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at most 9 workers in the US and the UK and at most 19 workers in Canada. The Index aggregates a sample of anonymous … QuickBooks Online Payroll subscriber data (QBO Payroll sample) from 333,000 businesses in the US, 66,000 in Canada, and 25,000 in …
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More than ten percent of Americans with recent work experience say they will continue social distancing after the COVID-19 pandemic ends, and another 45 percent will do so in limited ways. We uncover this Long Social Distancing phenomenon in our monthly Survey of Working Arrangements and...
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remotely one or more days per week rose more than three-fold in the U.S and by a factor of five or more in Australia, Canada …
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other states that were not targeted. We document that DOJ antitrust enforcement actions permanently increase employment by 5 … increase in employment, meaning that DOJ antitrust enforcement increases average wages, (2) an economically smaller increase in … the quantity and price of output, the increase in production inputs (employment), together with a proportionally smaller …
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How do firms mitigate the impact of rising temperatures on employment? Using establishment-level data, we show that … firms operating in multiple counties in the United States respond to heat shocks by reducing employment in the affected … employment but induces a spatial redistribution of economic activity …
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employment dynamics were almost entirely driven by temporary layoffs and later recalls. Taking these into account, we show that … labor market had largely recovered and was characterized by extremely tight markets and a slightly depressed employment … predictions that COVID would dramatically and permanently change the way we live and work. We do see that employment has …
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We expand the analysis of cyclical changes in labor demand by decomposing changes along the intensive margin into those in days/week and in hours/day. Using large cross sections of U.S. data, 1985-2018, we observe around 1/4 of the adjustment in weekly hours occurring through changing days/week....
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We revisit time-variation in the Phillips curve, applying new Bayesian panel methods with breakpoints to US and European Union disaggregate data. Our approach allows us to accurately estimate both the number and timing of breaks in the Phillips curve. It further allows us to determine the...
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We develop a dynamic microsimulation model to project the labor force and economic dependency ratios in the United States from 2022 to 2060, taking population projections and the large inequalities between population groups of different race/ethnicity and gender into account. We contrast policy...
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To better understand the tight post-pandemic labor market in the US, we decompose the decline in aggregate hours worked into the extensive (fewer people working) and the intensive margin changes (workers working fewer hours). Although the pre-existing trend of lower labor force participation...
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