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We study the evolution of individual labor earnings over the life cycle, using a large panel data set of earnings histories drawn from U.S. administrative records. Using fully nonparametric methods, our analysis reaches two broad conclusions. First, earnings shocks display substantial deviations...
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The acceleration of productivity since 1995 has prompted a debate over whether the economy's underlying growth rate will remain high. In this paper, we propose a methodology for estimating trend growth that draws on growth theory to identify variables other than productivity - namely consumption...
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We create a novel measure of job search effort starting in 1994 by exploiting the overlap between the Current … Population Survey and the American Time Use Survey. We examine the cyclical behavior of aggregate job search effort using time …
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This note puts the current shift in the Beveridge curve into context by examining the behavior of the curve since 1950. Outward shifts in the Beveridge curve have been common occurrences during U.S. recoveries. By itself, the presence of a shift has not been a good predictor of whether the...
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Young Americans’ residence choices have changed markedly over the past fifteen years, with recent cohorts entering the housing market at lower rates, and lingering much longer in parents’ households. This paper begins with descriptive evidence on the residence choices of 1 percent of young...
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institutional changes can only partially account for the longer duration of unemployment. We construct a job search model and …"This paper examines the causes of the observed increase in the average duration of unemployment over the past thirty … calibrate it to U.S. data. The results indicate that more than 70 percent of the increase in the duration of unemployment over …
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