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The evolving impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on gender inequality in the U.S. labor market: the COVID motherhood penalty

Couch, Kenneth A.; Fairlie, Robert W.; Xu, Huanan - 2021

2020. We find that male-female gaps in the employment-to-population ratio and hours worked for women with school …

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The lot of the unemployed : a time use perspective

Krueger, Alan B. (contributor); Müller, Andreas (contributor) - 2008

This paper provides new evidence on time use and subjective well-being of employed and unemployed individuals in 14 countries. We devote particular attention to characterizing and modeling job search intensity, measured by the amount of time devoted to searching for a new job. Job search...

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Job search and unemployment insurance : new evidence from time use data

Krueger, Alan B. (contributor); Müller, Andreas (contributor) - 2008

This paper provides new evidence on job search intensity of the unemployed in the U.S., modeling job search intensity as time allocated to job search activities. The main findings are: 1) the average unemployed worker in the U.S. devotes about 41 minutes to job search on weekdays, which is...

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The prevalence and effects of occupational licensing

Kleiner, Morris M. (contributor); … - 2008

This study provides the first nation-wide analysis of the labor market implications of occupational licensing for the U.S. labor market, using data from a specially designed Gallup survey. We find that in 2006, 29 percent of the workforce was required to hold an occupational license from a...

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Race, ethnicity and the dynamics of health insurance coverage

Fairlie, Robert W. (contributor); … - 2008

Using matched data from the 1996 to 2004 Current Population Survey (CPS), we examine racial patterns in annual transitions into and out of health insurance coverage. We first decompose racial differences in static health insurance coverage rates into group differences in transition rates into...

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Last hired, first fired? : black-white unemployment and the business cycle

Couch, Kenneth A. (contributor); … - 2008

Past studies have tested the claim that blacks are the last hired during periods of economic growth and the first fired in recessions by examining the movement of relative unemployment rates over the business cycle. Any conclusion drawn from this type of analysis must be viewed as tentative...

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Gender differences in business performance : evidence from the characteristics of business owners survey

Fairlie, Robert W. (contributor); … - 2008

-owned businesses have lower survival rates, profits, employment and sales. We find that female-owned businesses are less successful …

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Wage formation between newly hired workers and employers : survey evidence

Hall, Robert Ernest (contributor); … - 2008

Some workers bargain with prospective employers before accepting a job. Others could bargain, but find it undesirable, because their right to bargain has induced a sufficiently favorable offer, which they accept. Yet others perceive that they cannot bargain over pay; they regard the posted wage...

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Liquidity constraints, household wealth, and entrepreneurship revisited

Fairlie, Robert W. (contributor); … - 2006

determinants of entry into self-employment. They demonstrate that the oft-cited positive relationship between entry rates and … demonstrate that bifurcating the sample into workers who enter self-employment after job loss and those who do not reveals … significantly positive determinant of entry into self-employment. Our estimates indicate that a 10 percent annual increase in …

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Entrepreneurship, self-employment and business data : an introduction to several large, nationally-representative datasets

Fairlie, Robert W.; Robb, Alicia M. - 2009

, employment, payroll, profits and industry) from these datasets is contained in Fairlie and Robb (2008). -- Entrepreneurship … ; self-employment ; business owners ; small businesses ; data …

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