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IACHR Urges U.S. to Stop Deporting Sick People to Haiti
Following the tragic death of Wildrick Guerrier on January 22 following his deportation from the U.S. to Haiti, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) of the Organization of American States is urging the U.S. government to stop deporting pe

CEPR / February 04, 2011

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Labor Market Policy Research Reports, Jan. 29, 2011 – Feb. 4, 2011

This is the third installment of a new weekly feature at the CEPR blog. Every Friday, we'll post a list of labor-market-related policy research reports from progressive research centers around the country. This week, reports from Center for Economic and Policy Research, Economic Policy Institute, and Political Economy Research Institute.

CEPR and Sairah Hussain / February 04, 2011

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Economic Growth

Workers

Can You Find the Structural Unemployment?
The Washington Post told readers that the economy’s problem is not a lack of jobs, but rather that workers don’t have the right skills for the jobs that are available. This is known as structural unemployment, a situation where there is a mismatch between the available jobs and the skills of the workers who need jobs.

There are some simple implications of the existence of a problem of widespread structural unemployment. We are asking about a widespread problem because we are trying to find an explanation for 15 million people being unemployed. They are always narrow niches of the labor market where employers may find it difficult to find workers with the right skills. However, you cannot re-employ 15 million people in these narrow niches.

Dean Baker / February 02, 2011