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Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back … the considerable gains in employment rates it had achieved during the 1990s, with major contractions in manufacturing … employment being a prime contributor to the slump. The U.S. employment "sag" of the 2000s is widely recognized but poorly …
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, when detectable, result from the even faster declines in employment …
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U.S. output has expanded only slowly since the recession trough in 2009, even though the unemployment rate has essentially returned to a pre-crisis, normal level. We use a growth-accounting decomposition to explore explanations for the output shortfall, giving full treatment to cyclical effects...
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, fertility and children's living circumstances during 1990-2014. On average, trade shocks differentially reduce employment and …
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The goal of this paper is to ascertain whether older women's current and anticipated future labor force patterns have changed over time, and if so, to evaluate the factors associated with longer work lives and plans to continue work at older ages. Using data from both the Health and Retirement...
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less skilled and their employment responses to adverse employment shocks. Following program liberalization in 1984, DI …
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(TFP) that are common across countries. We find that automation displaces employment and reduces labor's share of value …-added in the industries in which it originates (a direct effect). In the case of employment, these own-industry losses are … employment across industries and the aggregate fall in the labor share over the last three decades. It does not, however, explain …
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We reassess the effect of state and federal minimum wages on U.S. earnings inequality using two additional decades of data and far greater variation in minimum wages than was available to earlier studies. We argue that prior literature suffers from two sources of bias and propose an IV strategy...
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Studies of the firm's demand for factor inputs often assume a constant rate of utilization of the inputs and ignore the fact that the firm can simultaneously choose the level and the rate of utilization of its inputs. In particular, the literature on dynamic factor demand models has, until...
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disabilities to reach their employment potential or earn their own way. Second, the program's expenditures on cash transfers and … that would modify the program to slow growth while potentially improving the employment prospects of workers with …
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