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Black employment trends since the Great Recession
Masterson, Thomas - 2018
The Great Recession had a devastating impact on labor force participation and employment. This impact was not unlike … unusual pattern of recovery in employment by race. The black employment-population ratio has increased since bottoming out in … 2010, while the white employment-population ratio has remained flat. This paper examines trends in labor force …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012142962
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Simulations of employment for individuals in LIMTCP consumption-poor households in Tanzania and Ghana, 2012
Masterson, Thomas; Kim, Kijong; Rios-Avila, Fernando - 2016
New methodology for producing employment microsimulations is introduced, with a focus on farms and household nonfarm … when household members are placed in paid employment. In this paper, we present a method for addressing the trade …-off between paid employment and the farm and nonfarm business activities individuals may already be engaged in. The implementation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011784661
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The Great Recession and racial inequality: Evidence from measures of economic well-being
Masterson, Thomas; Zacharias, Ajit; Rios-Avila, Fernando; … - 2017
losses in terms of employment and earnings are matched only by the losses in terms of real wealth. In many ways, however …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011784670
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Quality of match for statistical matches used in the 1992 and 2007 LIMEW estimates for the United States
Masterson, Thomas - 2010
The quality of match of four statistical matches used in the LIMEW estimates for the United States for 1992 and 2007 is described. The first match combines the 1992 Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) with the 1993 March Supplement to the Current Population Survey, or Annual Demographic Supplement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286551
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The shift to remote work lessens wage-growth pressures
Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J.; … - 2022
The recent shift to remote work raised the amenity value of employment. As compensation adjusts to share the amenity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014278413
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Recent trends in household wealth in the United States: Rising debt and the middle-class squeeze - An update to 2007
Wolff, Edward N. - 2010
I find here that the early and mid-aughts (2001 to 2007) witnessed both exploding debt and a consequent 'middle-class squeeze.' Median wealth grew briskly in the late 1990s. It grew even faster in the aughts, while the inequality of net worth was up slightly. Indebtedness, which fell...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281726
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Recent trends in the earnings of new immigrants to the United States
Borjas, George J.; Friedberg, Rachel M. - 2009
This paper studies long-term trends in the labor market performance of immigrants in the United States, using the 1960-2000 PUMS and 1994-2009 CPS. While there was a continuous decline in the earnings of new immigrants 1960-1990, the trend reversed in the 1990s, with newcomers doing as well in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284045