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The rapid growth of offshoring has sparked a contentious debate over its impact on the U.S. manufacturing sector, which … has recorded steep employment declines yet strong output growth - a fact reconciled by the notable gains in manufacturing … generally are not captured in input cost and import price indexes. To assess the implications of offshoring bias for …
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growth of domestic and foreign outsourcing and offshoring. First, outsourcing and offshoring are poorly measured in U ….S. statistics, and poor measurement may impart a significant bias to manufacturing and, where offshoring is involved, aggregate … impossible to fully assess the impact that mismeasurement and cost savings from outsourcing and offshoring have had on measured …
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We compare older workers' plans for work and retirement with their subsequent work and retirement outcomes using panel data from the Health and Retirement Study. Among those with retirement plans, about half indicate they would like to cut back on their work hours or otherwise change the type of...
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capital affects work-family conflict and how both social capital and work-family conflict affect employment. I analyze the …: it keeps them out of the labor force and makes it more difficult for women who want to work to maintain employment …
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Employer-provided health benefit coverage for workers who retire before age 65 has fallen over the last decade. We examine a cohort of male workers from the Health and Retirement Survey to examine questions about the dynamics of retiree health benefits and the relationship between retiree health...
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women who serve in such disproportionate numbers. This paper investigates the civilian employment experiences of female … evaluate the employment experiences of female veterans. Second, data from an audit study of civilian hiring practices provides … force attachment. Only white women show slightly lower rates of employment (among those in the labor force), while black …
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