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The trade deficit trap -- How it got so big, why it persists, and what to do about it
by Robert A. Blecker
July 2009 | EPI Working Paper #284
Tools for Assessing the Labor Market Impacts of Infrastructure Investment
by Josh Bivens, John Irons, & Ethan Pollack
April 7, 2009 | EPI Working Paper #283
A Policy Agenda for Offshoring
by Ron Hira
March 11, 2009 | EPI Working Paper #282
Who is Adversely Affected by Limiting the Tax Exclusion of Employment-Based Premiums?
by Elise Gould & Alexandra Minicozzi
March 4, 2009 | EPI Working Paper #281
The gains from trade: How big and who gets them?
by L. Josh Bivens
December 17, 2007 | EPI Working Paper #280
Globalization, American Wages, and Inequality: Past, Present, and Future
by Josh Bivens
September 6, 2007 | EPI Working Paper #279
Employment impacts of Clean Edge Act proposals
by Robert E. Scott
September 8, 2006 | EPI Working Paper #278
The need for adequate resources for at-risk children
by Whitney C. Allgood
August 2006 | EPI Working Paper #277
Wrestling with Wal-Mart: Tradeoffs between profits, prices, and wages
by Jared Bernstein, L. Josh Bivens and Arindrajit Dube
June 2006 | EPI Working Paper #276
New inequality frontier: Broadband Internet access
by Caroline J. Tolbert and Karen Mossberger
January 2006 | Working Paper #275
A new future for telecommunications policy: Learning from past mistakes
by Elliot Maxwell
November 2005 | Working Paper #274
Principles for governmental action in a broadband world
by Jonathan Sallet
November 2005 | Working Paper #273
Children's Lead Poisoning and Asthma
by Elise Gould
November 16, 2005 (updated) | EPI Working Paper
Basic Economics: Raising the FCC's 30% limit on cable TV market shares is bad policy
by William G. Shepherd
July 2005 | Working Paper #272
Labor Standards, Human Capital, and Economic Development
by Ray Marshall
February 2005 | Working Paper #271
U.S.-China trade, 1989-2003: Impact on jobs and industries, nationally and state-by-state
by Robert E. Scott
January 2005 | Working Paper #270
Unionization and Poverty: The Case of New York City Retail Workers
by Moshe Adler
December 2003 | Working Paper #127
Updated Employment Multipliers for the U.S. Economy
by L. Josh Bivens
August 2003 | Working Paper #268
Prospects for prisoner reentry
by Anne M. Piehl, Stefan F. LoBuglio, and Richard B. Freeman
August 2003 | Working Paper No. 125
Smoothing the Waves of the Perfect Storm: Could Changes in Pension Funding Rules Ease the Burden for Pension Funds?
by Christian E. Weller and Dean Baker
May 2003 | Technical Paper #266
PURE: A Proposal for Better Retirement Income Security
by Christian E. Weller
February 2003 | Technical Paper #265
Biting the Hand that Fed It: Did the Stock Market Boom of the Late 1990s Impede Investment in Manufacturing?
by Christian E. Weller and Brooke Helppie
October 2002 | Technical Paper #264
Political freedom, external liberalization and financial stability
by Christian E. Weller and Laura Singleton
2002 | Technical Paper #262
First Do No Harm: Why Vouchers are Bad Medicine for Medicare
by Ellen O'Brien
2002 | Technical Paper #261
The Long and Short of It: Global Liberalization, Poverty and Inequality
by Christian E. Weller and Adam Hersh
June 2002 | Technical Paper #260
Policy on the Margin: Evaluating the Impact of Margin Debt Requirements on Stock Valuations
by Christian E. Weller
August 2002 | Technical Paper #259
What Drives the Fed to Act?
