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Appelbaum, Eileen, Heather Boushey, and John Schmitt. “The Economic Importance of Women’s Rising Hours of Work: Time to Update Employment Standards,” Center for American Progress and Center for Economic and Policy Research Report, April 2014.
Attewell, Paul, Philip Kasinitz, and Kathleen Dunn. Black Canadians and Black Americans: Racial Income Inequality in Comparative Perspective. Ethnic and Racial Studies 33.3: 473-495, 2010.
Bahn, Kate, Adriana Kugler, Melissa Holly Mahoney, and Annie McGrew. “Do US TRAP Laws Trap Women Into Bad Jobs?”, Feminist Economics 26, no. 1 (2020): 44-97.
Baker, Dean and Hye Jin Rho. “The Potential Savings to Social Security from Means Testing,” Center for Economic and Policy Research Briefing Paper, March 2011.
Baker, Dean and David Rosnick. “The Impact of Cutting Social Security Cost of Living Adjustments on the Living Standards of the Elderly,” Center for Economic and Policy Research, September 2011.
Barr, Nicholas, Bruce Chapman, Lorraine Dearden, and Susan Dynarski. The US college loans system: Lessons from Australia and England. Economics of Education Review 71: 32-48 (2019).
Boushey, Heather. “Are Women Opting Out? Debunking the Myth,” Center for Economic and Policy Research, November 2005.
Boushey, Heather, Jane Farrell, and John Schmitt. “Job Protection Isn’t Enough: Why America Needs Paid Parental Leave,” Center for American Progress and Center for Economic and Policy Research Report, December 2013.
Boushey, Heather and John Schmitt.”Job Tenure and Firm Size Provisions Exclude Many Young Parents from Family and Medical Leave.,” Center for Economic and Policy Research Briefing Paper, June 2007.
Boushey, Heather and John Schmitt. “Impact of Proposed Minimum-Wage Increase on Low-income Families,” Center for Economic and Policy Research Briefing Paper, December 2005.
Boushey, Heather and John Schmitt. “Hard Times in the New Millennium: The Fate of Youth in the Bush Years.” Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, November 2003.
Brown, Hayley and Hye Jin Rho. Union Membership Byte 2020. Center for Economic and Policy Research, January 2020.
Bronfenbrenner, Kate, and Dorian T. Warren. Race, gender, and the rebirth of trade unionism. New Labor Forum. Vol. 16. No. 3/4. Sage Publications, Inc., 2007.
Bruno, Robert, and Branzo, Frank. Road and Bridge Construction Workers in the Midwest. The National Alliance for Fair Contracting, March 2015.
Cairó, Isabel, Henry Hyatt, and Nellie Zhao. The US Job Ladder in the New Millennium. Society for Economic Dynamics Conference in Warsaw, Poland. February 2015.***
Case, Anne and Angus Deaton. “Mortality and Morbidity in the 21st Century,” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Spring 2017.
Childress, Michael T., Jenny Minier, William H. Hoyt, and Simon Sheather. “Kentucky Annual Economic Report 2019,” Center for Business and Economic Research, University of Kentucky, February 2019.
Ciccarelli, Nicola. “The Effects of Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Premiums on Employment and Wages: Evidence from US Longitudinal Data.” Review of Economic Analysis 11, no. 3 (February 2019).
Clark, Michael W., William H. Hoyt, Simon Sheather, and Michael T. Childress. “Kentucky Annual Economic Report 2020,” Center for Business and Economic Research, University of Kentucky, February 2020.
Conran, James (James Kelly). The Comparative Economy of Working Time. Diss., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017.
Freeman, Richard, et al. How Does Declining Unionism Affect the American Middle Class and Intergenerational Mobility? No. w21638. National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2015.
Fremstad, Shawn. “Maintain and Improving Social Security for Direct Care Workers,” Center for Economic and Policy Research and Direct Care Alliance, Inc. Report, November 2011.
Furth, Salim. Understanding the Data on Occupational Licensing. The Heritage Foundation, September 2016.
