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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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Over the last half century, U.S. wage growth stagnated, wage inequality rose, and the labor-force participation rate of prime-age men steadily declined. In this article, we examine these labor market trends, focusing on outcomes for males without a college education. Though wages and...
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We review the burgeoning literature on the employment effects of minimum wages - in the United States and other … wide range of existing estimates and, accordingly, a lack of consensus about the overall effects on low-wage employment of … view that the minimum wage reduces the employment of low-wage workers is clearly incorrect. A sizable majority of the …
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discrimination laws – raising the cost of employment because of the need to accommodate disabled workers. Moreover, disability …
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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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This paper addresses the interplay between health and labor market behavior in the later part of the working life. We use the longitudinal Health and Retirement Survey to analyze the dynamic relationship between health and alternative labor force transitions, including labor force exit, job...
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although increases in minimum wages have small net effects on overall teen employment rates, such increases raise the … the small net disemployment effects for teenagers as a group, there are significant enrollment and employment shifts …
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During the 1990s, while overall employment rates for working-aged men and women either remained roughly constant (men …) or rose (women), employment rates for the disabled fell. During the same period the fraction of the working … relative employment position of the disabled …
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-cancer control group in employment, hours worked, wages, and earnings. Overall, breast cancer has a negative impact on the decision …'s employment, breast cancer may not be debilitating for those who remain in the work force. We explore numerous possible biases …
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observations on most businesses located in California. The evidence indicates that enterprise zones do not increase employment. We … also find no shift of employment toward the lower-wage workers targeted by enterprise zone incentives. We conclude that the …
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