rates of unemployment. We examine the dynamic relationships between relief spending and local private labor markets using a …

unemployment, these lost work opportunities were costly to existing residents …

This paper studies how the thick market effect influences local unemployment rate fluctuations. The paper presents a … fluctuations in the local unemployment rates. Since larger cities attain the critical market size more frequently, they have … shorter unemployment cycles, lower peak unemployment rates, and lower mean unemployment rates. Our empirical tests are …

We use a resume audit study to better understand the role of employment and unemployment histories in affecting … disparate findings in prior studies. While we cannot reconcile earlier findings on the effect of unemployment duration, the … age range, we find that applicants with 52 weeks of unemployment have a lower callback rate than do applicants with …

We document and discuss the implications of a sharp increase in the regional dispersion of skill premia in China in … of China's integration into the global economy plays a significant and regionally concentrated role in the second period …

private sector in urban China. We show that a reform that untied access to housing in urban areas from working for the state …

China and India have been particularly strong. Then workers in occupations that are exposed to inshoring and offshore …We examine the impact on U.S. labor markets of offshore outsourcing in services to China and India. We also consider … China and India. Using March-to-March matched CPS data for 1996-2006 we examine the impacts on (1) occupation and industry …

Unemployment rates in countries across the world are typically positively correlated with GDP. China is an unusual … statistics. This paper calculates, for the first time, China's unemployment rate from 1988 to 2009 using a more reliable …, nationally representative household survey in China. The unemployment rates we calculate differ dramatically from those supplied …

In the past two decades, China's manufacturing exports have grown spectacularly, U.S. imports from China have surged …, but U.S. exports to China have increased only modestly. Using representative, longitudinal data on individual earnings by …