Gorina, Evgenia, and Trang Hoang. Pension Reforms and Public Sector Turnover. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. June 2019.
Gurley-Calvez, Tami, Katherine Harper, and Amelia Biehl. Self-Employed Women and Time Use. Washington, DC: SBA Office of Advocacy, February 2009.
Hoffman, Saul D., and Diane M. Trace. NJ and PA Once Again: What Happened to Employment When the PA–NJ Minimum Wage Differential Disappeared? Eastern Economic Journal 35.1: 115-128, January 2009.
Hummel, Albert Jan. Unemployment and Tax Design. Erasmus University Rotterdam and Tinbergen Institute, January 2019.
Jacobs, Ken, Ian Perry, and Jenifer MacGillvary. The Public Cost of Low-Wage Work in New England. Communities and Banking, Boston Federal Reserve, Spring 2016.
Jones, Janelle and John Schmitt. “A College Degree is No Guarantee,” Center for Economic and Policy Research Report, May 2014.
Jones, Janelle and John Schmitt. “Union Advantage for Black Workers,” Center for Economic and Policy Research Report, February 2014.
Jones, Janelle and John Schmitt. “Has Education Paid Off for Black Workers?” Center for Economic and Policy Research Report, June 2013.
Jones, Janelle, John Schmitt, and Nicole Woo. “Women, Working Families, and Unions,” Center for Economic and Policy Research Report, June 2014.
Jorgensen, Helene. Does It Pay to Volunteer? The Relationship Between Volunteer Work and Paid Work. Washington DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, June 2013.
Kamara, Jennifer. Decomposing the Wage Gap: Analysis of the Wage Gap Between Racial and Ethnic Minorities and Whites. Pepperdine Policy Review 8.1: 1. June 2015.
Kling, Jeffrey R. Path to Prosperity: Hamilton Project Ideas on Income Security, Education, and Taxes. Furman, Jason and Bordoff, Jason E., eds. Brookings Institution Press, November 2008.
Lalé, Etienne. Labor-market frictions, incomplete insurance and severance payments. Review of Economic Dynamics 31: 411-435. January 2019.
McMullen, Steven. Economic Status, Prior. The New Faces of American Poverty: A Reference Guide to the Great Recession [2 Volumes]: A Reference Guide to the Great Recession. Lindsey K. Hanson and Timothy J. Essenburg, eds. ABC-CLIO, September 2014.
Miller, Curtis. Explaining Utah’s Gender Gap in Wages. Diss., Department of Economics, University of Utah, 2015.
Mishel, Lawrence, Heidi Shierholz, and John Schmitt. “Don’t Blame the Robots: Assessing the Job Polarization Explanation of Growing Wage Inequality,” Economic Policy Institute and Center for Economic and Policy Research, November 2013.
Nadler, Carl, Sylvia Allegretto, Anna Godoey, and Michael Reich. “Are Local Minimum Wages Too High?” Working Paper #102-19, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, University of California, Berkeley, 2019.
Nicholas, Lauren H., and Johanna Catherine Maclean. The Effect of Medical Marijuana Laws on the Health and Labor Supply of Older Adults: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study. No. w22688. National Bureau of Economic Research, March 2016.
Pana, Francis. La sensibilité des salaires des diplômés et moins diplômés est-elle la même face aux fluctuations économiques? University of Montreal, August 2013.
Parks, Virginia. Chicago’s Low‐wage Workforce: Disparities by Race and Gender. University of Chicago, 2014.
Pascal, Julien. “Labor Income Shocks along the Business Cycle.” March 2019.
Ray, Rebecca, Milla Sanes, and John Schmitt. “No-Vacation Nation Revisited,” Center for Economic and Policy Research Report, May 2013.
Reynolds, Nicholas. “A Decline in the Health and Human Capital of Americans Born After 1947,” Brown University, November 2019.
Rho, Hye Jin. “Hard Work in the Public Sector,” Center for Economic and Policy Research Briefing Paper, October 2010.
