Making Jobs Good

John Schmitt and Janelle Jones

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Abstract: A series of earlier CEPR reports documented a substantial decline over the last three decades in the share of “good jobs” in the U.S. economy. This fall-off in job quality took place despite a large increase in the educational attainment and age of the workforce, as well as the productivity of the average U.S. worker. This report evaluates the likely impact of several policies that seek to address job quality, including universal health insurance, a universal retirement system (over and above Social Security), a large increase in college attainment, a large increase in unionization, and gender pay equity.

Keywords: good jobs; retirement; pensions; health insurance; wages; labor; education; bad jobs; gender; pay equity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I2 I24 I25 J J1 J11 J15 J3 J31 J32 J38 J5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 15 pages
Date: 2013-04
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