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2016
- 2016-23 A Critical Review of the US State Department’s 2015 Progress Report on Haiti
by Alexander Main & Jasmine Huggins & Jake Johnston & Charissa Zehr & Jessica Hsu & Alan Yarborough - 2016-22 Brazil’s Enormous Interest Rate Tax: Can Brazilians Afford It?
by Mark Weisbrot & Jake Johnston & Julia Villarruel Carrillo - 2016-21 The Housing Bubble: Is It Back?
by Dean Baker & Lara Merling - 2016-20 The International Trade Commission’s Assessment of the Trans-Pacific Partnership: Main Findings and Implications
by Dean Baker - 2016-19 Hispanic Workers in the United States
by Cherrie Bucknor - 2016-18 Everyone Wondered How a Private Equity Firm Would Make Money in a Leveraged Buyout of a Struggling Non-Profit Hospital Chain - Now We Know
by Eileen Appelbaum - 2016-17 Have US-Funded CARSI Programs Reduced Crime and Violence in Central America? An Examination of LAPOP’S Impact Assessment of US Violence Prevention Programs in Central America
by David Rosnick & Alexander Main & Laura Jung - 2016-16 The Case for a Weak Labor Market
by Nick Buffie - 2016-15 No Big Deal: The Impact of New York City’s Paid Sick Days Law on Employers
by Eileen Appelbaum & Ruth Mikman - 2016-14 Black Workers, Unions, and Inequality
by Cherrie Bucknor - 2016-13 Working Paper: The Compensation of Highly Paid Professionals: How Much Is Rent?
by Dean Baker - 2016-12 Working Paper: Rents and Inefficiency in the Patent and Copyright System: Is There a Better Route?
by Dean Baker - 2016-11 Reining in Wall Street to Benefit All Americans
by Dean Baker - 2016-10 Are Lower Private Equity Returns the New Normal?
by Eileen Appelbaum & Rosemary Batt - 2016-09 Voting Share Reform at the IMF: Will it Make a Difference?
by Mark Weisbrot & Jake Johnston - 2016-08 Potential for Trouble: The IMF's Estimates of Potential GDP
by David Rosnick - 2016-07 The Price We Pay: Economic Costs of Barriers to Employment for Former Prisoners and People Convicted of Felonies
by Cherrie Bucknor & Alan Barber - 2016-06 Fees, Fees and More Fees: How Private Equity Abuses Its Limited Partners and U.S. Taxpayers
by Eileen Appelbaum & Rosemary Batt - 2016-05 Trade and Jobs: Can We Trust the Models?
by Dean Baker & David Rosnick - 2016-04 Still Working Hard: An Update on the Share of Older Workers in Physically Demanding Jobs
by Cherrie Bucknor & Dean Baker - 2016-03 Working Paper: Domestic Outsourcing in the United States: A Research Agenda to Assess Trends and Effects on Job Quality
by Annette Bernhardt & Rosemary Batt & Susan Houseman & Eileen Appelbaum - 2016-02 Publicly Funded Clinical Trials: A Route to Sustained Innovation with Affordable Drugs
by Dean Baker - 2016-01 Low Visibility: The Fate of Air Traffic Control Privatization
by Max B. Sawicky
2015
- 2015-27 Has Austerity Worked in Spain?
by David Rosnick & Mark Weisbrot - 2015-26 Working Paper: The Upward Redistribution of Income: Are Rents the Story?
by Dean Baker - 2015-25 The Incidence of Financial Transactions Taxes
by Dean Baker & Nicole Woo - 2015-24 The Anomaly of U-3: Why the Unemployment Rate is Overstating the Strength of Today’s Labor Market
by Nick Buffie - 2015-23 Projecting a Range of Possible Results in the December 2015 Elections for National Assembly in Venezuela
by David Rosnick - 2015-22 Pension Funding and the Economy: Would “Proper” Funding Cost Jobs?
by Dean Baker & Nick Buffie - 2015-21 Rising Disability Payments: Are Cuts to Workers’ Compensation Part of the Story?
