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Issues in Trade and Protectionism
from cepr in Research, Business & Economics
There is widespread concern that the United States and the rest of the world are descending into a round of protectionism and a trade war reminiscent of what the world experienced in the Great Depression. Such concerns are both overblown and misplaced. In the short term, the main concern in the U...
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Unions and Upward Mobility for Asian Pacific American Wor...
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Asian Pacific American workers are, with Latinos, the fastest growing group in the U.S. workforce and in organized labor. Since the late 1980s, APA workers have seen their representation in the ranks of U.S. unions almost double, from about 2.5 percent of all union workers in 1989 to about 4.6 pe...
Unions and Upward Mobility for Asian Pacific American Wor...
from cepr
Asian Pacific American workers are, with Latinos, the fastest growing group in the U.S. workforce and in organized labor. Since the late 1980s, APA workers have seen their representation in the ranks of U.S. unions almost double, from about 2.5 percent of all union workers in 1989 to about 4.6 pe...
The Changing Face of Labor, 1983-2009
from cepr in Research, Business & Economics
Over the last quarter century, the unionized workforce has changed dramatically, according to this new CEPR report. In 2008, union workers reflected trends in the workforce as a whole toward a greater share of women, Latinos, Asian Pacific Americans, older, more-educated workers, and a shift out ...
Honduras: Recent Economic Performance
from cepr in Research, Business & Economics
During the Zelaya administration, the Honduran economy performed well. The country remains poor, but social and economic policy contributed to reduce inequality and poverty. Currently, the combination of political instability and the world recession is taking its toll on economic performance and...
CEPR Responds to the IMF’s Reply and Defense of Its Polic...
from cepr in Research, Business & Economics
This paper is part of a discussion between CEPR and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) regarding CEPR’s paper, “IMF-Supported Macroeconomic Policies and the World Recession: A Look at Forty-One Borrowing Countries.” An IMF representative presented a response to that paper at an October 15, 200...
The Value of the “Too Big to Fail” Big Bank Subsidy
One outcome of the TARP and other bank rescue efforts following the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September of 2008 is that the United States has essentially formalized a commitment to a “too big to fail” (TBTF) policy for major banks. This paper uses data from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp...
The Value of the “Too Big to Fail” Big Bank Subsidy
One outcome of the TARP and other bank rescue efforts following the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September of 2008 is that the United States has essentially formalized a commitment to a “too big to fail” (TBTF) policy for major banks. This paper uses data from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp...
Inequality as Policy: The United States Since 1979
from cepr in Research, Business & Economics
Since the end of the 1970s, the United States has seen a dramatic increase in economic inequality.While the United States has long been among the most unequal of the world’s rich economies, the economic and social upheaval that began in the 1970s was a striking departure from the movement toward ...
Job Sharing: Tax Credits to Prevent Layoffs and Stimulate...
from cepr in Research, Business & Economics
The unemployment rate is expected to average 10.2 percent for 2010, 9.1 percent for 2011, and 7.3 percent for 2012. With this in mind, this Issue Brief describes a job sharing tax credit, designed to provide a quick and substantial boost to the economy. It would use tax dollars to pay firms to ...
Free Trade in Health Care: The Gains from Globalized Medi...
from cepr in Research, Business & Economics
The huge gap between the cost of health care in the United States and the cost in other countries with comparable health care outcomes suggests the potential for substantial gains from trade. This paper describes one mechanism for taking advantage of these gains – through a globalization of the c...
The Value of the “Too Big to Fail” Big Bank Subsidy
One outcome of the TARP and other bank rescue efforts following the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September of 2008 is that the United States has essentially formalized a commitment to a “too big to fail” (TBTF) policy for major banks. This paper uses data from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp...
IMF-Supported Macroeconomic Policies and the World Recess...
from cepr in Research, Business & Economics
The paper examines IMF agreements with the countries Afghanistan, Armenia, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Burkina Faso, Burundi, The Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, Djibouti, El Salvador, Gabon, The Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Grenada, Guatemala, Haiti, H...
Reimbursement Roulette: The Baucus Bill’s Too Playful App...
Two of the three leading health care reform proposals being considered by Congress—the House “Tri-Committee” health care reform legislation and the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee’s reform legislation—include sensibly designed “play-or-pay” provisions that require e...
The Value of the “Too Big to Fail” Big Bank Subsidy
One outcome of the TARP and other bank rescue efforts following the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September of 2008 is that the United States has essentially formalized a commitment to a “too big to fail” (TBTF) policy for major banks. This paper uses data from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp...
Reimbursement Roulette: The Baucus Bill’s Too Playful App...
Two of the three leading health care reform proposals being considered by Congress—the House “Tri-Committee” health care reform legislation and the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee’s reform legislation—include sensibly designed “play-or-pay” provisions that require e...
Cut Loose: State and Local Layoffs of Public Employees in...
In the current recession, millions of Americans have lost their jobs. Unemployment has increased nationwide to levels not witnessed since the 1980s. This issue brief tallies more than 110,000 jobs that have been shed from state and local governments in the last two years. Without the stimulus pa...
More Budget Belt-Tightening Means More Job Losses for States
from cepr in Research, Business & Economics
This paper looks at the problem of state budget shortfalls during the recession and calculates the number of jobs that would be lost (nationally and by state) if states utilize pro-cyclical spending cuts in an attempt to balance their budgets. This is an update to an earlier paper from December ...
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