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Unemployment and Infant Health : Times-Series Evidence from the State of Tennessee

Joyce, Theodore - 2010

The relationship between unemployment and health continues to absorb social scientists. The primary reason is the … potential significance of an association. If a substantial deterioration in aggregate health is related to economic downturns …

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A Time-Series Analysis of Unemployment and Health : the Case of Birth Outcomes in New York City

Joyce, Theodore - 2021

, family status, and employment. The paper presents an aggregate time-series analysis of unemployment and infant health that … of low-birthweight births is the health outcome. Because we are able to control for the race-specific percentage of women … proxy for maternal stress enters the production function as one among a set of well-defined health Inputs. Third, because a …

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Explaining the Decline in the U.S. Employment-to-Population Ratio : A Review of the Evidence

Abraham, Katharine G. - 2018

This paper first documents trends in employment rates and then reviews what is known about the various factors that have been proposed to explain the decline in the overall employment-to-population ratio between 1999 and 2018. Population aging has had a large effect on the overall employment...

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Unemployment, Unsatisfied Demand for Labor, and Compensation Growth in the United States, 1956-1980

Medoff, James L.; Abraham, Katharine G. - 2021

This paper presents two key facts which call into question the value of unemployment rates as barometers of labor market tightness. First, while both unemployment rates and unsatisfied labor demand proxies perform reasonably well on their own in compensation growth equations, in models which...

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