Rho, Hye Jin. “Hard Work?: Patterns in Physically Demanding Labor Among Older Workers,” Center for Economic and Policy Research Briefing Paper, August 2010.
Rho, Hye Jin, and Hayley Brown. Union Membership Byte 2019. Center for Economic and Policy Research, March 2019.
Rho, Hye Jin.and John Schmitt. “Health-Insurance Coverage Rates for US Workers, 1979-2008,” Center for Economic and Policy Research Briefing Paper, March 2010.
Rosnick, David and John Schmitt. “The Wage and Employment Impact of Minimum-Wage Laws In Three Cities,” Center for Economic and Policy Research Briefing Paper, March 2011.
Rosnick, David. “The Adult Recession: Age-Adjusted Unemployment at Post-War Highs,” Center for Economic and Policy Research Briefing Paper, August 2010.
Rothstein, Jesse. 2019. The Lost Generation? Scarring after the Great Recession. Working Paper, University of California, Berkeley.
Schmitt, John. “Health-insurance Coverage for Low-wage Workers, 1979-2010 and Beyond,” Center for Economic and Policy Research and Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor Report, February 2012.
Schmitt, John. “Low-wage Lessons,” Center for Economic and Policy Research Report, January 2012.
Schmitt, John. “The Wage Penalty for State and Local Government Employees,” Center for Economic and Policy Research Briefing Paper, May 2010.
Schmitt, John. “Unions and Upward Mobility for Immigrant Workers,” Center for Economic and Policy Research Briefing Paper, March 2010.
Schmitt, John. “The Unions of the States,” Center for Economic and Policy Research Briefing Paper, February 2010.
Schmitt, John. “Unions and Upward Mobility for Service-Sector Workers,” Center for Economic and Policy Research Briefing Paper, April 2009.
Schmitt, John. “Unions and Upward Mobility for Young Workers,” Center for Economic and Policy Research Briefing Paper, October 2008.
Schmitt, John. “Unions and Upward Mobility for Latino Workers,” Center for Economic and Policy Research Briefing Paper, September 2008.
Schmitt, John. “The Union Wage Advantage for Low-Wage Workers,” Center for Economic and Policy Research Briefing Paper, May 2008.
Schmitt, John. “Unions and Upward Mobility for African-American Workers,” Center for Economic and Policy Research Briefing Paper, March 2008.
Schmitt, John. “The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly: Job Quality in the United States over the Three Most Recent Business Cycles.,” Center for Economic and Policy Research Briefing Paper, November 2007.
Schmitt, John. “Labor markets and economic inequality in the United States since the end of the 1970s,”International Journal of Health Services, vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 655-673; this is a revised and updated version of “Mercados de trabajo y desigualdad en el plano económico en los Estados Unidos desde finales de la década de los años setenta,” in Gerardo Fujii and Santos M. Ruesga (eds.), El trabajo en un mundo globalizado, Madrid: Ediciones Pirámide, 2004. [Here is a working-paper version of the paper.]
Schmitt, John. “The rise in job displacement, 1991-2004: the crisis in American manufacturing,” Challenge, vol. 47, no. 6 (November – December 2004), pp. 46-68. [A briefing-paper version of this paper is available from the Center for Economic and Policy Research.]
Schmitt, John. “Recent job loss hits the African-American middle class hard,” Center for Economic and Policy Research Briefing Paper, October 2004.
Schmitt, John. “Labor market performance in Pennsylvania, 2001-2004: Pennsylvania lags behind the Nation,” “Labor market performance in Michigan, 2001-2004: Michigan lags behind the nation,” and “Labor market performance in Ohio, 2001-2004: Ohio lags behind the nation,” Center for Economic and Policy Research Briefing Papers, September 2004.
Schmitt, John and Dean Baker. “The Impact of Undercounting in the Current Population Survey,” Center for Economic and Policy Research, August 2006.
