Tax cuts for bottom 90% of earners spur job growth, research finds
…relationship between tax cuts and employment growth is largely driven by tax cuts for lower-income groups and the effect of tax cuts for the top 10 percent on employment growth…
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How unemployment affects serious property crime: A national case-control study
…and insecure employment has on an individual’s health. A number of studies also have looked at the link between unemployment and crime, with mixed results. Two scholars from Florida State University…
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The low-wage recovery: Industries and jobs after the Great Recession
…the National Employment Law Project (NELP), “The Low-Wage Recovery: Industry Employment and Wages Four Years into the Recovery,” takes a close look at the types of jobs that were lost…
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Minimum wage: Updated research roundup on the effects of increasing pay
…Increase on Employment and Family Income,” that explores two scenarios: Raising the minimum wage to $10.10 or to $9.00. The report concludes that there are distinct trade-offs. Under the $10.10…
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The China syndrome: Local labor market effects of import competition in the United States
…import competition. These include decreased employment and household incomes and increased government benefits program enrollments and transfer payments. Regions with higher exposure to imports suffer declines in manufacturing employment by…
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Impact fees on development: Do they affect jobs?
…the manufacturing sector. Impact fees had a small or insignificant impact on retail employment. The author notes that Florida’s business patterns might slightly skew employment toward service and retail employment…
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The career prospects of overeducated Americans
…are created equal, however. The choice of major can affect employment prospects and wages, but not always in predictable ways: In 2010 and 2011, the lowest unemployment rates were among…
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5 things to know about the April jobs report
…Statistics released its monthly employment situation summary, based on surveys the agency conducted in March. News outlets across the country are taking the 4.4% unemployment rate — up from 3.5%…
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Real earnings in America: Parsing strong wage growth amid high inflation
…the U.S., drawn from states’ unemployment insurance administrative records. The downside is that it is published less frequently than the Current Employment Statistics survey — and there’s a lag. The…
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“Resource curse,” poverty and Appalachia; lessons in research, data and politics
…in 2000 but net change in coal employment over the 1990-2000 decade has no statistically significant relationship.” Over the next decade, “the share of coal employment in 2000 had no…
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