chapter by Mark Weisbrot, Dean Baker, and David Rosnick, and a chapter co-authored by Heather Boushey
Published in association with the United Nations (2007)