Schmitt, John and Dean Baker. “Missing Inaction: Evidence of Undercounting of Non-Workers in the Current Population Survey,” Center for Economic and Policy Research Briefing Paper, January 2006.
Schmitt, John and Dean Baker. “Correcting Employment Rates in the 2000 Decennial Census Using Information from the CPS-Census 2000 Match,” Center for Economic and Policy Research Briefing Paper, May 2005.
Schmitt, John and Dean Baker. “Bad Times: The Impact of Changes in Work Schedules on Productivity Growth,” Center for Economic and Policy Research Briefing Paper, November 2004.
Schmitt, John and Janelle Jones. “Slow Progress for Fast-Food Workers,” Center for Economic and Policy Research Issue Brief, August 2013.
Schmitt, John and Janelle Jones. “Making Jobs Good,” Center for Economic and Policy Research Report, April 2013.
Schmitt, John and Janelle Jones. “Low-wage Workers Are Older and Better Educated than Ever,” Center for Economic and Policy Research Issue Brief, April 2012.
Schmitt, John and Janelle Jones. “Long-term Hardship in the Labor Market,” Center for Economic and Policy Research Report, March 2012.
Schmitt, John, and Janelle Jones. “Down and Out: Measuring Long-term Hardship in the Labor Market,” Center for Economic and Policy Research Report, January 2012.
Schmitt, John, Janelle Jones, and Milla Sanes. “State Union Membership, 2012,” Center for Economic and Policy Research Issue Brief, January 2013.
Schmitt, John, Hye Jin Rho, and Nicole Woo. “Unions and Upward Mobility for Asian American and Pacific Islander Workers,” Center for Economic and Policy Research Briefing Paper, January 2011.
Schmitt, John and Jeffrey Thompson. “The Wage Penalty for State and Local Government Employees in New England,” Center for Economic and Policy Research Briefing Paper, September 2010
Schmitt, John Margy Waller, Shawn Fremstad and Ben Zipperer. “Unions and Upward Mobility for Low-Wage Workers,” Center for Economic and Policy Research Briefing Paper, August 2007.
Schmitt, John and Kris Warner. “Ex-Offenders and the Labor Market,” Center for Economic and Policy Research Briefing Paper, November 2010.
Schmitt, John and Kris Warner. “The Changing Face of Labor, 1983-2008,” Center for Economic and Policy Research Briefing Paper, November 2009.
Schmitt, John, and Nicole Woo. “Women Workers and Unions,” Center for Economic and Policy Research Issue Brief, December 2013.
Schmitt, John and Ben Zipperer. “Dropping the Ax: Illegal Firings During Union Election Campaigns, 1951-2007,” Center for Economic and Policy Research Briefing Paper, March 2009.
Schmitt, John and Ben Zipperer. “The Decline in African-American Representation in Unions and Manufacturing, 1979-2007.,” Center for Economic and Policy Research Briefing Paper, February 2008.
Schmitt, John and Ben Zipperer. “The Decline in African-American Representation in Unions and Manufacturing, 1979-2006,” Center for Economic and Policy Research Issue Brief, March 2007.
Schmitt, John and Ben Zipperer. “Union Rates Fall in 2006, Severe Drop in Manufacturing,” Center for Economic and Policy Research Union Representation Byte, January 2007.
Schmitt, John and Ben Zipperer. “Dropping the Ax: Illegal Firings During Union Election Campaigns,” Center for Economic and Policy Research, January 2007.
Schmitt, John and Ben Zipperer. “The Decline in African-American Representation in Unions and Auto Manufacturing, 1979-2004,” Center for Economic and Policy Research Issue Brief, January 2006.
Schmitt, John and Ben Zipperer. “Unions Hold Their Own in 2005,” Center for Economic and Policy Research Union Representation Byte, January 2006.
Schulz, Richard, Jill Eden, and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. “Older adults who need caregiving and the family caregivers who help them.” In Families Caring for an Aging America. National Academies Press (US), 2016.
