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Working Papers

2015

1. Failing on Two Fronts: The U.S. Labor Market Since 2000
   CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
2. Who Would Pay More if the Social Security Payroll Tax Cap Were Raised or Scrapped?
   CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)

2014

3. A College Degree is No Guarantee
   CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (6)
4. Regulation of Public Sector Collective Bargaining in the States
   CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (5)
5. Scrapping the Social Security Payroll Tax Cap: Who Would Pay More?
   CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (1)
6. State Union Membership, 2013
   CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
7. Union Advantage for Black Workers
   CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (1)
8. Women, Working Families, and Unions
   CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (2)

2013

9. Has Education Paid Off for Black Workers?
   CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (1)
10. Making Jobs Good
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article Making Jobs Good, Challenge, Taylor & Francis Journals (2013) View citations (1) (2013)
11. Raising the Social Security Payroll Tax Cap: How Many Workers Would Pay More?
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
12. State Union Membership, 2012
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
13. Why Does the Minimum Wage Have No Discernible Effect on Employment?
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (104)
14. Women Workers and Unions
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)

2012

15. Bad Jobs on the Rise
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (4)
16. Down and Out: Measuring Long-term Hardship in the Labor Market
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (1)
17. Health-insurance Coverage for Low-wage Workers, 1979-2010 and Beyond
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (1)
18. Long-term Hardship in the Labor Market
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
19. Low-wage Lessons
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
20. Low-wage Workers Are Older and Better Educated than Ever
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
21. Where Have All the Good Jobs Gone?
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (3)
22. Who's (Still) Above the Social Security Payroll Tax Cap?
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)

2011

23. Deconstructing Structural Unemployment
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (15)
24. Diversity and Change: Asian American and Pacific Islander Workers
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (1)
25. Labor Market Policy in the Great Recession: Some Lessons from Denmark and Germany
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (6)
26. Politics Matter: Changes in Unionization Rates in Rich Countries, 1960-2010
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (6)
    See also Journal Article Politics matter: changes in unionisation rates in rich countries, 1960–2010, Industrial Relations Journal, Wiley Blackwell (2012) View citations (10) (2012)
27. The Wage and Employment Impact of Minimum-Wage Laws in Three Cities
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (11)
28. Unions and Upward Mobility for Asian American and Pacific Islander Workers
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
29. Who's Above the Social Security Payroll Tax Cap?
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)

2010

30. Health-Insurance Coverage Rates for US Workers, 1979-2008
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (5)
31. Low-Wage Work in the Wealthy World
    Post-Print, HAL View citations (29)
    Also in Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Post-Print and Working Papers), HAL (2010) View citations (38)
32. The High Budgetary Cost of Incarceration
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (11)
    Also in CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) (2010) View citations (9)
33. The Unions of the States
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (3)
34. The Urgent Need for Job Creation
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (2)
35. The Wage Penalty for State and Local Government Employees in New England
    Working Papers, Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts at Amherst View citations (8)
36. The impact of institutions on the supply side of the low-wage labor market
    Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Post-Print and Working Papers), HAL View citations (3)
    Also in Post-Print, HAL (2010) View citations (3)
37. Unions and Upward Mobility for Immigrant Workers
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (1)

2009

38. An International Comparison of Small Business Employment
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (12)
39. Contagion Nation: A Comparison of Paid Sick Day Policies in 22 Countries
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (34)
40. Dropping the Ax: Illegal Firings During Union Election Campaigns, 1951-2007
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (5)
41. Inequality as Policy: The United States Since 1979
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (7)
42. Is the U.S. Unemployment Rate Today Already as High as It Was in 1982?
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (1)
43. Paid Sick Days Don’t Cause Unemployment
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
44. The $1 Trillion Wage Deficit
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article The $1 Trillion Wage Deficit, Challenge, Taylor & Francis Journals (2010) (2010)
45. The Changing Face of Labor, 1983-2008
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (2)
46. U.S. Unemployment Now as High as Europe
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
47. Unions and Upward Mobility for Asian Pacific American Workers
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
48. Unions and Upward Mobility for Service-Sector Workers
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (1)

