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zero to positive correlation with changes in native wages and native employment, in aggregate and by skill group. We …
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Employment and participation rates for US prime age women rose steadily during the second half of the 20th century. In … the last 30 years, however, those rates stagnated, even as employment and participation rates for women in other … barriers, such as limited investment in family policies, that may be holding back employment among American women today. The …
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few firms dominate hiring in the market. Using data from the leading employment website CareerBuilder.com, we calculate …
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In this paper we derive a structural measure for labor market density based on the Ellison and Glasear (1997) Index for industry concentration. This labor market density measure serves as a proxy for the number of workers that can reach a certain work area within a reasonal amount of traveling...
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We document a clear downward trend in labor market fluidity that is common across a variety of measures of worker and job turnover. This trend dates to at least the early 1980s if not somewhat earlier. Next we pull together evidence on a variety of hypotheses that might explain this downward...
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We document a clear downward trend in labor market fluidity that is common across a variety of measures of worker and job turnover. This trend dates to at least the early 1980s if not somewhat earlier. Next we pull together evidence on a variety of hypotheses that might explain this downward...
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wages to identify the effects of reducing or eliminating the tip credit on employment, hours, and earnings in the U ….S. restaurant industry. Using data from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages and the Current Population Survey, we find that … a reduction in the tip credit increases weekly earnings but reduces employment in the full services restaurant industry …
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across LFS histories: they are 25-30% among those currently out of the labor force (OLF) with recent employment, 10% among …
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Corporations cannot exist without workers, yet workers are not part of the formal or informal governance structures established by U.S. corporate law. Commentators and policymakers have bemoaned this state of affairs for decades, to little avail. Since the mid-2010s, however, a concept related...
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employment. All plausible alternative market definitions show that more than 33% of markets are highly concentrated, suggesting …
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