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Women Working Longer : Facts and Some Explanations

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - 2016

American women are working more, through their sixties and even into their seventies. Their increased participation at older ages started in the late 1980s before the turnaround in older men's labor force participation and the economic downturns of the 2000s. The higher labor force participation...

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The New Lifecycle of Women's Employment : Disappearing Humps, Sagging Middles, Expanding Tops

Goldin, Claudia - 2019

A new lifecycle of women's employment emerged with cohorts born in the 1950s. For prior cohorts, lifecycle employment had a hump shape; it increased from the twenties to the forties, hit a peak and then declined starting in the fifties. The new lifecycle of employment is initially high and flat,...

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Why Firms Offer Paid Parental Leave : An Exploratory Study

Goldin, Claudia; Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Olivetti, Claudia - 2022

Why do competitive firms in the US provide paid parental leave (PPL)? Which firms do and to what extent? We use several firm- and individual-level data sets to answer these questions. These include the BLS-Employee Benefit Survey (EBS) for 2010 to 2018 and an extensive firm-level data collection...

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Rent-Sharing, Holdup, and Wages : Evidence from Matched Panel Data

Card, David - 2010

When wage contracts are relatively short-lived, rent sharing may reduce the incentives for investment since some of the returns to sunk capital are captured by workers. In this paper we use a matched worker-firm data set from the Veneto region of Italy that combines Social Security earnings...

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Workplace Heterogeneity and the Rise of West German Wage Inequality

Card, David - 2014

different establishments, and increasing assortativeness in the matching of workers to plants. We use the models to decompose …

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The Spike at Benefit Exhaustion : Leaving the Unemployment System or Starting a New Job?

Card, David - 2010

In this paper, we review the literature on the quot;spikequot; in unemployment exit rates around benefit exhaustion, and present new evidence based on administrative data for a large sample of job losers in Austria. We find that the way unemployment spells are measured has a large effect on the...

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Cash-on-Hand and Competing Models of Intertemporal Behavior : New Evidence from the Labor Market

Card, David - 2010

This paper presents new tests of the permanent income hypothesis and other widely used models of household behavior using data from the labor market. We estimate the quot;excess sensitivityquot; of job search behavior to cash-on-hand using sharp discontinuities in eligibility for severance pay...

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The Value of Postsecondary Credentials in the Labor Market : An Experimental Study

Deming, David J.; Yuchtman, Noam; Abulafi, Amira; … - 2014

We study employers' perceptions of the value of postsecondary degrees using a field experiment. We randomly assign the sector and selectivity of institutions to fictitious resumes and apply to real vacancy postings for business and health jobs on a large online job board. We find that a business...

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Nonlinear Policy Rules and the Identification and Estimation of Causal Effects in a Generalized Regression Kink Design

Card, David - 2012

We consider nonparametric identification and estimation in a nonseparable model where a continuous regressor of … endogenous assignment variable (like previous earnings). We provide new results on identification and estimation for these … settings, and apply our results to obtain estimates of the elasticity of joblessness with respect to UI benefit rates. We …

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The Effect of Unemployment Benefits on the Duration of Unemployment Insurance Receipt : New Evidence from a Regression Kink Design in Missouri, 2003-2013

Card, David - 2018

find that UI durations are more responsive to benefit levels during the recession and its aftermath, with an elasticity …

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