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This paper analyzes economic behavior and the effects of training and income support policies in the low wage labor market for women. The opportunity set takes account of nonlinearities and discontinuities associated with career interruption, part-time work, and government programs. There are...
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status.Our empirical analysis suggests the following conclusions.1)Wages for work while not retired and for work while … to distinguish between wages paid to the partially retired and to the not retired causes a sizable exaggeration of the …
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This paper analyzes the school enrollment and labor supply decisions of teenagers and young adults as jointly deter-mined outcomes. The empirical results are based on an application of discrete multivariate analysis to a sample taken from the Survey of Income and Education. Higher relative wage...
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issues at the core of this ongoing debate. We find that the relationship between firm size and employment growth is sensitive …
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We develop a preliminary version of an Integrated Longitudinal Business Database (ILBD) that combines administrative records and survey data for all employer and nonemployer business units in the United States. Unlike other large-scale business databases, the ILBD tracks business transitions...
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, we exploit the recently developed Longitudinal Business Database (LBD), which contains annual observations on employment …, the employment-weighted mean volatility of firm growth rates has declined by more than 40% since 1982. This result stands … volatility among privately held firms. This pattern holds in every major industry group. Employment shifts toward older …
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This paper estimates the effects on steady state retirement by men of changes in pension" plans and social security in the 1970's and 1980's. Work incentives associated with pension" coverage and plan characteristics are calculated primarily from the 1969-79 Retirement History" Study and the...
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employment growth rate distribution grew about 31 percent faster than the median firm. Moreover, the 90-50 differential was 16 … percent larger than the 50-10 differential reflecting the positive skewness of the employment growth rate distribution. We … show that the shape of the firm employment growth distribution changes substantially in the post-2000 period. By 2007, the …
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The composition, wealth and employment of male veterans and nonveterans are analyzed for four cohorts from the Health …
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, age, and prior growth. Relative to controls, employment at target establishments declines 3 percent over two years post … at target firms are less than 1 percent of initial employment. In contrast, the sum of gross job creation and destruction … at target firms exceeds that of controls by 13 percent of employment over two years. In short, private equity buyouts …
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