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Intuit QuickBooks Small Business Index : A New Employment Series for the US, Canada, and the UK
Akcigit, Ufuk; Chhina, Raman; Cilasun, Seyit Mümin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Small and young businesses are essential for job creation, innovation, and economic growth. Even most of the superstar firms start their business life small and then grow over time. Small firms have less internal resources, which makes them more fragile and sensitive to macroeconomic conditions....
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Local Administration and Racial Inequality in Federal Program Access : Insights from New Deal Work Relief
Fishback, Price Van Meter; Schaller, Jessamyn; Taylor, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We examine racial discrimination in the New Deal by examining access to work relief. The Federal Government prohibited racial discrimination in work relief programs. However, eligibility was determined by local and state administrators. We estimate Black-white gaps in work relief access...
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Working from Home Around the World
Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The pandemic triggered a large, lasting shift to work from home (WFH). To study this shift, we survey full-time workers who finished primary school in 27 countries as of mid 2021 and early 2022. Our cross-country comparisons control for age, gender, education, and industry and treat the U.S....
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Automation : Theory, Evidence, and Outlook
Restrepo, Pascual - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
effect, but also reduces employment opportunities for workers displaced from automated tasks, creating a negative …
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The Wage Curve After the Great Recession
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex; Spurling, Jackson - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
formation in the USA and hasn't been since the Great Recession. Instead, we show rates of under-employment (the percentage of … workers with part-time hours who would prefer more hours) and the rate of non-employment which includes both the unemployed …
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The Rise and Fall of the Teaching Profession : Prestige, Interest, Preparation, and Satisfaction over the Last Half Century
Kraft, Matthew A.; Arnold Lyon, Melissa - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We examine the state of the U.S. K-12 teaching profession over the last half century by compiling nationally representative time-series data on four interrelated constructs: occupational prestige, interest among students, the number of individuals preparing for entry, and on-the-job...
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The Lasting Impacts of Middle School Principals
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Morgan, Andrew J.; Rivkin, Steven G.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
, employment, and criminal justice outcomes. The results highlight the importance of school leadership, though striking differences …
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From Scarcity to Abundance : Government and Private Initiatives to Manage the Allocation of N95 Masks in the U.S. During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Joskow, Paul L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper examines the structure, behavior and performance of the N95 respirator market in the U.S. before and during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020-early 2022). It focuses on the behavior and performance of government and private sector organizations in the allocation of scarce supplies of N95...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013172175
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An Analysis of Public and Private Sector Wages Allowing for Endogenous Choices of Both Government and Union Status
Gyourko, Joseph - 1986
Studies of public/private sector wage differentials typically assume that the govenment and union status of a worker are exogenous variables. Recently, some studies have relaxed this assumption slightly by allowing the union status to be endogenous. In this paper, we consider a more general...
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Transitions From Career Employment Among Public- and Private-Sector Workers
Quinn, Joseph F. - 2018
Our paper examines how private- and public-sector workers transition from career employment to complete labor force … withdrawal, with a focus on the role of bridge employment, phased retirement, and re-entry. We identify the prevalence and … employment among public-sector workers resembles that of private-sector workers, although with a higher prevalence of part …
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