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Claire Kovach; Muhammad Maisum Murtaza; Stephen Herzenberg – Keystone Research Center, 2024
As we approach this Labor Day, the Pennsylvania economy is growing steadily. Working families are sharing in prosperity in a more sustained way than at any point since 1980--although many families still struggle to make ends meet and, in our polarized nation, a big partisan divide exists in perceptions of whether the economy is better than four…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Economic Development, Trend Analysis, Labor Market
Herzenberg, Stephen; Kovach, Claire; Murtaza, Maisum – Keystone Research Center, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic brought unprecedented economic and policy challenges to the United States and other countries. Navigating out of the pandemic slowdown is another novel experience, which makes it more difficult to answer the question addressed each year in the "State of Working Pennsylvania": How is the Pennsylvania economy…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Wages, Unemployment, Employment Patterns
Price, Mark; Herzenberg, Stephen – Keystone Research Center, 2018
"The State of Working Pennsylvania 2018," Keystone Research Center's 23rd annual review of the Pennsylvania economy and labor market finds that, nearly a decade into the current national economic expansion, many Pennsylvania workers are still waiting for a raise. The report points to three factors that help explain this. First, despite…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Labor Market, Promotion (Occupational), Wages
Price, Mark; Herzenberg, Stephen – Keystone Research Center, 2015
Slow job growth and a labor market still short of full employment have resulted in stagnant wages and little growth in income in Pennsylvania. In order for the majority of Pennsylvania families to see real income growth in the years ahead the state will need a combination of faster job growth and economic policies that actively seek to raise wages…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Labor Market, Promotion (Occupational), Wages
Price, Mark; Herzenberg, Stephen – Keystone Research Center, 2013
A landmark new study reported that upward mobility in the Keystone State since the late 1990s exceeded that in most parts of the United States. This report, focused on more recent trends, contains some bad economic news. It shows that Pennsylvania's economy has performed poorly from the perspective of typical working families since the end of…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Labor Market, Promotion (Occupational), Wages
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Torres, A. Chris; Oluwole, Joseph – Journal of School Choice, 2015
Charter schools see as many as one in four teachers leave annually, and recent evidence attributes much of this turnover to provisions affected by collective bargaining processes and state laws such as salary, benefits, job security, and working hours. There have been many recent efforts to improve teacher voice in charter schools (Kahlenberg…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Job Satisfaction, Collective Bargaining, State Policy
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Babcock, Linda; Engberg, John – Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 1999
Analysis of data on collective bargaining outcomes in Pennsylvania schools (1983-89) showed that the higher the median level of teacher tenure in a district, the greater the pay gap between high- and low-tenured teachers. (SK)
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Elementary Secondary Education, Salary Wage Differentials, Teachers