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This paper studies the nature of business cycle variation in individual earnings risk using a dataset from the U.S. Social Security Administration, which contains (uncapped) earnings histories for millions of anonymous individuals. The base sample is a nationally representative panel containing...
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What is the nature of labor income risk facing households? We answer this question using detailed administrative data on household earnings from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. By analyzing total household labor earnings as well as each member's earnings, we offer several new findings. One,...
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longer employment and unemployment spells, they must contend with lower earnings than tenants upon reemployment. They also …
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This paper draws on household survey data from countries of all income levels to measure how average unemployment rates … vary with income per capita. We document that unemployment is increasing with GDP per capita. Furthermore, we show that … this fact is accounted for almost entirely by low-educated workers, whose unemployment rates are strongly increasing in GDP …
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unemployment rates. But scant, if any, evidence exists on gender gaps in economic outcomes such as income, expenditure, savings …
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This paper considers the role of language in labour earnings in South Africa over the period 1996 to 1998. Our pooled cross-section comprises of over 160,000 working age adults, and the analysis considers the decision to participate in the labour force, employment prospects and labour earnings....
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income, population, labour force, employment, unemployment, output and productivity. The second section looks at the common … professional occupations; growing wage inequality; and the downward trend in the non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment …. The third section examines divergent trends in the two labour markets, including the widening of the unemployment rate gap …
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unemployment. These results survive several robustness checks. The differing results concerning the roles of income and education …
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This paper draws on household survey data from countries of all income levels to measure how average unemployment rates … vary with income per capita. We document that unemployment is increasing with GDP per capita. Furthermore, we show that … this fact is accounted for almost entirely by low-educated workers, whose unemployment rates are strongly increasing in GDP …
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, unemployment, house prices, credit scores, debt, financial assets, expectations, foreclosures, and inequality on county … housing wealth, and fluctuations in unemployment are the most important determinants of consumption, significantly so in all …
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