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Declining Job Quality in the United States


Declining Job Quality in the United States: Explanations and Evidence

“We find evidence that the decline in union density—the fraction of union members in the workforce—is strongly associated with the rise of top ...

Job Quality Index Declines as Low-Quality Jobs Dominate Growth

As shown in Figure 1, the JQI is down 12.8% from 1990 illustrating the disproportionate growth in low-wage, low-hour jobs. ### ...

Declining Job Quality in the United States: Explanations and Evidence

PDF | On Sep 1, 2019, David R. Howell and others published Declining Job Quality in the United States: Explanations and Evidence | Find, read and cite all ...

Latest Employment Report Shows Minor Decline in U.S. Jobs Quality

Washington. The monthly U.S. Jobs Quality Index (JQI) issued by the Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) and its partners dropped ...

Declining Job Quality in the United States: Explanations and Evidence

The share of jobs that pay a wage high enough for a single full-time worker living alone has declined. Instead, there has been an explosion of ...

US labour market shows strain as job satisfaction declines

Regarding wages, satisfaction with current compensation dropped to 56.7 percent, down more than 3 percentage points from the same period in 2023 ...

Understanding America's Labor Shortage

At the height of the pandemic, more than 120,000 businesses temporarily closed, and more than 30 million U.S. workers were unemployed. Since ...

What are your thoughts on the declining quality of jobs in the United ...

Since 1990, the jobs available have significantly declined in quality, as measured by the income earned by workers. Less hours worked with less ...

Workers Who Jumped Ship During COVID Are Now Regretting It

“After more than a decade trending upwards, overall US worker job satisfaction may have finally plateaued,” said Allan Schweyer, Principal ...

The Long-term Decline of the U.S. Job Ladder - Daniele Caratelli

high-quality data are only available for 1996–2013. 2We borrow this terminology from the literature, but caution that it should be ...

Understanding America's Labor Shortage: The Most Impacted ...

Understanding America's Labor Shortage: The Most Impacted Industries ... American businesses are creating hundreds of thousands of jobs each month ...

The importance of understanding how job quality affects U.S. ...

And because most research finds that overall job quality in the United States has declined over the past four decades, lack of access to good ...

The Decline of Job Quality: A Deep Dive into the Alarming Trends 🛠

The decline in job quality is not limited to the U.S. In France, for example, the government recently raised the retirement age, citing budget ...

Job unhappiness is at a staggering all-time high, according to Gallup

In the U.S. specifically, 50% of workers reported feeling stressed at their jobs on a daily basis, 41% as being worried, 22% as sad, and 18% ...

Chapter 4 The Erosion of Job Quality: An Historic Perspective

While experts are not in agreement on how to measure labor shortages, most agree that the number of U.S. workers in the labor market will decline significantly.

Changes in precarious employment in the United States

The number of workers in high-quality, full-time employment, with adequate wages and benefits, has decreased over the last 40 years, while the number with low- ...

US Job Openings Decline to Lowest Level Since Early 2021

Available positions decreased to 7.44 million from a downwardly revised 7.86 million reading in August, the Bureau of Labor Statistics Job ...

How has job quality changed for US workers?

... decline in the US and is now at only 10 percent (EIG slide 44). In this respect, the US resembles the overall OECD (see Figure 2), in which union density ...

Job market polarization and American poverty

The article posits that the puzzles of stagnating poverty rates amidst high growth and declining unemployment in the United States can be ...

Declining US job quality for people of color - The Hill

The troubling results of our organization's new economic study show why. In recent years, overall job quality for Americans has deteriorated ...