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Beaudry, Paul - 2010

Does attracting or losing jobs in high paying sectors have important spill-over effects on wages in other sectors? The answer to this question is central to a proper assessment of many trade and industrial policies. In this paper, we explore this question by examining how predictable changes in...

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Striking at the Roots of Crime : The Impact of Social Welfare Spending on Crime During the Great Depression

Johnson, Ryan - 2010

The Great Depression of the 1930s led contemporaries to worry that people hit by hard times would turn to crime in their efforts to survive. Franklin Roosevelt argued that the unprecedented and massive expansion in relief efforts quot;struck at the roots of crimequot; by providing subsistence...

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Reservation Wages and Unemployment Insurance

Shimer, Robert - 2010

welfare. This insight leads to a novel test for the optimality of unemployment insurance based on the responsiveness of … reservation wages to unemployment benefits. Some existing estimates imply significant gains to raising the current level of … unemployment benefits in the United States, but highlight the need for more research on the determinants of reservation wages. Our …

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High School Alcohol Use and Young Adult Labor Market Outcomes

Chatterji, Pinka - 2010

behaviors in 10th grade eliminates the unemployment effect, but strengthens the wage effect. As the latter is not explicable by …

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Market Responses to the Panic of 2008

Mulligan, Casey B. - 2008

employment, GDP, and unemployment. The release of resources from the housing sector lowers investment goods prices, and thereby …

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The Dynamics of Relief Spending and the Private Urban Labor Market During the New Deal

Neumann, Todd - 2014

rates of unemployment. We examine the dynamic relationships between relief spending and local private labor markets using a …

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The Firm's Role in Displaced Workers' Earnings Losses

Scott-Clayton, Judith - 2019

We use employer-employee matched administrative data from Ohio to study the role of firm pay premiums in explaining the large, persistent earnings losses of displaced workers. We estimate that earnings for displaced workers from the mid-2000s are depressed by 22 percent after four years,...

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This Time it's Different : The Role of Women's Employment in a Pandemic Recession

Alon, Titan - 2020

caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the opposite is true: unemployment is higher among women. In this paper, we analyze the …

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Projecting Unemployment Durations : A Factor-Flows Simulation Approach with Application to the Covid-19 Recession

Chodorow-Reich, Gabriel - 2020

We propose a three-step factor-flows simulation-based approach to forecast the duration distribution of unemployment … history. Step 2: relate the aggregate components to the overall unemployment rate using a factor model. Step 3: combine the … individual duration dependence, factor structure, and an auxiliary forecast of the unemployment rate to simulate a panel of …

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The Well-Being of the Overemployed and the Underemployed and the Rise in Depression in the UK

Bell, David N.F. - 2018

in 2010 that is not matched by declines in happiness measures (positive affect). The fear of unemployment obtained from …

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