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From the Valley to the Summit : The Quiet Revolution that Transformed Women'S Work
Goldin, Claudia - 2021
the 1940s. Whatever the precise reasons for change, a great divide in college-graduate women's lives and employment …
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Monitoring Costs and Occupational Segregation by Sex : an Historical Analysis
Goldin, Claudia - 2022
Supervisory and monitoring costs are explored to understand aspects of occupational segregation by sex. Around the turn of this century 47 percent of all female manufacturing operatives were paid by the piece, but only 13 percent of the males were. There were very few males and females employed...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012983658
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How Does the U.S. Government Finance Fiscal Shocks?
Berndt, Antje - 2010
We develop a method for identifying and quantifying the fiscal channels that help finance government spending shocks. We define fiscal shocks as surprises in defense spending and show that they are more precisely identified when defense stock data are used in addition to aggregate macroeconomic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137024
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Does Policy Communication During Covid Work?
Coibion, Olivier - 2020
Using a large-scale survey of U.S. households during the Covid-19 pandemic, we study how new information about fiscal and monetary policy responses to the crisis affects households' expectations. We provide random subsets of participants in the Nielsen Homescan panel with different combinations...
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The Costs and Benefits of Fiscal Rules : Evidence from U.S. States
Alesina, Alberto F.; Bayoumi, Tamim - 2022
This paper shows that in American states balanced budget rules are effective in enforcing fiscal discipline but they have no costs in terms of increased output variability. More specifically, we show that tighter fiscal rules are associated with larger average surplus and lower cyclical...
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Marriage Bars : Discrimination Against Married Women Workers, 1920'S to 1950'S
Goldin, Claudia - 2021
Modern personnel practices, social consensus, and the Depression acted in concert to delay the emergence of married women in the American economy through an institution known as the "marriage bar." Marriage bars were policies adopted by firms and local school boards, from about the early 1900's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013220807
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Changes in Workplace Segregation in the United States between 1990 and 2000 : Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data
Hellerstein, Judith K. - 2010
high - not experienced rapid employment growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760096
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Changes in the Relative Structure of Wages and Employment : A Comparison of the United States, Canada, and France
Card, David - 2010
Standard models suggest that adverse labor demand shocks will lead to bigger employment losses if institutional factors … explains the contrast between the United States, where real wages fell over the 1980s and aggregate employment expanded … vigorously, and Europe, where real wages were (roughly) constant and employment was stagnant. We test this hypothesis by …
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