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This paper presents evidence that job suburbanization caused significant declines in black employment from 1970 to 2000 … across metropolitan areas, I find that job suburbanization is associated with substantial declines in black employment rates … relative to white employment rates. Evidence from nationally planned highway infrastructure corroborates a causal …
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This paper examines the impact of state merit-aid programs on the labor market attachment of high school-aged youths. The labor force participation rate of teenagers has fallen substantially in recent decades, coinciding with the introduction of merit-aid programs. These programs reduce the...
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It is well documented that individuals in couples tend to retire around the same time. But because women tend to marry older men, this means many married women retire at younger ages than their husbands. This fact is somewhat at odds with lifecycle theory that suggests women might otherwise...
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employment and retirement outcomes for older women. The spread of unilateral divorce, we find, was associated with cross … divorce significantly increases the probability of full-time employment later in life, and significantly decreases retirement … does not impact full-time employment after age 50 but is positively associated with investment in education post marriage …
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's criminal justice system, offering new insights into how incarceration affects subsequent crime and employment. We construct a … directed at improving employability and reducing recidivism, and ultimately, raises employment and earnings while discouraging … negative effect on employment. Contrary to the widely embraced 'nothing works' doctrine, these findings demonstrate that time …
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The goal of this paper is to ascertain whether older women's current and anticipated future labor force patterns have changed over time, and if so, to evaluate the factors associated with longer work lives and plans to continue work at older ages. Using data from both the Health and Retirement...
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county and industry in the US. We study the impact of this reform on county-sector employment growth over the subsequent …. Importantly, however, we document substantial crowding out of non-treated firms employment, particularly in counties with low …
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existing literature, we construct predicted employment growth indices that allow us to separately identify demand … health. These patterns, which are consistent with previous findings on the effects of individual parental employment and job …
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We apply the Synthetic Control Method to re-examine the labor market effects of the Mariel Boatlift, first studied by David Card (1990). This method improves on previous studies by choosing a control group of cities that best matches Miami's labor market trends pre-Boatlift and providing more...
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We study the short-term trajectories of employment, hours worked, and real wages of immigrants in Canada and the U … growth in employment and wages in the U.S. than in Canada. We further compare longitudinal and cross-sectional trajectories …
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