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The Disappointing Recovery of Output after 2009

Fernald, John G. - 2017

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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Racial Differences in American Women's Labor Market Outcomes : A Long-Run View

Collins, William J. - 2017

This paper documents and explores black-white differences in U.S. women's labor force participation, occupations, and wages from 1940 to 2014. It draws on closely related research on selection into the labor force, discrimination, and pre-labor market characteristics, such as test scores, that...

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Evaluation of the Reggio Approach to Early Education

Biroli, Pietro - 2017

employment, socio-emotional skills, high school graduation, election participation, and obesity. Comparisons with individuals …

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Firms' Internal Networks and Local Economic Shocks

Giroud, Xavier - 2017

This paper shows that firms spread the adverse impacts of local employment shocks across regions through their internal … establishment-level employment responds strongly to employment shocks in other regions in which the firm has establishments …. Consistent with theory, the elasticity of establishment-level employment with respect to shocks in other regions is increasing …

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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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Social Security Reforms and the Changing Retirement Behavior in Sweden

Palme, Marten - 2018

measures concur with changes in employment rates among older workers.Institutional subscribers to the NBER working paper series …

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The Economic Value of Breaking Bad : Misbehavior, Schooling and the Labor Market

Papageorge, Nicholas W. - 2019

Prevailing research argues that childhood misbehavior in the classroom is bad for schooling and, presumably, bad for labor market outcomes. In contrast, we argue that some childhood misbehavior represents underlying socio-emotional skills that are valuable in the labor market. We follow work...

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The Declining Labor Market Prospects of Less-Educated Men

Binder, Ariel - 2019

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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Us Exports and Employment

Feenstra, Robert C. - 2017

We examine the employment responses to import competition from China and to global export expansion from the United …

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Old-Age Labor Force Participation in Germany : What Explains the Trend Reversal Among Older Men? And What the Steady Increase Among Women?

Börsch-Supan, Axel H. - 2017

The aim of this paper is to illustrate for Germany the factors that may explain the U-shaped pattern of older men's labor force participation - from a long declining trend that began in the early 1970s to an increasing trend starting from the late 1990s - and at the same time the steady increase...

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