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When materials offshoring is measured by estimating imported intermediate inputs, a common assumption used is that an … the 3-digit I-O industry level, there is a correlation of 0.68 between the offshoring shares made with and without the …
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Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back … the considerable gains in employment rates it had achieved during the 1990s, with major contractions in manufacturing … employment being a prime contributor to the slump. The U.S. employment "sag" of the 2000s is widely recognized but poorly …
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The standard of living in the industrialized nations has been steadily increasing over the last few decades. Yet some observers wonder whether we are really getting any happier. This paper addresses that question by examining well-being data on 100,000 randomly sampled Americans and Britons from...
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We revisit the well-known negative association between union coverage and individuals' job satisfaction in the United States, first identified over forty years ago. We find the association has flipped since the Great Recession such that union workers are now more satisfied than their non-union...
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predicts recession, as does two consecutive months of employment rate declines. The economic situation in 2021 is exceptional … employment rates to recover quickly from the huge downturn in 2020. However, downward movements in consumer expectations in the … last six months suggest the economy in the United States is entering recession now (Autumn 2021) even though employment and …
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employment opportunities for which they have comparative advantage. This framework yields a simple equation linking wage changes … offshoring) rather than those of rising market power, markups or deunionization, which themselves do not appear to play a major …
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Four million Native Americans who identify as single race live in the USA. Another three million identify as Native …
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Using US Census Household Pulse Survey data for the period April 2020 to June 2021 we track the evolution of the mental health of nearly 2.3 million Americans during the COVID pandemic. We find anxiety, depression and worry peaked in November 2020, coinciding with the Presidential election. The...
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not on differential trends and do not enjoy higher output, investment, or employment growth thereafter. Using manager …
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