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Families in macroeconomics
Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michele - 2016
Much of macroeconomics is concerned with the allocation of physical capital, human capital, and labor over time and across people. The decisions on savings, education, and labor supply that generate these variables are made within families. Yet the family (and decision-making in families) is...
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Man-cessions, fiscal policy, and the gender composition of employment
Bredemeier, Christian; Jüßen, Falko; Winkler, Roland - 2015
In recessions, predominantly men lose their jobs, which has given rise to the term "man-cessions". We analyze whether fiscal expansions bring men back into jobs. To do so, we estimate vector-autoregressive models and identify the effects of fiscal shocks and non-fiscal shocks on the gender...
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Macroeconomic determinants of retirement timing
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Song, Jae; Stolyarov, Dmitriy - 2013
We analyze lifetime earnings histories of white males during 1960-2010 and categorize the labor force status of every worker as either working full-time, partially retired or fully retired. We find that the fraction of partially retired workers has risen dramatically (from virtually 0 to 15...
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The ins and outs of involuntary part-time employment
Borowczyk-Martins, Daniel; Lalé, Etienne - 2018
We develop an adjustment procedure to construct U.S. monthly time series of involuntary part-time employment stocks and flows from 1976 until today. Armed with these new data, we provide a comprehensive account of the dynamics of involuntary part-time work. Transitions from full-time to...
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A reappraisal of the inflation-unemployment tradeoff
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002
This paper offers a reappraisal of the inflation-unemployment tradeoff, based on "frictional growth" describing the interplay between nominal frictions and money growth. When the money supply grows in the presence of price inertia (due to staggered wage contracts with time discounting), the...
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Employment verification mandates and the labor market outcomes of likely unauthorized and native workers
Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Bansak, Cynthia - 2013
impact that the enactment of various types of E-verify mandates may have on the employment and wages of these two populations … likelihood of native workers. Impacts on wages are positive for likely unauthorized women suggesting a large labor supply … reduction. For native-born workers, hourly wages also increase and provide some evidence of substitutability of unauthorized …
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Bullying at school and labour market outcomes
Drydakis, Nick - 2013
labour force participation, employment rate and hourly wages are negatively affected by bullying. In addition, men … wages. Moreover, Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions suggest that labour force participation gaps, employment gaps and hourly wage … the labour market and lower wages. …
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Labor market effects of US sick pay mandates
Pichler, Stefan; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2016
market consequences. We use the Synthetic Control Group Method (SCGM) and the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW …) to estimate the causal effect of mandated sick leave on employment and wages. Our findings do not provide much evidence … that employment or wages were significantly affected by the mandates which typically allow employees to earn one hour of …
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Does private schooling increase adult earnings? : cohort-level evidence for U.S. states
Berger, Reilee L.; Winters, John V. - 2016
Public schooling in the U.S. has numerous critics, many of whom suggest that alternatives such as providing vouchers for private schools may be more effective. This paper combines decennial census and American Community Survey data for various years to examine the relationship between...
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The effects of paid family leave in California on labor market outcomes
Baum, Charles L.; Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2014
life and possibly also on wages. …
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