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of aggregate unemployment in postwar data. While this range may seem wide it is an indication that the importance of …
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of aggregate unemployment in postwar data. While this range may seem wide it is an indication that the importance of …
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unemployment. Significant asymmetries emerge. Lilien's dispersion index is significant only for relatively high levels of … unemployment and becomes insignificant for low levels suggesting that reallocation affects unemployment only when the latter is … high. More job reallocation is associated with higher unemployment. …
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The construction bust which accompanied the Great Recession, and the accompanying need to shift workers across sectors, have provoked a discussion about mismatch and the Beveridge Curve, alongside a discussion about firm-level dispersion. These discussions echo an ongoing discussion about the...
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This paper re-examines Lilien's sectoral shifts hypothesis for U.S. unemployment. We employ a monthly panel that spans … stationarity of unemployment. Within a framework that takes into account dynamics, parameter heterogeneity and cross …
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In 2007, Michigan began requiring all high school students to take the ACT college entrance exam. This natural experiment allows us to evaluate the performance of several parametric and semiparametric sample selection correction models. We apply each model to the censored, prepolicy test score...
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Measuring average differences in an outcome across racial or ethnic groups is a crucial first step for equity assessments, but researchers often lack access to data on individuals' races and ethnicities to calculate them. A common solution is to impute the missing race or ethnicity labels using...
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estimating racial differences in party registration. Finally, we apply the proposed methodology to estimate racial differences in … Service. Open-source software is available which implements the proposed methodology …
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employment income (-0.97%), as well as an increase of unemployment (2.11%). …
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