by Nick Buffie & Dean Baker - 2015-20 Measuring Recovery: TTIP: Are 40 Cents a Day Big Gains?
by David Rosnick - 2015-19 Measuring Recovery: Aggregate Demand and the Slowdown of Brazilian Economic Growth from 2011-2014
by Franklin Serrano & Ricardo Summa - 2015-18 Measuring Recovery: Young Black America Part Four: The Wrong Way to Close the Gender Wage Gap
by Cherrie Bucknor - 2015-17 Measuring Recovery: The Impact of Exempting the Pharmaceutical Industry from Patent Reviews
by Dean Baker - 2015-16 Measuring Recovery: Young Black America Part Three: Employment, Unemployment, and the Incomplete Recovery
by Cherrie Bucknor - 2015-15 Measuring Recovery: Why the Prime-Age EPOP Ratio Tells Us to Not Raise Interest Rates
by Nicholas Buffie - 2015-14 Asian American and Pacific Islander Workers Today
by Nicole Woo, Cherrie Bucknor - 2015-13 Low-wage Workers: Still Older, Smarter, and Underpaid
by Cherrie Bucknor - 2015-12 Young Black America Part Two: College Entry and Completion
by Cherrie Bucknor - 2015-11 Patent Monopolies and the Costs of Mismarketing Drugs
by Ravi Katari, Dean Baker - 2015-10 The Gains from Trade in a New Model from the IMF: Still Very Small
by David Rosnick - 2015-09 Partners in Austerity: Jamaica, the United States and the International Monetary Fund
by Jake Johnston - 2015-08 From Recession to Collapse: The Bush Administration and the Over-Valued Dollar
by Dean Baker - 2015-07 The Budgetary Implications of Higher Federal Reserve Board Interest Rates
by Dean Baker - 2015-06 Young Black America Part One: High School Completion Rates are at their Highest Ever
by Cherrie Bucknor - 2015-05 Failing on Two Fronts: The U.S. Labor Market Since 2000
by John Schmitt - 2015-04 The Greek Economy: Which Way Forward?
by Mark Weisbrot & David Rosnick & Stephan Lefebvre - 2015-03 The Social Security Benefits of Sitting Senators in 2015
by Alan Barber & Dean Baker - 2015-02 Private Equity and the SEC after Dodd-Frank
by Eileen Appelbaum - 2015-01 Who Would Pay More if the Social Security Payroll Tax Cap Were Raised or Scrapped?
by Nicole Woo & Cherrie Bucknor & John Schmitt
2014
- 2014-18 The Consequences of Increased Population Growth for Climate Change
by David Rosnick - 2014-17 Barriers to Freedom of Contract in the Public Sector
by Milla Sanes - 2014-16 The Wealth of Households: An Analysis of the 2013 Survey of Consumer Finances
by David Rosnick & Dean Baker - 2014-15 The Big Tax Increase Nobody Noticed
by Dean Baker - 2014-14 The Brazilian Economy in Transition: Macroeconomic Policy, Labor and Inequality
by Mark Weisbrot & Jake Johnston & Stephan Lefebvre - 2014-13 The Affordable Care Act: A Family-Friendly Policy
by Helene Jorgensen & Dean Baker - 2014-12 Business As Usual: New Jersey Employers’ Experiences with Family Leave Insurance
by Sharon Lerner & Eileen Appelbaum - 2014-11 Women, Working Families, and Unions
by Janelle Jones & John Schmitt & Nicole Woo - 2014-10 Documenting the Need for a National Paid Family and Medical Leave Program: Evidence from the 2012 FMLA Survey
by Helene Jorgensen & Eileen Appelbaum - 2014-09 Latin American Growth in the 21st Century: The 'Commodities Boom' That Wasn't
by David Rosnick & Mark Weisbrot - 2014-08 A College Degree is No Guarantee
by Janelle Jones & John Schmitt - 2014-07 Scrapping the Social Security Payroll Tax Cap: Who Would Pay More?