by Christian E. Weller
August 2002 | Technical Paper #258
The Recent Stock Market Fluctuations and Retirement Income Adequacy
by Christian E. Weller
August 2002 | Technical Paper #257
Full employment: Don't give it up without a fight
by Jared Bernstein and Dean Baker
January 2002 Working Paper #122
The Impact of Proposed Greenhouse Gas Control Policies on Coal Mining and Railroad Employment
by Thomas Michael Power
August 2001 | Technical Paper #256
Can Workers Afford a Higher Retirement Age?
by Christian Weller
November 2001 | Technical Paper #255
Competition and Regulatory Reform: California As A Case Study in Deregulatory Failure and Reform
by George Sterzinger
December 2001 | Technical Paper #254
The Evolution of the Welfare State in Developed Capitalist Countries During the Decade of the 1990s
by Vincent Navarro, John Schmitt and Jaires Astudillo
November 2001 | Technical Paper #253
Public Disclosure of the Sweatshop Practices of American Multinational Garment/Shoe Makers/Retailers: Impacts of thier Stock Prices
by Michael T. Rock
November 2001 | Technical Paper #252
A New Approach to Measuring Poverty: Testing the Reliability of Hardship Measures
by Heather Boushey and Bethney Gundersen
October 2001 | Technical Paper #251
Macro Economic Lessons from the 1990s for Stable and Sustainable Growth
by Christian Weller
May 2001 | Technical Paper #250
Score: A Proposal to Revive Public Investment: How to Pay for Improved School Infrastructure
by Christian E. Weller and Jeffrey B. Wenger
March 2001 | Technical Paper #249
Financial Crisis After Financial Liberalization: Exceptional Circumstances of Structural Weakness?
by Christian Weller
November 2000 | Technical Paper #248
The class size policy debate: Understanding the magnitude and effect of class size on student achievement; Evidence, politics, and the class size debate
Alan B. Krueger; Eric A. Hanushek
October 2000 | Working Paper #121
(This title was released as an EPI book in 2002)
Programs Without Alternative: Public Pensions in the OECD
by Christian Weller
October 2000 | Technical Paper #247
A Firm's Decision to Train: An Empirical Study
by Yvon Pho
September 2000 | Technical Paper #246
The Balance-of-Payments-Constrained Growth Model and the Limits to Export-Led Growth
by Robert A. Blecker
September 2000 | Technical Paper #245
Worker Motivation, Commitment, and Work Effort: A Psychological Perspective
by Lauren D. Alppelbaum
June 2000 | Technical Paper #244
Impact of Detroit's Living Wage Law on Non-Profit Organizations
by David Reynolds with Jean Vortkamp
June 2000 | Technical Paper #243
Time on the Job: Flexibility and Volatility in Work Hours
by Lonnie Golden
March 2000 | Technical Paper #242
Multinational Banks In Developing and Transition Economies
by Christian Weller
March 2000 | Technical Paper #241
The Disease That Became a Model: The Economics Behind the Employment Trends in the Netherlands
by Ronald Schettkat and Jan Reijnders
March 2000 | Working Paper #120
The Workforce Projection Project Final Report
by Chris Gingrich
December 1999 | Technical Paper # 240
Consumption Taxes in a Strategy for Equality
by Max B.Sawicky
March 1999 | Technical Paper # 239
Global Warming: The High cost of the WEFA Model
by James P. Barret
March 1999 | Technical Paper # 238
A Just Transition?: Lessons from Defense Worker Adjustment in the 1990s
by Laura Powers and Ann Markusen
April 1999 | Technical Paper #237
The Effects of the Living Wage in Baltimore
by Christopher Niedt, Greg Ruiters, Dana Wise, and Erica Schoenberger
February 1999 | Working Paper #119
"Doing Well by Doing Good": Corporate Organizational Practices and Firms' Financial Performance
by Ted Baker
January 1999 | Technical Paper #232
Universal Coverage: How Do We Pay For It?