Scott, Jason, John B. Shoven, Sita Slavov, and John G. Watson. Retirement Implications of a Low Wage Growth, Low Real Interest Rate Economy. No. w25556. National Bureau of Economic Research, 2019.
Seligman, Jason S. and Jeffrey B. Wenger. “Asynchronous Risk: Unemployment, Equity Markets, and Retirement Savings.” Upjohn Institute Working Paper (05-114), June 2005.
Vaghul, Kavya. “The child care conundrum: the costs and consequences of unmet early child care needs among parents working at academic institutions across the United States.” PhD diss., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019.
Wicks-Lim, Jeannette, and Robert Pollin. The Costs to Fast-Food Restaurants of a Minimum Wage Increase to $10.50 per Hour. Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, September 2013.
Williams, Sean. What Do the States Tell us About Rising Top Income Shares? Diss., The University of Minnesota, May 2014.
Zickuhr, Kathryn Michael. When Uber comes to town: The impact of transportation network companies on metropolitan labor markets. Diss., Georgetown University, 2016.

Research using CEPR One Percent PUMS Uniform Extracts

Huato, Julio, and Kathryn Woodbury Zeno. Class, Race, and the Spousal Income Gap: The Effects of Family Income, Educational Attainment, and Race-Ethnicity on the Husband-Wife Income Ratio in the United States, 1980, 1990, 2000. American Behavioral Scientist 53.2: 261-275, September 2009.
Jones, Janelle and John Schmitt. “A College Degree is No Guarantee,” Center for Economic and Policy Research Report, May 2014.
Schmitt, John. “Changing patterns of economic mobility of immigrants to the United States, 1980-2000,” paper prepared for the LoWER Annual Conference, Mannheim, Germany, April 2005.
Schmitt, John and Dean Baker. “The Impact of Undercounting in the Current Population Survey,” Center for Economic and Policy Research, August 2006.
Schmitt, John and Dean Baker. “Missing Inaction: Evidence of Undercounting of Non-Workers in the Current Population Survey,” Center for Economic and Policy Research Briefing Paper, January 2006.
Schmitt, John and Dean Baker. “Correcting Employment Rates in the 2000 Decennial Census Using Information from the CPS-Census 2000 Match,” Center for Economic and Policy Research Briefing Paper, May 2005.
Schmitt, John and Dean Baker. “Bad Times: The Impact of Changes in Work Schedules on Productivity Growth,” Center for Economic and Policy Research Briefing Paper, November 2004.

Research using CEPR ACS Uniform Extracts

Barber, Alan, and Hayley Brown. “Who Pays if We Modify the Social Security Payroll Tax Cap?” Center for Economic and Policy Research, February 2019.
Constance Lindsay, Erica Blom, and Alexandra Tilsley. “Diversifying the Classroom: Examining the Teacher Pipeline,” Urban Institute, October 2017.
Erickson, Ryan, and Danielle Corley. Fast Facts: Economic Security for Pennsylvania Families. Center for American Progress, August 2016.
Jones, Janelle and John Schmitt. “A College Degree is No Guarantee,” Center for Economic and Policy Research Report, May 2014.
MacDonald, Daniel. “The Effect of the 2014 Federal Housing Administration Loan Limit Reductions on Homeownership Decisions.” Housing Policy Debate 29, no. 2 (2019): 380-396.
Rho, Hye Jin, Nicole Woo, John Schmitt, Lucia Lin, and Kent Wong. “Diversity and Change: Asian American and Pacific Islander Workers,” Center for Economic and Policy Research Report, July 2011.
Sommers, Benjamin D., Genevieve M. Kenney, and Arnold M. Epstein. New Evidence On The Affordable Care Act: Coverage Impacts Of Early Medicaid Expansions. Health Affairs 33.1: 78-87, 2014.
Woo, Nicole, Janelle Jones, and John Schmitt. “Scrapping the Social Security Payroll Tax Cap: Who Would Pay More?” Center for Economic and Policy Research Issue Brief, April 2014.