2008

49. 'Misunderestimating' Living Standards
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
50. Movin’ On Up: Reforming America’s Social Contract to Provide a Bridge to the Middle Class
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
51. Parental Leave Policies in 21 Countries: Assessing Generosity and Gender Equality
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (24)
52. Slow-Motion Recession: What Congress Can Do to Help
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article A Slow-Motion Recession: What Congress Can Do to Help, Challenge, Taylor & Francis Journals (2008) View citations (1) (2008)
53. The Changing Prospects for Building Home Equity: An Updated Analysis of Rents and the Price of Housing in 100 Metropolitan Areas
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
54. The Decline in African-American Representation in Unions and Manufacturing, 1979-2007
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (2)
55. The Economic Impact of a U.S. Slowdown on the Americas
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
56. The Key to Stabilizing House Prices: Bring Them Down
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
57. The Reagan Question: Are You Better Off Now Than You Were Eight Years Ago?
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (1)
58. The Union Wage Advantage for Low-Wage Workers
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (6)
59. Unions and Upward Mobility for African-American Workers
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (1)
60. Unions and Upward Mobility for Latino Workers
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (7)
61. Unions and Upward Mobility for Women Workers
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (1)
62. What We’re In For: Projected Economic Impact of the Next Recession
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (1)

2007

63. Comparative Service Consumption in six Countries
    Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Post-Print and Working Papers), HAL
    Also in Post-Print, HAL (2007) View citations (1)
64. Dropping the Ax: Illegal Firings During Union Election Campaigns
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (10)
65. The Decline in African-American Representation in Unions and Manufacturing, 1979-2006
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)

2006

66. Analysis of NY 'Fair Share for Health Care' Bill
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
67. Are Protective Labor Market Institutions Really at the Root of Unemployment? A Critical Perspective on the Statistical Evidence
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (18)
68. Changing Patterns in the Relative Economic Performance of Immigrants to Great Britain and the U.S., 1980-2000
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (3)
69. Employment Regulation and French Unemployment: Were the French Students Right After All?
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
70. Is the U.S. a Good Model for Reducing Social Exclusion in Europe?
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (7)
71. Missing Inaction: Evidence of Undercounting of Non-Workers in the Current Population Survey
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (5)
72. Old Europe Goes to Work: Rising Employment Rates in the European Union
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
73. The Decline in African-American Representation in Unions and Auto Manufacturing, 1979-2004
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
74. The Impact of Undercounting in the Current Population Survey
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (1)
75. Whatever Happened to the American Jobs Machine?
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)

2005

76. Correcting Employment Rates in the 2000 Decennial Census Using Information from the CPS-Census 2000
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (1)
77. How Good is the Economy at Creating Good Jobs?
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (4)
78. Labor Markets and Economic Inequality in the United States Since the End of the 1970s
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
79. The Impact of Proposed Minimum-Wage Increase on Low-Income Families
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)

2004

80. Employment differences in services: the role of wages, productivity and demand
    DEMPATEM Working Papers, AIAS, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies View citations (2)
81. Estimating household consumption expenditures in the United States using the Interview and Diary portions of the 1980, 1990, and 1997 Consumer Expenditure Surveys
    DEMPATEM Working Papers, AIAS, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies View citations (1)
82. Is There an Impact of Household Computer Ownership on Childrens Educational Attainment in Britain?
    CEP Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE View citations (2)
    Also in LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library (2004) View citations (2)
    See also Journal Article Is there an impact of household computer ownership on children's educational attainment in Britain?, Economics of Education Review, Elsevier (2006) View citations (46) (2006)
83. Los inmigrantes mexicanos, salvadoreños y dominicanos en el mercado laboral estadounidense: las brechas de género en los años 1990 y 2000
    Estudios y Perspectivas – Sede Subregional de la CEPAL en México, Naciones Unidas Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) View citations (3)
84. Unemployment and labour market institutions: the failure of the empirical case for deregulation
    ILO Working Papers, International Labour Organization View citations (21)

2003

85. Labor Market Institutions and Unemployment: A Critical Assessment of the Cross-Country Evidence
    Economics Series Working Papers, University of Oxford, Department of Economics View citations (137)
    Also in SCEPA working paper series., Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (SCEPA), The New School (2002) View citations (109)

2002

86. Give PC's a chance: personal computer ownership and the digital divide in the United States and Great Britain
    LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library View citations (5)
    Also in CEP Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE (2002) View citations (6)
87. Is the OECD Jobs Strategy Behind US and British Employment and Unemployment Success in the 1990s?
    SCEPA working paper series., Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (SCEPA), The New School View citations (7)

1993

88. Job Search Activity and Changing Unemployment Benefit Entitlement: Pseudo-Panel Estimates for Britain
    CEP Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE View citations (4)
89. The Changing Structure of Male Earnings in Britain
    CEP Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE View citations (14)
90. The changing structure of male earnings in Britain, 1974-88
    LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library View citations (4)

