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The consequences of long term unemployment : evidence from matched employer-employee data
Abraham, Katharine G.; Haltiwanger, John C.; Sandusky, … - 2016
It is well known that the long-term unemployed fare worse in the labor market than the short-term unemployed, but less clear why this is so. One potential explanation is that the long-term unemployed are "bad apples" who had poorer prospects from the outset of their spells (heterogeneity)....
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Wage and productivity dispersion in US manufacturing : the role of computer investment
Dunne, Timothy; Foster, Lucia; Haltiwanger, John C.; … - 2002
production, wages, and employment that have occurred over the last several decades. We investigate the following two related … hypotheses. First, that most of the recent increase in the dispersion of wages and productivity has occurred across … establishments and these changes are linked. Second, that the increased dispersion in wages and productivity across establishments is …
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