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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 … new lifecycle of employment is initially high and flat, there is a dip in the middle and a phasing out that is more … and greater labor force recovery for those who take paid or unpaid leave. Increased employment of women in their older …

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Women Working Longer : Facts and Some Explanations

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - 2016

cohorts. It would appear that employment at older ages could stagnate or even decrease. But several other factors will be …

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Measuring Economic Policy Uncertainty

Baker, Scott R. - 2016

find that policy uncertainty raises stock price volatility and reduces investment and employment in policy … foreshadow declines in investment, output, and employment in the United States and, in a panel VAR setting, for 12 major …

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Health, Employment, and Disability : Implications from the Undocumented Population

Borjas, George J. - 2018

Disability benefit recipients in the United States have nearly doubled in the past two decades, growing substantially faster than the population. It is difficult to estimate how much of this increase is explained by changes in population health, as we often lack a valid counterfactual. We...

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Putting the "Co" in education : timing, reasons, and consequences of college coeducation from 1835 to the present

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - In: Journal of human capital : JHC 5 (2011) 4, pp. 377-417

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The slowdown in the economic assimilation of immigrants : aging and cohort effects revisited again

Borjas, George J. - In: Journal of human capital : JHC 9 (2015) 4, pp. 483-517

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Shocking Labor Supply : A Reassessment of the Role of World War Ii on U.S. Women's Labor Supply

Goldin, Claudia; Olivetti, Claudia - 2013

The most prominent feature of the female labor force across the past hundred years is its enormous growth. But many believe that the increase was discontinuous. Our purpose is to identify the short- and long-run impacts of WWII on the labor supply of women who were currently married in 1950 and...

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Recent Trends in the Earnings of New Immigrants to the United States

Borjas, George J. - 2010

This paper studies long-term trends in the labor market performance of immigrants in the United States, using the 1960-2000 PUMS and 1994-2009 CPS. While there was a continuous decline in the earnings of new immigrants 1960-1990, the trend reversed in the 1990s, with newcomers doing as well in...

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The Evolution of the Mexican-Born Workforce in the United States

Borjas, George J. - 2018

This paper examines the evolution of the Mexican-born workforce in the United States using data drawn from the decennial U.S. Census throughout the entire 20th century. It is well known that there has been a rapid rise in Mexican immigration to the United States in recent years. Interestingly,...

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Long-Run Changes in the U.S. Wage Structure : Narrowing, Widening, Polarizing

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - 2010

employment shifts into high- and low-wage jobs at the expense of the middle leading to rapidly rising upper tail wage inequality …

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