by Nicole Woo & Janelle Jones & John Schmitt - 2014-06 Expanding Family and Medical Leave to Small Firms
by Helene Jorgensen & Eileen Appelbaum - 2014-05 Regulation of Public Sector Collective Bargaining in the States
by Milla Sanes & John Schmitt - 2014-04 Union Advantage for Black Workers
by Janelle Jones & John Schmitt - 2014-03 Did NAFTA Help Mexico? An Assessment After 20 Years
by Mark Weisbrot & Stephan Lefebvre & Joseph Sammut - 2014-02 Expanding Federal Family and Medical Leave Coverage: Who Benefits from Changes in Eligibility Requirements?
by Helene Jorgensen & Eileen Appelbaum - 2014-01 State Union Membership, 2013
by John Schmitt & Janelle Jones
2013
- 2013-18 Women Workers and Unions
by John Schmitt & Nicole Woo - 2013-17 Policy Alternatives for a Return to Full Employment in Spain
by David Rosnick & Mark Weisbrot - 2013-16 Honduras Since the Coup: Economic and Social Outcomes
by Jake Johnston & Stephan Lefebvre - 2013-15 Bringing Back Subprime? The Hazards of Restructuring the GSEs
by Dean Baker & Nicole Woo - 2013-14 Gains from Trade? The Net Effect of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement on U.S. Wages
by David Rosnick - 2013-13 The Affordable Care Act: A Hidden Jobs Killer?
by Helene Jorgensen & Dean Baker - 2013-12 Financial Engineering: The Simple Way to Reduce Government Debt Burdens
by Dean Baker & Sheva Diagne - 2013-11 Has Education Paid Off for Black Workers?
by John Schmitt & Janelle Jones - 2013-10 Does It Pay to Volunteer? The Relationship Between Volunteer Work and Paid Work
by Helene Jorgensen - 2013-09 Making Jobs Good
by John Schmitt & Janelle Jones - 2013-08 State Savings with an Efficient Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit
by Nicole Woo & Dean Baker - 2013-07 The Human Capital Dimensions of Sustainable Investment: What Investment Analysts Need to Know
by Thomas Kochan & Eileen Appelbaum & Carrie Leana & Jody Hoffer Gittell - 2013-06 Ecuador’s Economy Since 2007
by Mark Weisbrot & Jake Johnston & Stephan Lefebvre - 2013-05 Reducing Waste With an Efficient Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit
by Dean Baker - 2013-04 Why Does the Minimum Wage Have No Discernible Effect on Employment?
by John Schmitt - 2013-03 Macroeconomic Policy Advice and the Article IV Consultations: A European Union Case Study
by Mark Weisbrot & Helene Jorgensen - 2013-02 Raising the Social Security Payroll Tax Cap: How Many Workers Would Pay More?
by Nicole Woo & John Schmitt & Janelle Jones - 2013-01 State Union Membership, 2012
by John Schmitt & Janelle Jones & Milla Sanes
2012
- 2012-27 The Chained CPI: A Painful Cut in Social Security Benefits and a Stealth Tax Hike
by Alan Barber & Nicole Woo - 2012-26 Married … without Means: Poverty and Economic Hardship Among Married Americans
by Shawn Fremstad - 2012-24 Venezuela's Economic Recovery: Is It Sustainable?
by Jake Johnston & Mark Weisbrot - 2012-23 Bad Jobs on the Rise
by John Schmitt & Janelle Jones - 2012-22 Small-Dollar Lending: Is There A Responsible Path Forward?
by Jim Campen - 2012-21 Protecting Fundamental Labor Rights: Lessons from Canada for the United States
by Kris Warner - 2012-20 Where Have All the Good Jobs Gone?
by John Schmitt & Janelle Jones - 2012-19 Missing the Story: The OECD's Analysis of Inequality
by David Rosnick & Dean Baker - 2012-18 The Mexican Economy and the 2012 Elections
by Rebecca Ray & Mark Weisbrot - 2012-17 Attacking the Treasury View, Again
by Dean Baker - 2012-16 Who's (Still) Above the Social Security Payroll Tax Cap?
