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We expand the analysis of cyclical changes in labor demand by decomposing changes along the intensive margin into those in days/week and in hours/day. Using large cross sections of U.S. data, 1985-2018, we observe around 1/4 of the adjustment in weekly hours occurring through changing days/week....
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This study defines the nature of worker displacement and develops a mechanism for inferring the amount of losses caused by displacement in away that is tied to economic theory. Data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics are first used to identify the characteristics of displaced workers. After...
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Unemployment Compensation, and the likely impacts of that Commission and economists' research findings on policy. Using a … effects of unemployment insurance, with the degree of recognition proportional to the strength of the consensus among …
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additional leisure and personal maintenance, not in increased household production. There is no relation between unemployment … lower amount of market work in areas of long-term high unemployment is offset by additional household production. In … contrast, in those areas where unemployment has risen cyclically reduced market work is made up almost entirely by additional …
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states' unemployment insurance (UI) systems are changed when the federal government raises the minimum annual earnings on … tax ceiling. Holding constant changes in interstate differences in unemployment, where the federal constraint was binding …
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average loss of earnings, due to long spells of post-displacement unemployment and to subsequent reduced wages, is substantial …
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-work time is substantial and varies positively with the local unemployment rate. While average time spent by workers in non …-work conditional on any positive amount rises with the unemployment rate, the fraction of workers reporting positive values varies pro …-work with wage rates and measures of unemployment benefits in state data linked to the ATUS, and it is consistent with estimated …
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