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Should place-based jobs policies be used to help distressed communities?

Bartik, Timothy J. - 2019

Should policymakers seek to increase jobs in particular local labor markets? Yes, but only if these policies are well targeted and designed. Encouraging job growth in distressed places can cause persistent gains in employment-to-population ratios. But our current place-based jobs policies, under...

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What should Michigan be doing to promote long-run economic development?

Bartik, Timothy J. - 2009

I thank Claire Black and Wei-Jang Huang for assistance in preparing this paper. I appreciate the comments of George Erickcek on a preliminary version of this paper. This paper was previously presented on November 20, 2009 at the 57th Annual Economic Outlook Conference of the Research Seminar in...

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Estimating Hispanic-white wage gaps among women : the importance of controlling for cost of living

McHenry, Peter; McInerney, Melissa - 2015

Despite concern regarding labor market discrimination against Hispanics, previously published estimates show that Hispanic women earn higher hourly wages than white women with similar observable characteristics. This estimated wage premium is likely biased upwards because of the omission of an...

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The long-term labor market effects of parental unemployment

Schmidpeter, Bernhard - 2020

I investigate the impact of parental unemployment on children’s educational attainment and long-run labor market … outcomes in Austria. I find that parental unemployment shortly before an important educational decision by parents for their … results emphasize the intergenerational and long-lasting consequences of parental unemployment. …

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Sources of displaced workers' long-term earnings losses

Lachowska, Marta; Mas, Alexandre; Woodbury, Stephen A. - 2017

panel data from Washington State assembled from 2002-2014 administrative wage and unemployment insurance (UI) records. Three …

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Income in the off-season: household adaptation to yearly work interruptions

Coglianese, John; Price, Brendan M. - 2020

firms, 3) partly offset by unemployment benefits, and 4) amplified by concurrent drops in partners’ earnings. On net …

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What do we know about contracting out in the United States? : Evidence from household and establishment surveys

Dey, Matthew S.; Houseman, Susan N.; Polivka, Anne E. - 2009

A variety of evidence points to significant growth in domestic contracting out over the last two decades, yet the phenomenon is not well documented. In this paper, we pull together data from various sources to shed light on the extent of and trends in domestic outsourcing, the occupations in...

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General equilibrium of insurance expansions: evidence from long-term care labor markets

Hackmann, Martin B.; Heining, Jörg; Klimke, Roman; … - 2021

biographies of potential inpatient LTC hires, finding that the reform moved workers into LTC jobs from unemployment and out of the …

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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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Taxing the gender gap : labor market effects of a payroll tax cut for women in Italy

Rubolino, Enrico - 2023

This paper studies the labor market effects of a large payroll tax cut for female hires in Italy. Starting in January 2013, the payroll tax rate paid by the employer for female hires was reduced by 50 percent for a period of 12 months for temporary jobs and 18 months for permanent jobs....

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