by Nicole Woo & Janelle Jones & John Schmitt - 2012-15 Update on the Jamaican Economy
by Juan Montecino & Jake Johnson - 2012-14 Ecuador’s Economy Since 2007
by Rebecca Ray & Sara Kozameh - 2012-13 First Time Underwater: The Impact of the First-time Homebuyer Tax Credit
by Dean Baker - 2012-12 The Impact on Inequality of Raising the Social Security Retirement Age
by Dean Baker & David Rosnick - 2012-11 Low-wage Workers Are Older and Better Educated than Ever
by John Schmitt & Janelle Jones - 2012-10 The Relationship Between Financial Transactions Costs and Economic Growth
by Dean Baker & Helene Jorgensen - 2012-09 Long-term Hardship in the Labor Market
by John Schmitt & Janelle Jones - 2012-08 It's So Hard to Get Good Help
by Dean Baker - 2012-07 More Pain, No Gain for Greece: Is the Euro Worth the Costs of Pro-Cyclical Fiscal Policy and Internal Devaluation?
by Mark Weisbrot & Juan Antonio Montecino - 2012-06 Health-insurance Coverage for Low-wage Workers, 1979-2010 and Beyond
by John Schmitt - 2012-05 A Primer on Private Equity at Work: Management, Employment, and Sustainability
by Eileen Appelbaum & Rosemary Batt - 2012-04 The Necessity of a Lower Dollar and the Route There
by Dean Baker - 2012-03 Low-wage Lessons
by John Schmitt - 2012-02 Pension Liabilities: Fear Tactics and Serious Policy
by David Rosnick & Dean Baker - 2012-01 Down and Out: Measuring Long-term Hardship in the Labor Market
by John Schmitt & Janelle Jones
2011
- 2011-25 Latvia's Internal Devaluation: A Success Story?
by Mark Weisbrot & Rebecca Ray - 2011-24 Politics Matter: Changes in Unionization Rates in Rich Countries, 1960-2010
by John Schmitt & Alexandra Mitukiewicz - 2011-23 Maintaining and Improving Social Security for Poorly Compensated Workers
by Shawn Fremstad - 2011-22 Decreasing Inequality Under Latin America’s “Social Democratic” and “Populist” Governments: Is the Difference Real?
by Juan A. Montecino - 2011-21 The Argentine Success Story and its Implications
by Mark Weisbrot & Rebecca Ray & Juan Montecino & Sara Kozameh - 2011-20 The Impact of Cutting Social Security Cost of Living Adjustments on the Living Standards of the Elderly
by Dean Baker & David Rosnick - 2011-19 Who's Above the Social Security Payroll Tax Cap?
by Nicole Woo & Janelle Jones & John Schmitt - 2011-18 Do Tax Cuts Boost the Economy?
by David Rosnick & Dean Baker - 2011-17 When Numbers Don't Add Up: The Statistical Discrepancy in GDP Accounts
by Dean Baker - 2011-16 Diversity and Change: Asian American and Pacific Islander Workers
by John Schmitt & Hye Jin Rho & Nicole Woo - 2011-15 Work Sharing: The Quick Route Back to Full Employment
by Dean Baker - 2011-14 7 Things You Need to Know About the National Debt, Deficits, and the Dollar
by Dean Baker & David Rosnick - 2011-13 Macroeconomic Policy, Growth and Income Distribution in the Brazilian Economy in the 2000s
by Franklin Serrano & Ricardo Summa - 2011-12 Labor Market Policy in the Great Recession: Some Lessons from Denmark and Germany
by John Schmitt - 2011-11 Jamaica: Macroeconomic Policy, Debt and the IMF
by Juan Montecino & Jake Johnson - 2011-10 Representative Ryan’s $30 Trillion Medicare Waste Tax
by David Rosnick & Dean Baker - 2011-09 The Scorecard on Development, 1960-2010: Closing the Gap?
