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Job Loss in the Great Recession: Historial Perspective from the Displaced Workers Survey, 1984-2010
Farber, Henry S. - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 2011
which the labor market is now only slowly recovering. The unemployment rate remains stubbornly high and durations of … unemployment are unprecedentedly long. I use data from the Dis- placed Workers Survey (DWS) from 1984-2010 to investigate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011150146
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Do Extended Unemployment Benets Lengthen Unemployment Spells? Evidence from Recent Cycles in the U.S. Labor Market
Farber, Henry S.; Valletta, Robert G. - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 2013
In response to the Great Recession and sustained labor market downturn, the availability of unemployment insurance (UI … unemployment duration, comparing the experience with the prior extension of benets (up to 72 weeks) during the much milder downturn … 2000-2005 and 2007-2012, we estimate the eects of UI extensions on unemployment transitions and duration. We rely on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011150173
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Job Loss in the Great Recession: Historial Perspective from the Displaced Workers Survey, 1984-2010
Farber, Henry S. - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 2011
which the labor market is now only slowly recovering. The unemployment rate remains stubbornly high and durations of … unemployment are unprecedentedly long. I use data from the Dis- placed Workers Survey (DWS) from 1984-2010 to investigate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005558690
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Rational Choice and Voter Turnout: Evidence from Union Representation Elections
Farber, Henry S. - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 2009
It is a common observation that many individuals vote despite the fact that, in elections with even a moderate number of voters, the probability their vote will be pivotal is quite small. The theoretical solution of positing that individuals receive utility from the act of voting itself explains...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008472057
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Increasing Voter Turnout: Is Democracy Day the Answer?
Farber, Henry S. - Griswold Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department … - 2009
It has often been argued that voter turnout in the United States is too low, particularly compared with turnout in other industrialized democracies, and that a healthy democracy should have higher turnout. One proposal that has been considered by Congress to increase voter turnout is the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005000277
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Rational Choice and Voter Turnout: Evidence from Union Representation Elections
Farber, Henry S. - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 2009
It is a common observation that many individuals vote despite the fact that, in elections with even a moderate number of voters, the probability their vote will be pivotal is quite small. The theoretical solution of positing that individuals receive utility from the act of voting itself explains...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005738603
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Rational Choice and Voter Turnout: Evidence from Union Representation Elections
Farber, Henry S. - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 2009
It is a common observation that many individuals vote despite the fact that, in elections with even a moderate number of voters, the probability their vote will be pivotal is quite small. The theoretical solution of positing that individuals receive utility from the act of voting itself explains...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010720869
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Increasing Voter Turnout: Is Democracy Day the Answer?
Farber, Henry S. - Griswold Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department … - 2009
It has often been argued that voter turnout in the United States is too low, particularly compared with turnout in other industrialized democracies, and that a healthy democracy should have higher turnout. One proposal that has been considered by Congress to increase voter turnout is the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011149984
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Job Creation in the United States : Good Jobs or Bad?
Farber, Henry S. - 1998
Despite a record of sustained growth in employment in the United States, there is long-standing concern that the new jobs are of poor quality, implying that the quality of the stock of jobs in the economy is deteriorating. In fact, it is difficult to define a new job, much less identify such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014068922
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Do Extended Unemployment Benefits Lengthen Unemployment Spells? Evidence from Recent Cycles in the U.S. Labor Market
Farber, Henry S.; Valletta, Robert G. - 2013
In response to the Great Recession and sustained labor market downturn, the availability of unemployment insurance (UI … extensions across states to estimate the overall impact of these extensions on unemployment duration, comparing the experience … extensions on unemployment transitions and duration. We rely on individual variation in benefit availability based on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319546