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become more intentional about incorporating race into their programmatic (as opposed to employment, investment, or other … practices to help advance those discussions. The approaches are as follows: race-neutral, race-aware, race-conscious, and race …
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productivity growth. This paper offers a quantitative study on the link between uncertainty and low productivity growth. Firstly … Recession. Secondly, to investigate the effect of uncertainty on productivity growth dynamics, I present a novel general … productivity growth when accounting for the empirical discrepancy between the realised and expected changes to the second-moment of …
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During the late 1930s, the Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC) created a series of maps designed to summarize spatial variation in the riskiness of mortgage lending in different neighborhoods. The HOLC maps, in conjunction with contemporaneous maps produced by the Federal Housing Agency (FHA),...
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Black Americans face higher cyclical unemployment risk than white Americans: job-finding rates during recessions are lower and the risk of becoming long-term unemployed is higher. Differences in unemployment risk across Black and white Americans imply that Black Americans optimally invest less...
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This paper explores, both theoretically and empirically, how firing costs affect worker productivity and turnover. We … worker to exert higher effort. The increased productivity, in turn, affects turnover, and the magnitude of this effect …
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The degree of uncertainty in a worker's productivity is affected by many factors, such as worker-employer matching …, technology, and macroeconomic conditions. Not surprisingly, uncertainty in labor productivity (ULP) varies across firms …
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process. Risk has collapsed into prior criminal history, and prior criminal history has become a proxy for race. This means …
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