by Mark Weisbrot & Rebecca Ray - 2011-08 The Ryan Medicare Plan: Winners and Losers
by Dean Baker & David Rosnick - 2011-07 The Wage and Employment Impact of Minimum-Wage Laws in Three Cities
by John Schmitt & David Rosnick - 2011-06 Deconstructing Structural Unemployment
by John Schmitt & Kris Warner - 2011-05 The Potential Savings to Social Security from Means Testing
by Dean Baker & Hye Jin Rho - 2011-04 The Origins and Severity of the Public Pension Crisis
by Dean Baker - 2011-03 A Voluntary Default Savings Plan: An Effective Supplement to Social Security
by Dean Baker - 2011-02 The Deficit-Reducing Potential of a Financial Speculation Tax
by Dean Baker - 2011-01 Unions and Upward Mobility for Asian American and Pacific Islander Workers
by John Schmitt & Hye Jin Rho & Nicole Woo
2010
- 2010-28 The High Budgetary Cost of Incarceration
by John Schmitt & Kris Warner - 2010-27 The Gains From Trade: South American Economic Integration and the Resolution of Conflict
by Mark Weisbrot & Jake Johnson - 2010-26 Action on Social Security: The Urgent Need for Delay
by Dean Baker - 2010-25 The Impact of Income Distribution on the Length of Retirement
by Dean Baker & David Rosnick - 2010-24 The IMF and Economic Recovery: Is Fund Policy Contributing to Downside Risks?
by Mark Weisbrot & Juan Antonio Montecino - 2010-23 The Myth of Expansionary Fiscal Austerity
by Dean Baker - 2010-22 Feel No Pain: Why a Deficit in Times of High Unemployment is Not a Burden
by Dean Baker - 2010-21 The Gains from Right to Rent
by Dean Baker & Hye Jin Rho - 2010-20 Update on the Venezuelan Economy
by Mark Weisbrot & Rebecca Ray - 2010-19 Hard Work? Patterns of Physically Demand Labor Among Older Workers
by Hye Jin Rho - 2010-18 Alternatives to Fiscal Austerity in Spain
by Mark Weisbrot & Juan Antonio Montecino - 2010-17 The Urgent Need for Job Creation
by John Schmitt & Tessa Conroy - 2010-16 The Impact of Social Security Cuts on Retiree Income
by Dean Baker & David Rosnick - 2010-15 The Adult Recession: Age-Adjusted Unemployment at Post-War Highs
by David Rosnick - 2010-14 The High Budgetary Cost of Incarceration
by John Schmitt & Kris Warner & Sarika Gupta - 2010-13 Social Security and the Age of Retirement
by David Rosnick - 2010-12 A Modern Framework for Measuring Poverty and Basic Economic Security
by Shawn Fremstad - 2010-11 A Concise History of Exchange Rate Regimes in Latin America
by Roberto Frankel & Martín Rapetti - 2010-10 Capital Controls and Monetary Policy in Developing Countries
by Juan Antonio Montecino & Jose Antonio Cordero - 2010-09 Profits on Citigroup Stock: Can They Be the Basis for Financing Stimulus?
