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Where Are the Workers? : From Great Resignation to Quiet Quitting
Lee, Dain; Park, Jinhyeok; Shin, Yongseok - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
's degree than those with less education, for prime-age workers than older workers, and also for those who already worked long …
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Long Social Distancing
Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
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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Adjusting Labor Along The Intensive Margins
Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Biddle, Jeff - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We expand the analysis of cyclical changes in labor demand by decomposing changes along the intensive margin into those in days/week and in hours/day. Using large cross sections of U.S. data, 1985-2018, we observe around 1/4 of the adjustment in weekly hours occurring through changing days/week....
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Where Have All the Workers Gone? Recalls, Retirements, and Reallocation in the COVID Recovery
Forsythe, Eliza; Kahn, Lisa B.; Lange, Fabian; Wiczer, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
At the onset of the COVID pandemic, the U.S. economy suddenly and swiftly lost 20 million jobs. Over the next two years, the economy has been on the recovery path. We assess the labor market two years into the COVID crisis. We show that early employment dynamics were almost entirely driven by...
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Labor Market Tightness and Union Activity
Pezold, Chantal; Jäger, Simon; Nüß, Patrick - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study how labor market conditions affect unionization decisions. Tight labor markets might spur unionization, e.g., by reducing the threat of unemployment after management opposition or employer retaliation in response to a unionization attempt. Tightness might also weaken unionization by...
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Time Use and Macroeconomic Uncertainty
Cacciatore, Matteo; Hauser, Daniela; Gnocchi, Stefano - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study the effects of uncertainty on time use and their macroeconomic implications. Employing data from the American Time Use Survey and the Bureau of Labor Statistics, we document that heightened uncertainty increases housework and reduces market work hours, mildly impacting leisure. We then...
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Spending and Job-Finding Impacts of Expanded Unemployment Benefits : Evidence from Administrative Micro Data
Ganong, Peter; Greig, Fiona E.; Noel, Pascal J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We show that the largest increase in unemployment benefits in U.S. history had large spending impacts and small job-finding impacts. This finding has three implications. First, increased benefits were important for explaining aggregate spending dynamics--but not employment dynamics--during the...
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The Impacts of Covid-19 Illnesses on Workers
Goda, Gopi Shah; Soltas, Evan J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We show that Covid-19 illnesses persistently reduce labor supply. Using an event study, we estimate that workers with week-long Covid-19 work absences are 7 percentage points less likely to be in the labor force one year later compared to otherwise-similar workers who do not miss a week of work...
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The Child Penalty Atlas
Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Landais, Camille; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
different regions of the world. The fraction of gender inequality explained by child penalties varies systematically with … minuscule fraction of gender inequality. But as economies develop -- incomes rise and the labor market transitions from … gender inequality. Because parenthood is often tied to marriage, we also investigate the existence of marriage penalties in …
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The Outlook for Women's Employment and Labor Force Participation
Albanesi, Stefania - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Employment and participation rates for US prime age women rose steadily during the second half of the 20th century. In …
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