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A new lifecycle of women's employment emerged with cohorts born in the 1950s. For prior cohorts, lifecycle employment … new lifecycle of employment is initially high and flat, there is a dip in the middle and a phasing out that is more … and greater labor force recovery for those who take paid or unpaid leave. Increased employment of women in their older …
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cohorts. It would appear that employment at older ages could stagnate or even decrease. But several other factors will be …
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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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Women earn less than men, and that is especially true of mothers relative to fathers. Much of the widening occurs after family formation when mothers reduce their hours of work. But what happens when the kids grow up? To answer that question, we estimate three earning gaps: the "motherhood...
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We develop a preliminary version of an Integrated Longitudinal Business Database (ILBD) that combines administrative records and survey data for all employer and nonemployer business units in the United States. Unlike other large-scale business databases, the ILBD tracks business transitions...
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.5 percent below the 1990 peak and a mere one percent above the 1993 trough. Employment rates tell a similar story. Our …
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, we exploit the recently developed Longitudinal Business Database (LBD), which contains annual observations on employment …, the employment-weighted mean volatility of firm growth rates has declined by more than 40% since 1982. This result stands … volatility among privately held firms. This pattern holds in every major industry group. Employment shifts toward older …
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Employment rates in Puerto Rico range from 55 to 65 percent of U.S. rates during the past thirty years. This huge … employment shortfall holds for men and women, cuts across all education groups, and is deeper for persons without a college … educated workers. Motivated by these facts, we identify several factors that undermine employment growth and business …
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We rely on a decomposition of employment changes into job creation and job destruction components - and a novel set of … inferences: 1) The data favor a many- shock characterization of fluctuations in employment and job reallocation, 2) Theories of … employment fluctuations that attribute a predominant role to aggregate shocks must in order to fit the data involve …
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find that policy uncertainty raises stock price volatility and reduces investment and employment in policy … foreshadow declines in investment, output, and employment in the United States and, in a panel VAR setting, for 12 major …
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