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region in the World. Expected future levels of education, very young and youth population, youth employment and unemployment …
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More than ten percent of Americans with recent work experience say they will continue social distancing after the COVID-19 pandemic ends, and another 45 percent will do so in limited ways. We uncover this Long Social Distancing phenomenon in our monthly Survey of Working Arrangements and...
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Employment and participation rates for US prime age women rose steadily during the second half of the 20th century. In … the last 30 years, however, those rates stagnated, even as employment and participation rates for women in other … barriers, such as limited investment in family policies, that may be holding back employment among American women today. The …
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employment-to-population ratio among prime-age US women declines by 1.1 percentage points, whereas male employment rises; women …--and corresponding lapses in implicit childcare--provide a unifying explanation for these patterns. The summer drop in female employment … allocation and gender differences within job types in the propensity to exit employment over the summer. Women's summer work …
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programs became well-funded but were late to start, limited in scope, and incapable of greatly increasing women's employment in …
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The recession induced by the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in major declines in employment of women, both from the demand … side as firms reduced employment and from the supply side resulting from school closures and the closing of many child care …
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We examine the differential effects of automation on the labor market and educational outcomes of women relative to men over the past four decades. Although women were disproportionately employed in occupations with a high risk of automation in 1980, they were more likely to shift to high-skill,...
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Between 1950 and 1970 the labor force participation rate of southern black males aged 16-19 declined by 27 percentage points. This decline has been attributed to two demand-side shocks: the mechanization of cotton agriculture in the 1950s and extensions in the coverage of the federal minimum...
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Black women were more likely than white women to participate in the labor force from 1870 until at least 1980 and to hold jobs in agriculture or manufacturing. Differences in observables cannot account for most of this racial gap in labor force participation for the 100 years after Emancipation....
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other countries. However, these policies also appear to encourage part-time work and employment in lower level positions: US …
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