21. Urban Myth: Structural Unemployment in Today's Economy
(Matching tags: economy, jobs, unemployment, workers, macroeconomics, hourly wages, small businesses)

... for current unemployment are mainly structural -- that worker's skills or geographic location don't match up to available jobs -- or cyclical -- that there just aren't enough jobs out there. CEPR, along ...

22. Rebuilding the Middle Class
(Matching tags: jobs, unemployment, unions, minimum wage, wage theft, safety and health)

... a Good Job Fix the Minimum Wage Save Good Public and Private Jobs Ensure Health and Retirement Security Uphold the Freedom to Join a Union Make the Modern Workplace Pro-Family Stop ...

23. CEPR News September 2012
(Matching tags: venezuela, jobs, unions, taxes, canada, ecuador, 47 percent, Erskine Bowles, Federal Reserve)

The following highlights CEPR's latest research, publications, events and much more. CEPR on Jobs: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly CEPR followed its July 2012 paper, “Where Have All the Good Jobs Gone” ...

24. Bad Jobs, Infographic Edition!
(Matching tags: jobs, retirement, health coverage, bad jobs)

Our recent CEPR report “Bad Jobs on the Rise” found that between 1979 and 2010, the share of workers in a “bad job” increased from about 18 percent to about 24 percent. (In that report, we defined a bad ...

25. More Work, Less Income in 2011
(Matching tags: poverty, jobs, inequality, Census, income)

... full-time, year-round in jobs that don't pay so hot. The table below shows what happened. Almost 2.2 million more Americans were working year-round, full-time in 2011 than in 2010. But full-time workers ...

26. Labor Market Policy Research Reports August 17 – 24, 2012
(Matching tags: jobs, labor market, education, minimum wage, China, women, trade deficit)

... Million Jobs Between 2001 and 2011, With Job Losses in Every State Robert E. Scott A Massachusetts Minimum-Wage Increase Would Help Working Families and Generate Jobs Mary Gable Institute for Women’s ...

27. Where Have all the Good Jobs Gone? Infographic Edition
(Matching tags: health, jobs, retirement, labor market, education, employment, good jobs)

The recent work of CEPR’s John Schmitt and Janelle Jones shines a harsh spotlight on the dramatic decline in “good jobs” over the last generation.  In Where Have All the Good Jobs Gone?, Schmitt and ...

28. CEPR News August 2012
(Matching tags: wikileaks, jobs, housing, labor market, unions, Honduras, private equity, canada, ecuador, julian assange)

The following highlights CEPR's latest research, publications, events and much more. CEPR on Good Jobs CEPR’s July report “Where Have All the Good Jobs Gone?” continued to receive media attention in ...

29. Labor Market Policy Research Reports August 11 – 17
(Matching tags: economy, jobs, labor market, taxes, minimum wage)

...  Institute for Women’s Policy Research Women and Men in the Recovery: Where the Jobs Are Heidi Hartmann, Ph.D., Jocelyn Fischer, and Jacqui Logan  ...

30. $100 Million in Federal Grants Available for States to Promote Work Sharing
(Matching tags: jobs, employment, work-sharing)

This week, the Department of Labor (DOL) posted an invitation to states to apply for federal funds to promote work-sharing (officially called "short-time compensation") programs.  The total amount available ...

31. Family Structure is Overrated as an Explanation of Family Income Inequality, Part 4 on DeParle's Marriage Plot
(Matching tags: poverty, jobs, inequality, working class, low-wage workers, income, families)

The basic assumption undergirding Jason DeParle's piece is that changes in family structure have been one of the primary drivers of growth in family income inequality over the last several decades. What ...

32. Family Structure is Overrated as an Explanation of Inequality, Part 3 on DeParle's Marriage Plot
(Matching tags: poverty, jobs, inequality, working class, low-wage workers, income, families)

Sociologist Loïc Wacquant writes that "binary oppositions are well-suited to exaggerating differences, confounding description and prescription, and setting up overburdened dualisms that erase continuities, ...

33. Family Structure is Overrated as an Explanation of Inequality, Part 2 on DeParle
(Matching tags: poverty, jobs, inequality, working class, low-wage workers, income, families)

In Sunday's New York Times, Jason DeParle contrasts the economic security of Jessica Shairer, a single mother of three who works at a child care center in Ann Arbor and makes under $25,000 (despite having ...

34. Labor Market Policy Research Reports, July 7 – 13, 2012
(Matching tags: jobs, labor market, inequality, unemployment, women)

Here’s a roundup of labor market research reports released in the past week: Center for Economic and Policy Research Missing the Story: The OECD's Analysis of Inequality David Rosnick and Dean Baker ...

35. Poor Sales, Not High Wages, Worry Small Businesses
(Matching tags: economy, recession, jobs, labor market, minimum wage, businesses)

... especially in the midst of an unemployment crisis. Small business owners warn that . . . there’s no way for them to absorb higher mandatory wages without cutting jobs.”  Even a brief analysis ...

36. Labor Market Policy Research Reports June 30 – July 6, 2012
(Matching tags: jobs, retirement, labor market, unemployment)

Here’s a roundup of labor market research reports released in the past week: Economic Policy Institute: Black Metropolitan Unemployment in 2011:  Las Vegas's Rates Rise Significantly Algernon ...

37. Environmental, Labor Concerns Overlooked in Rush to Build Caracol Park, Part II
(Matching tags: reconstruction, garment industry, new york times, jobs, minimum wage, labor)

This is the second installment looking at the New York Times in depth investigation into the Caracol industrial park. For part one, click here. Jobs at What Cost? Sontag reports that while concerns ...

38. Environmental, Labor Concerns Overlooked in Rush to Build Caracol Park
(Matching tags: reconstruction, garment industry, iadb, new york times, garment factories, economy, jobs, unions, environment, minimum wage, accountability)

... effort is this: an industrial park that will create jobs and housing in an area undamaged by the temblor, a venture that risks benefiting foreign companies more than Haiti itself. The park, whose main ...

39. CEPR News June 2012
(Matching tags: jobs, Honduras, private equity, FTT, eurozone, paraguay, mexico)

The following highlights CEPR's latest research, publications, events and much more. CEPR on the Eurozone CEPR Co-Directors Dean Baker and Mark Weisbrot issued a statement calling for action by the U.S. ...

40. AAPI Workers Less Unionized than Overall Workforce in 46 States
(Matching tags: jobs, unions, AAPI)

Earlier this year, CEPR released Size and Characteristics of States’ Union Workforces, which includes Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) workers as a share of the overall and unionized workforces ...