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The Effect of Inequality on Redistribution : An Econometric Analysis
Boskin, Michael J.; Elnahal, Kareem; Zhang, Adam - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Using data on U.S. state and federal taxes and transfers over a quarter century, we estimate a regression model that yields the marginal effect of any shift of market income share from one quintile to another on the entire post tax, post-transfer income distribution. We identify exogenous income...
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Macroeconomic policy in recessions and unemployment hysteresis
Sturn, Simon - In: Applied economics letters 21 (2014) 13/15, pp. 914-917
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Dissecting Okun's law beyond time and frequency
Krüger, Jens; Neugart, Michael - In: Applied economics letters 28 (2021) 20, pp. 1744-1749
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The effect of unemployment on noncognitive skills
Kleinjans, Kristin J. - In: Applied economics letters 27 (2020) 17, pp. 1387-1390
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Labour demand in the time of post-COVID-19
Krumel, Thomas Patten; Goodrich, Corey; Fiala, Nathan - In: Applied economics letters 30 (2023) 3, pp. 343-348
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The added worker effect over the business cycle : evidence from urban Mexico
Parker, Susan; Skoufias, Emmanuel - In: Applied economics letters 11 (2004) 10, pp. 625-630
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Asset Prices and Unemployment Fluctuations : A Resolution of the Unemployment Volatility Puzzle
Kehoe, Patrick J.; Lopez, Pierlauro; Midrigan, Virgiliu; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Recent work has demonstrated that existing solutions of the unemployment volatility puzzle are at odds with the …. Our model reproduces the observed fluctuations in unemployment because hiring a worker is a risky investment with long … therefore greatly declines, leading to a large decrease in job vacancies and an increase in unemployment of the same magnitude …
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Is Healthcare Employment Resilient and "Recession Proof"?
Dillender, Marcus; Friedson, Andrew; Thanh Cong Gian; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Conventional wisdom often holds that the healthcare sector fares better than other sectors during economic downturns. However, little research has examined the relationship between local economic conditions and healthcare employment. Understanding how the healthcare sector responds to economic...
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STEM Employment Resiliency During Recessions : Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic
Davis, James C.; Diethorn, Holden A.; Marschke, Gerald; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Employment in STEM occupations suffered smaller peak-to-trough percentage declines than non-STEM occupations during the Great Recession and COVID-19 recession, suggesting a relative resiliency of STEM employment. We exploit the sudden peak-to-trough declines in STEM and non-STEM employment...
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Worker Beliefs About Outside Options
Jäger, Simon; Roth, Christopher; Roussille, Nina; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Workers wrongly anchor their beliefs about outside options on their current wage. In particular, low-paid workers underestimate wages elsewhere. We document this anchoring bias by eliciting workers' beliefs in a representative survey in Germany and comparing them to measures of actual outside...
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