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Women Working Longer : Facts and Some Explanations

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - 2016

American women are working more, through their sixties and even into their seventies. Their increased participation at older ages started in the late 1980s before the turnaround in older men's labor force participation and the economic downturns of the 2000s. The higher labor force participation...

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U.S. Inequality, Fiscal Progressivity, and Work Disincentives : An Intragenerational Accounting

Auerbach, Alan J. - 2016

This study combines the 2013 Federal Reserve Survey of Consumer Finances data and the Fiscal Analyzer, a highly detailed life-cycle consumption-smoothing program, to a) measure ultimate economic inequality – inequality in lifetime spending power – within cohorts, b) assess fiscal...

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Do Unemployment Insurance Recipients Actively Seek Work? Randomized Trials in Four U.S. States

Ashenfelter, Orley; Ashmore, David; Deschenes, Olivier - 2021

In the last two decades, U.S. policies have moved from the use of incentives to the use of sanctions to promote work effort in social programs. Surprisingly, except for anecdotes, there is very little systematic evidence of the extent to which sanctions applied to the abusive use of social...

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Do Unemployment Insurance Benefits Improve Match and Employer Quality? Evidence from Recent U.S. Recessions

Farooq, Ammar; Kugler, Adriana D.; Muratori, Umberto - 2022

Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits have a moral hazard effect and a liquidity effect, with both generating increases in unemployment spells but the latter increasing wages due to the ability to find better matches or better jobs. Previous papers, however, find mixed evidence on the impact of...

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Evaluation of Four Tax Reforms in the United States : Labor Supply and Welfare Effects for Single Mothers

Eissa, Nada; Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Kreiner, Claus … - 2021

A large literature evaluating the welfare effects of taxation has examined the role of the labor supply elasticity, and … effect on each margin is created by a different tax wedge. Finally, ignoring the composition of the labor supply elasticity … the total labor supply elasticity is as important as its size …

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Task Specialization in U.S. Cities from 1880-2000

Michaels, Guy - 2013

We develop a new methodology for quantifying the tasks undertaken within occupations using over 3,000 verbs from more than 12,000 occupational descriptions in the Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOTs). Using micro-data from the United States from 1880-2000, we find an increase in the...

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Job Loss, Job Finding, and Unemployment in the U.S. Economy Over the Past Fifty Years

Hall, Robert E. - 2021

New data compel a new view of events in the labor market during a recession. Unemployment rises almost entirely because jobs become harder to find. Recessions involve little increase in the flow of workers out of jobs. Another important finding from new data is that a large fraction of workers...

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Systemic Discrimination Among Large U.S. Employers

Kline, Patrick; Rose, Evan K.; Walters, Christopher - 2023

We study the results of a massive nationwide correspondence experiment sending more than 83,000 fictitious applications with randomized characteristics to geographically dispersed jobs posted by 108 of the largest U.S. employers. Distinctively Black names reduce the probability of employer...

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Trends in the Transitory Variance of Male Earnings in the U.S., 1970-2004

Moffitt, Robert A. - 2011

We estimate the trend in the transitory variance of male earnings in the U.S. using the Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics from 1970 to 2004. Using both an error components model as well as simpler but only approximate methods, we find that the transitory variance started to increase in the...

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Explaining Investment Dynamics in U.S. Manufacturing : A Generalized (S,S) Approach

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2011

In this paper we derive a model of aggregate investment that builds from the lumpy microeconomic behavior of firms facing stochastic fixed adjustment costs. Instead of the standard (S,s) bands, firms' optimal adjustment policies are probabilistic, with a probability of adjusting (adjustment...

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