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It has been well documented that employment outcomes often differ considerably across areas. This paper examines the … external effects on labor force participation and employment for U.S. metropolitan area residents. The empirical results … employment for both women and men. We also find that less educated workers generally receive the largest external benefits …
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employment and earnings. To account for endogenous migration decisions, we instrument for oil and gas production in workers …' state of residence via the predicted percent of oil and gas employment in their state of birth. We find statistically …
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COVID-19 substantially decreased employment, but the effects vary among demographic and socioeconomic groups. We … document the employment losses in April 2020 across various groups using the U.S. Current Population Survey. The unemployment … rate understates employment losses. We focus on the percentage of the civilian population that is employed and at work …
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We examine effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on employment losses across metropolitan area status and population size …. Non-metropolitan and metropolitan areas of all sizes experienced significant employment losses, but the impacts are much … larger in large metropolitan areas. Employment losses manifest as increased unemployment, labor force withdrawal, and …
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difficulties maintaining worker health and productivity during the COVID-19 pandemic. We examine employment status changes of … pandemic significantly reduced the probability of continued active employment for previous workers in both food manufacturing … market is a strong and significant factor. The employment changes are not just due to unemployment during facility closures …
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This study estimates effects of minimum wages on individual restaurant employment using the 2005-2019 Current … decrease restaurant employment for teens and increase restaurant employment for these adults, suggesting that minimum wages … for minimum wages on teen restaurant employment in non-metropolitan areas is not statistically significant. …
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About 5 percent of U.S. workers hold multiple jobs, which can exacerbate or mitigate employment changes over the …
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Quality of life differences across areas can be measured by differences in "real wages" where real wages are computed as nominal wages adjusted for the cost of living. Computing cost of living differences involves several important issues, including how housing prices should be measured....
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towns" and investigates differences in employment outcomes between college graduates who stay in the college town where they … experience less favorable employment outcomes along multiple dimensions. On average, stayers earn lower annual and hourly wages …
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Progress in narrowing black-white earnings differences has been far from continuous, with some of the apparent progress resulting from labor force withdrawal among lower-skilled African Americans. This paper builds on prior research and documents racial and ethnic differences in male earnings...
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