by Dean Baker - 2010-08 Using Food Aid to Support, Not Harm, Haitian Agriculture
by Mark Weisbrot & Jake Johnston & Rebecca Ray - 2010-07 Unions and Upward Mobility for Immigrant Workers
by John Schmitt - 2010-06 Health-Insurance Coverage Rates for US Workers, 1979-2008
by Hye Jin Rho & John Schmitt - 2010-05 Reconciliation and Representation: The Share of the Population Represented by the Democratic Majority
by Sarika Gupta - 2010-04 The Budget Deficit Scare Story and the Great Recession
by Dean Baker - 2010-03 The Unions of the States
by John Schmitt - 2010-02 Latvia’s Recession: The Cost of Adjustment With An “Internal Devaluation”
by Mark Weisbrot & Rebecca Ray - 2010-01 Responses to Criticisms of Taxes on Financial Speculation
by Dean Baker
2009
- 2009-50 The Potential Revenue from Financial Transactions Taxes
by Dean Baker & Robert Pollin & Travis McArthur & Matt Sherman - 2009-49 Free Ride: The Senate Health Bill’s Approach to “Employer Responsibility” Means Some Large Employers Get to Take It Easy
by Shawn Fremstad - 2009-48 Taming the Deficit: Saving Our Children from Themselves
by Dean Baker & David Rosnick - 2009-47 Bolivia: The Economy During the Morales Administration
by Mark Weisbrot & Rebecca Ray & Jake Johnston - 2009-46 The $1 Trillion Wage Deficit
by Dean Baker & John Schmitt - 2009-45 Issues in Trade and Protectionism
by Dean Baker - 2009-44 Unions and Upward Mobility for Asian Pacific American Workers
by John Schmitt & Hye-Jin Rho & Nicole Woo - 2009-43 The Changing Face of Labor, 1983-2008
by John Schmitt & Kris Warner - 2009-42 Honduras: Recent Economic Performance
by Jose Antonio Cordero - 2009-41 CEPR Responds to the IMF’s Reply and Defense of Its Policies During the World Recession
by Mark Weisbrot - 2009-40 Inequality as Policy: The United States Since 1979
by John Schmitt - 2009-39 Job Sharing: Tax Credits to Prevent Layoffs and Stimulate Employment
by Dean Baker - 2009-38 Free Trade in Health Care: The Gains from Globalized Medicare and Medicaid
by Dean Baker & Hye-Jin Rho - 2009-37 IMF-Supported Macroeconomic Policies and the World Recession: A Look at Forty-One Borrowing Countries
by Mark Weisbrot & Rebecca Ray & Jake Johnston & Jose Antonio Cordero - 2009-36 The Value of the “Too Big to Fail” Big Bank Subsidy
by Dean Baker & Travis McArthur - 2009-35 Reimbursement Roulette: The Baucus Bill’s Too Playful Approach to “Play-or-Pay” in Health Care Reform
by Shawn Fremstad - 2009-34 More Budget Belt-Tightening Means More Job Losses for States
by Matt Sherman - 2009-33 Employer Responsibility in Health Care Reform: Potential Effects on Low- and Moderate-Income Workers
by Shawn Fremstad - 2009-32 Cut Loose: State and Local Layoffs of Public Employees in the Current Recession
by Matt Sherman & Nathan Lane - 2009-31 The IMF’s Stand-by Arrangements and the Economic Downturn in Eastern Europe: The Cases of Hungary, Latvia, and Ukraine
by Jose Antonio Cordero - 2009-30 Half in Ten: Why Taking Disability into Account is Essential to Reducing Income Poverty and Expanding Economic Inclusion
by Shawn Fremstad - 2009-29 CBO Projects More Severe Downturn
by Dean Baker - 2009-28 Hitting Bottom? An Updated Analysis of Rents and the Price of Housing in 100 Metropolitan Areas
by Danilo Pelletiere & Hye Jin Rho & Dean Baker - 2009-27 An International Comparison of Small Business Employment
by John Schmitt & Nathan Lane - 2009-26 The Gains from Right to Rent
by Dean Baker & Hye Jin Rho - 2009-25 The Right to Rent Plan
by Dean Baker - 2009-24 The Alphabet Soup Explained: An Analysis of the Special Lending Facilities at the Federal Reserve
by Matthew Sherman - 2009-23 Costa Rica During the Global Recession: Fiscal Stimulus with Tight Monetary Policy
by Jose Antonio Cordero - 2009-22 Update on the Ecuadorian Economy
by Mark Weisbrot & Luis Sandoval - 2009-21 Paid Sick Days Don’t Cause Unemployment
by John Schmitt & Hye Jin Rho & Alison Earle & Jody Heymann - 2009-20 U.S. Unemployment Now as High as Europe
by John Schmitt & Hye Jin Rho & Shawn Fremstad - 2009-19 Contagion Nation: A Comparison of Paid Sick Day Policies in 22 Countries
by Jody Heymann & Hye Jin Rho & John Schmitt & Alison Earle - 2009-18 Estimating the Cost of Contributions to the IMF
by Mark Weisbrot & David Rosnick - 2009-17 The State and Local Drag on the Stimulus
by Dean Baker & Rivka Deutsch