by Edith Rasell
October 1998 | Technical Paper #234
The Impact of Mis-Measured Inflation on Wage Growth
by Dean Baker
December 1998 | Technical Paper #233
The Feasibility of Pay by the Mile Automobile Insurance
by Dean Baker and Jim Baker
November 1998 | Technical Paper #231
The Effects of Offsets, Outsourcing, and Foreign Competition an Output and Employment in the U.S. Aerospace Industry
by Robert E. Scott
November 1998 | Technical Paper #228
Family Incomes in the 1980s: New Pressure on Wives, Husbands, and Young Adults
by Stephen Rose and David Fasenfest
November 1988 | Working Paper #103
Trading Away Jobs: The Effects of the US Merchandise Trade Deficit on Employment
by Faye Duchin and Glenn-Marie Lange
October 1988 | Working Paper #102
Better Jobs or Working Longer For Less: An Evaluation of the Research of Marvin Kosters and Murray Ross on the Quality of Jobs
by Lawrence Mishel
July 1988 | Working Paper #101
International Capital Mobility, Macroeconomic Imbalances, And The Risk of Global Contraction
by Robert Blecker
June 1998 | Technical Paper #227
Wefare Reform and the Low-Wage Labor Market: Employment, Wages, and Wage Politics
by Jared Bernstein
November 1997 | Techical Paper #226
The Impact of Mis-Measured Inflation on Wage Growth
by Dean Baker
December 1997 | Technical Paper #225
The Effects of Workplace Practices on Job Satisfaction In the United States Steel Industry
by Peter Berg
September 1997 (Revised November 1997) | Technical Paper #224
Balancing Work and Family: Evidence fom Surveys of Manufacturing Workers
by Eileen Appelbaum and Peter Berg
November 1997 | Technical Paper #223
Are Prices Unimportant?: The Changing Structure of the Industrialized Economies
by Eileen Appelbaum and Ronald Schettkat
October 1997 | Technical Paper #222
The Impact of New Forms of Work Organization on Workers
by Eileen Appelbaum
September 1997 | Technical Paper #221
Workplace Reorganization In The Insurance Industry
by Francois Carre
August 1997 | Technical Paper #220
Achieving Long-Term Financial Stability in the Medicare Program: A Universal Health Care System Is the Only Answer
by Edith Rasell
June 1997 | Technical Paper #219
Low-Wage Labor Market Indicators by City and State: The Constraints Facing Welfare Reform
by Jared Bernstein
March 1997 | Working Paper #118
Employment Impacts of the National Information Infrastructure
by John Alic
March 1997 | Technical Paper #218
Hard Lessons in California: Minority Pay Windens Despite More Schooling, Higher Scores
by Martin Carnoy and Richard Rothstein
October 1996 | Working Paper #117
The High Cost of Protectionism: The Case of Intellectual Property Claims
by Dean Baker
September 1996 | Technical Paper #230
Developing Reasonable Standards for Judging Whether Minimum Wage Levels in Developing nations Are Acceptable
by Richard Rothstein
September 1996 | Technical Paper # 215
State Responses to Bloack Grants: Will the Social Safety Net Survive?
by Howard Chernick and Andrew Reschovsky
July 31, 1996 | Technical Paper #214
Did International Trade Lower Less-Skilled Wages During the 1980s?: Standard Trade Theory and Evidence by John Schmitt and Lawrence Mishel
July 1996 | Technical Paper # 213
Fiscal Disparities and Education Finance
by John Yinger
July 1996 | Technical Paper #212
Trends in Corporate Profitability: Getting More for Less?
