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Failing the Test? The Flexible U.S. Job Market in the Great Recession

Freeman, Richard B. - 2013

The Great Recession tested the ability of the "great U.S. jobs machine" to limit the severity of unemployment in a major economic downturn and to restore full employment quickly afterward. In the crisis the American labor market failed to live up to expectations. The level and duration of...

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Worker Needs and Voice in the US and the UK

Bryson, Alex - 2006

Workers have responded differently to declining union density in the US and UK. US workers have unfilled demand for unions whereas many UK workers free-ride at unionized workplaces. To explain this difference, we create a scalar measure of worker needs for representation and relate desire for...

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

Acemoglu, Daron - 2014

-level approaches to estimate the size of (a) employment losses in directly exposed manufacturing industries, (b) employment effects in … indirectly exposed upstream and downstream industries inside and outside manufacturing, and (c) the net effects of conventional …

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

Acemoglu, Daron - 2014

-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited support for more rapid productivity growth in IT …-intensive industries depending on the exact measures, though not since the late 1990s. Most challenging to this paradigm, and our … expectations, is that output contracts in IT-intensive industries relative to the rest of manufacturing. Productivity increases …

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