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Lalé, Etienne - 2019

A search-theoretic model of the labor market with idiosyncratic fluctuations in hours worked, search both off- and on-the-job, and multiple jobholding is developed. Taking on a second job entails a commitment to hold onto the primary employer, enabling the worker to use the primary job as her...

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The heterogeneous labor market impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic

Matias, Guido; Forsythe, Eliza C. - 2020

We study the distributional consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic's impacts on employment. Using CPS data on stocks and flows, we show that the pandemic has exacerbated pre-existing inequalities. Although employment losses have been widespread, they have been substantially larger in lower-paying...

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Long social distancing

Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J. - 2022

More than ten percent of Americans with recent work experience say they will continue social distancing after the COVID-19 pandemic ends, and another 45 percent will do so in limited ways. We uncover this Long Social Distancing phenomenon in our monthly Survey of Working Arrangements and...

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The impact of nurse turnover on quality of care and mortality in nursing homes: Eevidence from the Great Recession

Akosa Antwi, Yaa; Bowblis, John R. - 2016

instrumental variable estimation that uses the unemployment rate as an instrument for nursing turnover. We find that ignoring …

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The Impact of Nurse Turnover on Quality of Care and Mortality in Nursing Homes : Evidence from the Great Recession

Akosa Antwi, Yaa - 2016

instrumental variable estimation that uses the unemployment rate as an instrument for nursing turnover. We find that ignoring …

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Aggregate demand, idle time, and unemployment

Michaillat, Pascal; Saez, Emmanuel - 2014

This paper develops a model of unemployment fluctuations. The model keeps the architecture of the Barro and Grossman … flexible to completely rigid. With some price rigidity, aggregate demand influences unemployment through a simple mechanism … thus increases labor demand, which in turn reduces unemployment. We use the comparative-statistics predictions of the model …

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Temporary help employment in recession and recovery

Houseman, Susan N.; Heinrich, Carolyn J. - 2015

The temporary help industry, although small, plays a significant role in the macro economy, reflecting employers' growing reliance on temporary help agencies to provide flexibility in meeting staffing needs. Drawing on detailed temporary-help order data between 2007 and 2011 from a large,...

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The ups and downs in women's employment: Shifting composition or behavior from 1970 to 2010?

Smith, Kristin E. - 2014

This paper tracks factors contributing to the ups and downs in women's employment from 1970 to 2010 using regression decompositions focusing on whether changes are due to shifts in the means (composition of women) or due to shifts in coefficients (inclinations of women to work for pay)....

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The impact of affirmative action on the employment of minorities and women over three decades: 1973-2003

Kurtulus, Fidan Ana - 2015

What role has affirmative action played in the growth of minority and female employment in U.S. firms? This paper analyzes this issue by comparing the employment of minorities and women at firms holding federal contracts and therefore mandated to implement affirmative action, and at...

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Understanding the decline of U.S. manufacturing employment

Houseman, Susan N. - 2018

U.S. manufacturing experienced a precipitous and historically unprecedented decline in employment in the 2000s. Many economists and other analysts - pointing to decades of statistics showing that manufacturing real (inflation-adjusted) output growth has largely kept pace with private sector real...

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