by Dean Baker
February 1996 | Technical Paper #211
Volatile Voters: Declining Living Standards and Non-College-Educated Whites
by Ruy A. Teixeira and Joel Rogers
August 1996 | Working Paper #116
Impacts of Hospital Restructuring On Nursing
by Ann Greiner
June 1996 | Technical Paper # 210
The Distributional Effects of Raising the Social Security Retirement Age and Partially Indexing Benefits
by Edward Wolff and Howard Chernick
May 1996 | Working Paper #115
Getting Prices Right: A Methodologically Consistent Consumer Price Index, 1953-94
by Dean Baker
April 12, 1996 | Technical Paper #209
Financial Market Constraints and Business Strategy in the United States
by Eileen Appelbaum and Peter Berg
June 1995 | Technical Paper #236
The Case for a Securities Transactions Tax: Taxing the Big Casino
by Dean Baker, Robert Pollin and Mark Schauberg
April 1995 | Technical Paper # 229
The Performance Effects of Modular Production in the Apparel Industry
by Peter Berg, Eileen Appelbaum, Thomas Bailey and Arne L. Kalleberg
August 1995 | Technical Paper #216
Economic Development and Metropolitan Sprawl: Changing Who Pays and Who Benefits
by Joseph Persky and Wim Wiewel
November 1995 | Technical Paper # 208
How Strong Are State Revenue Systems?
by Daphne A. Keyon
November 1995 | Technical Paper #207
New Opportunities/Nagging Questions: The Politics of State Policymaking in the Nineties
by Timothy J. Conlan and James D. Riggle
November 1995 | Technical Paper #206
The State Fiscal Predicament Under the New Federalism
by Steven D. Gold October 1995 | Technical Paper #205
Work Reorganization and Flexibility in Job Design
by Eileen Appelbaum and Peter Berg
August 1995 | Technical Paper #204
Promoting Workplace Participation: Lessons from Germany and France
by Edward Lorenz
June 1995 | Technical Paper #203
The Employment Impact of Environmental Investment: A Conceptual Framework
by Eban Goodstein
February 1995 | Technical Paper #202
The Employment Problem in the Industrialized Economies
by Eileen Appelbaum and Ronald Schettkat
September 1994 | Technical Paper #235
Is the Technology Black Box Empty?: An Empirical Examination of the Impact of Technology on Wage Inequality and the Employment Structure
by Lawrence Mishel and Jared Bernstein
April 1994 | Technical Paper #217
Training and High Performance Work Systems in the New Germany
by Peter Berg
December 1994 | Technical Paper # 201
Employee Participation Rights, Training, and Efficiency: Hypotheses and Preliminary Evidence from Germany
by Stephen C. Smith
November 1994 | Technical Paper #200
Role of Labor Market Institutions Employee Training: Comparing the United States and Germany
by Kirsten Wever, Peter Berg, and Thomas Kochan
December 1994 | Working Paper #114
The Impact of Employer Opposition on Union Certification Win Rates: A Private/Public Sector Comparison
by Kate Bronfenbrenner and Tom Juravich
October 1994 | Working Paper #113
The Impact of Safety and Health Committee Mandates on OSHA Enforcement: Lessons from Oregon
by David Weil
November 1994 | Working Paper #112
Paying For Health Care: Affordability and Equity in Proposals For Health Care Reform
by Edith Rasell and Kainan Tang
December 1994 | Working Paper #111
The Politics of the High-Wage Path: The Challenge Facing Democrats
by Ruy A. Teixeira
October 1994 | Working Paper #110
Barriers to U.S. Trade
by Faye Duchin, Glenn-Marie Lange, and Karim Nauphal
January 1994 | Working Paper #109
Good Jobs at Good Wages: The Characteristics of Jobs Created By Lifting Line-of-Business Restrictions in Telecommunications for Baby Bells
by Jared Bernstein and Lawrence Mishel
November 1993 | Working Paper #108
Employment Multipliers in the U.S. Economy
by Dean Baker and Thea M. Lee
March 1993 | Working Paper #107
Workplace Trading Policy: Case Studies of State and Local Experiments
by Rosemary Batt and Paul Osterman
January 1993 | Working Paper #106
Trade Protection and Industrial Revitalization: American Steel in the 1980s
by Robert A. Blecker, Thea M. Lee and Robert E. Scott
February 1993 | Working Paper #104
Reconsidering the Benefits and Costs of Trade Protection: The Case of Textiles and Apparel
by Robert E. Scott and Thea M. Lee
April 1991 | Working Paper #105
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