1991

91. A Test of the Effect of Benefits on Search Activity in a Model of Endogenous Job Offer Arrivals
    CEP Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE

Journal Articles

2017

1. Comments on “Domestic Outsourcing, Rent Seeking, and Increasing Inequality†by Eileen Appelbaum
   Review of Radical Political Economics, 2017, 49, (4), 529-533

2016

2. Trends in Job Quality for African-American Workers, 1979–2011
   The Review of Black Political Economy, 2016, 43, (1), 1-19

2015

3. Explaining the Small Employment Effects of the Minimum Wage in the United States
   Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, 2015, 54, (4), 547-581 View citations (37)

2013

4. Making Jobs Good
   Challenge, 2013, 56, (4), 6-21 View citations (1)
   See also Working Paper Making Jobs Good, CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs (2013) View citations (1) (2013)

2012

5. Down and Out
   Challenge, 2012, 55, (3), 5-20 View citations (1)
6. Politics matter: changes in unionisation rates in rich countries, 1960–2010
   Industrial Relations Journal, 2012, 43, (3), 260-280 View citations (10)
   See also Working Paper Politics Matter: Changes in Unionization Rates in Rich Countries, 1960-2010, CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs (2011) View citations (6) (2011)
7. Why Don't More Young People Go to College?
   Challenge, 2012, 55, (4), 78-93

2010

8. Rebound: Why America Will Emerge Stronger from the Financial Crisis, by Stephen J. Rose
   Challenge, 2010, 53, (5), 92-97 View citations (1)
9. The $1 Trillion Wage Deficit
   Challenge, 2010, 53, (2), 47-53
   See also Working Paper The $1 Trillion Wage Deficit, CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs (2009) View citations (1) (2009)

2009

10. Is the U.S. Unemployment Rate Already as High as It Was in the 1980s?
    Challenge, 2009, 52, (5), 117-125 View citations (1)

2008

11. A Slow-Motion Recession: What Congress Can Do to Help
    Challenge, 2008, 51, (5), 5-19 View citations (1)
    See also Working Paper Slow-Motion Recession: What Congress Can Do to Help, CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs (2008) View citations (1) (2008)
12. The Crisis of the European Union
    Challenge, 2008, 51, (1), 69-77
13. The Decline of Good Jobs
    Challenge, 2008, 51, (1), 5-25 View citations (11)
14. What We're In For
    Challenge, 2008, 51, (3), 27-42 View citations (2)

2007

15. Are Protective Labor Market Institutions at the Root of Unemployment? A Critical Review of the Evidence
    Capitalism and Society, 2007, 2, (1), 73 View citations (128)
16. Changes in the Relative Economic Performance of Immigrants to Great Britain and the United States, 1980–2000
    British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2007, 45, (4), 659-686 View citations (10)
17. Old Europe Goes to Work
    Challenge, 2007, 50, (3), 99-106

2006

18. Is there an impact of household computer ownership on children's educational attainment in Britain?
    Economics of Education Review, 2006, 25, (6), 659-673 View citations (46)
    See also Working Paper Is There an Impact of Household Computer Ownership on Childrens Educational Attainment in Britain?, CEP Discussion Papers (2004) View citations (2) (2004)
19. Labor Market Reforms: The Evidence Does Not Tell the Orthodox Tale
    Challenge, 2006, 49, (2), 5-22 View citations (11)

2005

20. Is It Time to Export the U.S. Tax Model to Latin America?
    Challenge, 2005, 48, (3), 84-108 View citations (3)

2004

21. Is globalisation undermining the welfare state?
    Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2004, 28, (1), 133-152 View citations (11)
22. The Rise in Job Displacement, 1991-2004
    Challenge, 2004, 47, (6), 46-68 View citations (2)

1998

23. The United States Is Not Ahead in Everything That Matters
    Challenge, 1998, 41, (6), 39-59

1996

24. Education isn't everything Widening earnings gaps are as much the result of other policies
    New Economy, 1996, 3, (4), 204-208
25. The State of American Workers
    Challenge, 1996, 39, (6), 33-42 View citations (1)

1993

26. Unemployment Benefit Levels and Search Activity
    Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 1993, 55, (1), 1-24 View citations (35)

Chapters

1995

1. The Changing Structure of Male Earnings in Britain, 1974-1988
   A chapter in Differences and Changes in Wage Structures, 1995, pp 177-204 View citations (15)