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During the recent recession in New England, the number of unincorporated self-employed individuals grew while all the other major classes of workers shrank. A shift into self-employment represents one part of a set of changes in the mix of workers and jobs that reflects the nature of the...
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. Within individual sectors of the economy, the losses and gains have been even greater, with many manufacturing industries … losing jobs almost nonstop while some non-manufacturing industries have expanded markedly. This article examines these … created in Massachusetts nonmanufacturing industries over the 1988-89 period lasted two or more years. One key fact emerging …
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In this paper we use indirect inference to estimate a joint model of earnings, employment, job changes, wage rates, and work hours over a career. Our model incorporates duration dependence in several variables, multiple sources of unobserved heterogeneity, job-specific error components in both...
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similar across firm size and age, likely reflecting the expansion of existing and the creation of new industries. We conclude …
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What accounts for the sharp increase in the number of hours worked by married women? Although the number of hours worked per person in the U.S. has changed very little over the past 60 years, the labor force has undergone some pronounced shifts over that same period. One prominent change is this...
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The New York-New Jersey region's hard-earned recovery in employment is being overshadowed by ongoing job losses in certain sectors and the prospect of moderating growth in the United States as a whole. Fortunately, several positive trends are bolstering the region's employment picture. Strength...
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