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We examine how a 16-week cut in potential unemployment insurance (UI) duration in Missouri affected search behavior of UI recipients and the aggregate labor market. Using a regression discontinuity design (RDD), we estimate a marginal effect of maximum duration on UI and nonemployment spells of...
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We provide new evidence on the effect of the unemployment insurance (UI) weekly benefit amount on unemployment insurance spells based on administrative data from the state of Missouri covering the period 2003-2013. Identification comes from a regression kink design that exploits the...
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prior estimates by including ripple effects beyond the wages earned or taxes paid directly by migrants. The sharp reduction …
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to the conventional view that labor costs are procyclical. Using BLS establishment-job data, we find that even real wages …, the main focus of prior literature, have become countercyclical. Benefit expenditures are less rigid than nominal wages …
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It has become orthodox in economics research to interpret the association between hourly earnings and working hours as the expression of the preferences of workers. This convention originated in H. Gregg Lewis' explanation for the decline in hours of work since the nineteenth century. His...
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This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women's behavior in the United States – looking both over time with immigrants' residence in the United States and across immigrant generations. It focuses particularly on labor...
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The labor market differs from other markets in many respects. Most important is that those who supply labor also have to deliver it in person. It means firstly that the work environment and organization of work are important for those who deliver labor, since they are in the work place....
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experienced decreasing employment shares in top-paying positions. Moreover, starting wages and wage growth have both decreased …Concurrently with a steady increase of the supply of college educated workers, recent evidence for the U.S. indicated a … decline in the demand for and the real wages of this group after 2000. We investigate empirically, whether there has been a …
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that results are very sensitive to the treatment of hourly wages in the estimation. For example, different (sensible …) choices concerning the modeling of the underlying wage distribution and especially the imputation of (missing) wages lead to …
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observed in the 1980s, with an additional factor being that husbands' real wages fell slightly in the 1980s but rose in the … elasticity. And, continuing past trends, women's labor supply also became less responsive to their husbands' wages. Between 1980 … wages and work hours; and omitted variables that affect both wage offers and the propensity to work; as well as when age …
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