Woo, Nicole, Janelle Jones, and John Schmitt. “Raising the Social Security Payroll Tax Cap: How Many Workers Would Pay More?” Center for Economic and Policy Research Issue Brief, January 2013.
Woo, Nicole, Janelle Jones, and John Schmitt. “Who’s Above the Social Security Payroll Tax Cap?,” Center for Economic and Policy Research Briefing Paper, September 2011.

Research using CEPR SIPP Uniform Extracts

Boushey, Heather. “No Way Out,” WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor and Society, Vol. 8 (6): 659-70, December 2005.
Boushey, Heather. “The Effects on Employment and Wages When Working Mothers Lose Medicaid.” International Journal of Health Services, Vol. 35(4): 719 – 743, October 2005.
Boushey, Heather. “No Way Out: How Prime Age Workers Get Trapped in Minimum Wage Jobs.” Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, May 2005.
Boushey, Heather. “Family-Friendly Policies: Boosting Mother’s Wages.” Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, April 2005.
Boushey, Heather. “When Done Right, Work Supports Work: Medicaid and Mothers’ Employment and Wages.” Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, March 2005.
Boushey, Heather. “Social Security: The Most Important Anti-Poverty Program for Children.” Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, March 2005.
Boushey, Heather. “The Effects on Employment and Wages when Working Mothers Lose Medicaid and Child Care Subsidies.” Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, January 2005.
Boushey, Heather. “Who Cares? Child Care Choices of Working Mothers.” Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, Data Brief No. 1, May 2003.
Boushey, Heather and John Schmitt. “Hard Times in the New Millennium: The Fate of Youth in the Bush Years.” Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, November 2003.
Boushey, Heather, Andrew Stettner, and Jeffrey B. Wenger. “Clearing the Path to Unemployment Insurance for Low-Wage Workers: An Analysis of Alternative Base Period Implementation.” Washington, DC: National Employment Law Project and the Center for Economic and Policy Research, August 2005.
Boushey, Heather and Jeffrey B. Wenger. “Unemployment Insurance Eligibility Before and After Welfare Reform,” Journal of Poverty. 2006.
Boushey, Heather and Jeffrey B. Wenger. “Finding the Better Fit: Receiving Unemployment Insurance Increases Likelihood of Re-employment with Health Insurance.” Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, April 2005.
Boushey, Heather and Jeffrey B. Wenger. “UI is Not a Safety Net for Unemployed Former Welfare Recipients.” Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, December 2003.
Boushey, Heather and Joseph Wright. “Working Moms and Child Care.” Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, May 2004.
Boushey, Heather and Joseph Wright. “Health Insurance Coverage in the United States.” Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, April 2004.
Boushey, Heather and Joseph Wright. “Workers Receiving Employer-Provided Health Insurance.” Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, April 2004.
Boushey, Heather and Joseph Wright. “Access to Employer-Provided Health Insurance as a Dependent.” Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, April 2004.
Boushey, Heather and Joseph Wright. “Public Vs. Private Health Insurance.” Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, April 2004.
Fremstad, Shawn, Rebecca Ray and Hye Jin Rho. “Working Families and Economic Insecurity in the States: The Role of Job Quality and Work Supports,” Center for Economic and Policy Research Briefing Paper, May 2008.
Ghilarducci, Teresa, Karen E. Richman, and Wei Sun. Causes of Latinos’ Low Pension Coverage. Institute for Latino Studies, University of Notre Dame du Lac, 2007.
Schmitt, John, Janelle Jones, and Milla Sanes. “State Union Membership, 2012,” Center for Economic and Policy Research Issue Brief, January 2013.
Stettner, Andrew. Why Should Latino Workers and Their Families Care About Unemployment Insurance? New York, NY: National Employment Law Project, August 2005.
Tjaden, Volker, and Felix Wellschmied. Quantifying the Contribution of Search to Wage Inequality. American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 6.1: 134-61, January 2014.
Tjaden, Volker & Wellschmied, Felix. Exploring the Causes of Frictional Wage Dispersion. IZA Discussion Papers 6299, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), 2012.