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Inaccurate age and sex data in the census PUMS files : evidence and implications

Alexander, J. Trent; Davern, Michael E.; Stevenson, Betsey - 2010

avoidance ; aging ; data ; sex ; labor force participation ; marriage …% from counts in published data tables. Moreover, an analysis of labor force participation and marriage rates suggests the …-2006 American Community Survey, and the 2004-2009 Current Population Survey. For women and men ages 65 and older, age- and sex …

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Self-Perception of Disability and Prospects for Employment Among U.S. Veterans

Griffin, Christopher L.; Stein, Michael Ashley - 2015

veterans from seeking the benefits owed, including specialized employment training programs. We use data from the Current …

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Determinants of pharmaceutical innovation: The role of technological opportunities revisited

Rake, Bastian - 2012

Recent empirical contributions emphasize the importance of (potential) market size for the development of new pharmaceuticals. At the same time many scholars point out the importance of of scientific advances for the industry's R&D activities. Against this background I analyze the relationship...

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Determinants of pharmaceutical innovation : the role of technological opportunities revisited

Rake, Bastian - 2012

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Families in macroeconomics

Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michele - 2016

Much of macroeconomics is concerned with the allocation of physical capital, human capital, and labor over time and across people. The decisions on savings, education, and labor supply that generate these variables are made within families. Yet the family (and decision-making in families) is...

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United States Economic Expansion and Social Policy During the 1990's : Implications for Poor Americans

McFayden, Elgie - 2013

This paper examines the impact of policies and programs implemented by the United States federal government during the 1990's on poor Americans. The primary objective of this review is to determine how poverty reduction policies and programs, along with the significant economic expansion of the...

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The Great Resignation of US labor force

Bayraktar, Murat - 2022

Since the spring of 2021, over 33 million Americans have departed their employment, according to the popular slogan. The majority of Americans who left their employment appear to be doing so to acquire better jobs. The highest percentage of leaving is among low-wage workers in the leisure and...

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Did the COVID-19 Recession Increase the Demand for Digital Occupations in the United States? Evidence from Employment and Vacancies Data

Soh, Jiaming; Oikonomou, Myrto; Pizzinelli, Carlo; … - 2022

This paper investigates whether the COVID-19 recession led to an increase in demand for digital occupations in the United States. Using O*NET to capture the digital content of occupations, we find that regions that were hit harder by the COVID-19 recession experienced a larger increase in the...

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The influence of the business cycle on mortality

Reichmuth, Wolfgang H.; Sarferaz, Samad - 2008

conditions and mortality are investigated with data since 1933. …

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Misclassification errors and the underestimation of US unemployment rates

Feng, Shuaizhang; Hu, Yingyao - 2010

Using recent results in the measurement error literature, we show that the official U.S. unemployment rates substantially underestimate the true levels of unemployment, due to misclassification errors in labor force status in Current Population Surveys. Our closed-form identification of the...

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