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Import Competition and the Great U.S. Employment Sag of the 2000s

Acemoglu, Daron - 2014

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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Return of the Solow Paradox? It, Productivity, and Employment in U.S. Manufacturing

Acemoglu, Daron - 2014

, when detectable, result from the even faster declines in employment …

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When Work Disappears : Manufacturing Decline and the Falling Marriage-Market Value of Young Men

Autor, David H. - 2017

, fertility and children's living circumstances during 1990-2014. On average, trade shocks differentially reduce employment and …

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Older Women's Labor Market Attachment, Retirement Planning, and Household Debt

Lusardi, Annamaria - 2016

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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Money and Interest Rates in the United States During the Great Depression

Basile, Peter - 2010

This paper reexamines the debate over whether the United States fell into a liquidity trap in the 1930s. We first review the literature on the liquidity trap focusing on Keynes's discussion of "absolute liquidity preference" and the division that soon emerged between Keynes, who believed that a...

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Financial Literacy and Retirement Planning in the United States

Lusardi, Annamaria - 2011

We examine financial literacy in the United States using the new National Financial Capability Study, wherein we demonstrate that financial literacy is particularly low among the young, women, and the less-educated. Moreover, Hispanics and African-Americans score the least well on financial...

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The China Syndrome : Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States

Autor, David H. - 2012

-quarter of the contemporaneous aggregate decline in U.S. manufacturing employment. Transfer benefits payments for unemployment …

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Banks, Free Banks, and U.S. Economic Growth

Jaremski, Matthew - 2012

The "Federalist financial revolution" may have jump-started the U.S. economy into modern growth, but the Free Banking System (1837-1862) did not play a direct role in sustaining it. Despite lowering entry barriers and extending banking into developing regions, we find in county-level data that...

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The Geography of Trade and Technology Shocks in the United States

Autor, David H. - 2013

This paper explores the geographic overlap of trade and technology shocks across local labor markets in the United States. Regional exposure to technological change, as measured by specialization in routine task-intensive production and clerical occupations, is largely uncorrelated with regional...

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Not Just the Great Contraction : Friedman and Schwartz's a Monetary History of the United States 1867 to 1960

Bordo, Michael D. - 2013

A Monetary History of the United States 1867 to 1960 published in 1963 was written as part of an extensive NBER research project on Money and Business Cycles started in the 1950s. The project resulted in three more books and many important articles. A Monetary History was designed to provide...

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