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The New Lifecycle of Women's Employment : Disappearing Humps, Sagging Middles, Expanding Tops

Goldin, Claudia - 2019

A new lifecycle of women's employment emerged with cohorts born in the 1950s. For prior cohorts, lifecycle employment … new lifecycle of employment is initially high and flat, there is a dip in the middle and a phasing out that is more … and greater labor force recovery for those who take paid or unpaid leave. Increased employment of women in their older …

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Women Working Longer : Facts and Some Explanations

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - 2016

cohorts. It would appear that employment at older ages could stagnate or even decrease. But several other factors will be …

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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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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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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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National Banking's Role in U.S. Industrialization, 1850-1900

Jaremski, Matthew - 2013

The passage of the National Banking Acts stabilized the existing financial system and encouraged the entry of 729 banks between 1863 and 1866. The national banks not only attracted more deposits than previous state banks, but also concentrated in the area that would eventually become the...

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Shocking Labor Supply : A Reassessment of the Role of World War Ii on U.S. Women's Labor Supply

Goldin, Claudia; Olivetti, Claudia - 2013

The most prominent feature of the female labor force across the past hundred years is its enormous growth. But many believe that the increase was discontinuous. Our purpose is to identify the short- and long-run impacts of WWII on the labor supply of women who were currently married in 1950 and...

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Long-Run Changes in the U.S. Wage Structure : Narrowing, Widening, Polarizing

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - 2010

employment shifts into high- and low-wage jobs at the expense of the middle leading to rapidly rising upper tail wage inequality …

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