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the unemployment rate and the adverse labor supply effect of the pandemic is more pronounced than implied by the labor …
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This paper analyzes the occupational status and distribution of free women in the antebellum United States. It considers both their reported and unreported (imputed) occupations, using the 1/100 IPUMS files from the 1860 Census of Population. After developing and testing the model based on...
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Estimated labor force participation rates among free women in the pre-Civil War period were exceedingly low. This is due, in part, to cultural or societal expectations of the role of women and the lack of thorough enumeration by Census takers. This paper develops an augmented labor force...
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Rates of labor force participation in the US in the second half of the nineteenth century among free women were exceedingly (and implausibly) low, about 11 percent. This is due, in part, to social perceptions of working women, cultural and societal expectations of female's role, and lack of...
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suggest that a more progressive tax schedule reduces the unemployment rate and increases the employment rate. These findings …
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This paper provides evidence on the behavior of reservation wages over the spell of unemployment using high … to 24 weeks, we find that self‐reported reservation wages decline at a modest rate over the spell of unemployment, with … point estimates ranging from 0.05 to 0.14 percent per week of unemployment. The decline in reservation wages is driven …
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stamps which partially insure productivity risk is greater than the value of unemployment insurance which provides (partial …) insurance against employment risk and no insurance against persistent shocks. -- Uncertainty ; life-cycle models ; unemployment …
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