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Short hours, long hours: Hour levels and trends in the retail industry in the United States, Canada, and Mexico

Carré, Françoise; Tilly, Chris - 2012

In settings where most workers have full-time schedules, hourly wages are appropriate primary indicators of job quality and worker outcomes. However, in sectors where full-time schedules do not dominate - primarily service-producing activities - total hours matter, in addition to hourly wages,...

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The United States-Euro area growth gap puzzle

Breuss, Fritz - 2017

Ten years ago, the global financial crisis started to unwind in the USA and triggered the greatest recession since World War II. Although the crisis of 2007-08 was caused in the USA, their economy was not hit so hard in the Great Recession of 2009 as in Europe, and in particular in the Euro...

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Do Enclaves Matter in Immigrant Adjustment?

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2002

effect of concentrations on the immigrant?s language skills, as well as the effects on immigrant earnings of destination … language skills. Moreover, immigrant?s earnings are lower the lower their English-language proficiency and the greater the … linguistic concentration in their origin language of the area in which they live. The adverse effects on earnings of poor …

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Rising earnings inequality in Sweden: The role of composition and prices

Domeij, David - 2006

This paper decomposes the rise in cross-sectional earnings inequality in Sweden between 1990 and 2002 into changes in … industries, and changes in unobservables, and compares the Swedish experience with that in the U.S. The rise in earnings …

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State and Local Sales Taxes and Business Activity in the United States

Saxon, Nicholas; Tosun, Mehmet S.; Yang, Jingjing - 2015

There has been an increasing reliance on sales taxation in both the states and counties in the United States. In this paper, we are examining the relationship between state and local sales taxation and business activity in the U.S. by utilizing county-level data for the period 2002-2011. We have...

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The Labour Market and the Job Miracle

Heckman, James J.; Agell, Jonas; Gertser, Florian; … - In: CESifo Forum 04 (2003) 2, pp. 29-48

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The European Labour Markets - Differences in Labour Markets Across the Atlantic

Puhani, Patrick - In: CESifo Forum 05 (2004) 1, pp. 12-18

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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 other recessions, except in size. The recovery, however, has been unusual not so much for its sluggishness but for the unusual pattern of recovery in employment by race. The black...

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The fertility of the Irish in the United States in 1910

Guinnane, Timothy W.; Moehling, Carolyn M.; Ó Gráda, … - 2004

In most western societies, marital fertility began to decline in the nineteenth century. But in Ireland, fertility in marriage remained stubbornly high into the twentieth century. Explanations of this focus on the influence of the Roman Catholic Church in Irish society. These arguments are often...

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Immigrant Fertility in the Midst of Intensified Enforcement

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Arenas-Arroy, Esther - 2017

This paper exploits the temporal and geographic variation in the implementation of local and state immigration enforcement measures to identify their impact on undocumented immigrants’ fertility. Using data from the 2005 through 2014 American Community Survey, we find that a one standard...

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