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Effects of employer-provided severance benefits on reemployment outcomes

Kodrzycki, Yolanda K. - In: New England Economic Review (1998) Nov, pp. 41-68

Surveys have shown that many employers offer severance packages to their laid-off workers and that severance pay provides substantial income for many people displaced from long-time jobs. Yet little, if anything , is known about the effects of severance pay. Does it lead people to alter the...

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The evolution of regional manufacturing employment: gross job flows within and between firms and industries

Schuh, Scott; Triest, Robert K. - In: New England Economic Review (2002) Q 3, pp. 35-53

distribution of manufacturing employment is due to the movement of particular firms and industries to the Sunbelt in search of …-growing manufacturing industries than those clustered in the North. And the Sunbelt may also have been the preferred location for … degree are the varying fortunes of regions due to employment reallocation within industries? …

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New England as the twenty-first century approaches: no time for complacency

Flynn, Patricia M.; Gittell, Ross J.; Sedgley, Norman H. - In: New England Economic Review (1999) Nov, pp. 41-53

. Within manufacturing the trend has been away from nondurable goods into high value-added, high-tech industries. In this …

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"Whither New England"?

McNees, Stephen K.; Tootell, Geoffrey M. B. - In: New England Economic Review (1991) Jul, pp. 11-26

This article attempts to identify precursors, or indicators, of New England employment. The predictive power of a diverse array of variables is calculated and compared. However, because no single variable is likely to contain all information of predictive value, the article then explores...

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Rising tide in the labor market: to what degree do expansions benefit the disadvantaged?

Bradbury, Katharine L. - In: New England Economic Review (2000) May, pp. 3-33

The current U.S. economic expansion is unusually long and strong. Has it served as a "rising tide" to float all boats in the labor market benefiting everyone? To what degree are groups that are typically disadvantaged in the labor market-blacks, women, teens, the less educated-participating in...

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Discouraged and other marginally attached workers: evidence on their role in the labor market

Kodrzycki, Yolanda K. - In: New England Economic Review (2000) May, pp. 35-40

The combination of very low unemployment rates and somewhat limited wage and salary pressures has called into question our ability to measure labor market tightness. One issue is the extent to which labor availability is understated, given the existence of people who are not actively looking for...

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The impact of employer payments for health insurance and social security on the premium for education and earnings inequality

Little, Jane Sneddon - In: New England Economic Review (1995) May, pp. 25-40

The trend toward increased wage and income inequality that emerged in the 1980s—with "the rich getting richer and the poor poorer"—has attracted a great deal of attention and concern. One aspect of this phenomenon has been the growing premium for education, with the disparity between the...

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Spatial effects upon employment outcomes: the case of New Jersey teenagers

O'Regan, Katherine M.; Quigley, John M. - In: New England Economic Review (1996) May, pp. 41-64

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The effects of foreign direct investment on U.S. employment during recession and structural change

Little, Jane Sneddon - In: New England Economic Review (1986) Nov, pp. 40-48

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Exchange rates and structural change in U.S. manufacturing employment

Little, Jane Sneddon - In: New England Economic Review (1989) Mar, pp. 56-70

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