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We use a resume audit study to better understand the role of employment and unemployment histories in affecting … findings solidify an emerging consensus on the role of age and employment on callback. First, among applicants across a broad …
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The goal of this paper is to ascertain whether older women's current and anticipated future labor force patterns have changed over time, and if so, to evaluate the factors associated with longer work lives and plans to continue work at older ages. Using data from both the Health and Retirement...
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-recession levels. The employment consequences of job loss are also very serious during this period with very low rates of reemployment … and difficulty finding full-time employment. The reduction in weekly earnings for those job losers during the 2007 …-2013 period who were able to find new employment are not unusually large by historical standards …
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overall. Displaced workers have a substantially reduced probability of employment and an increased probability of part …-time employment subsequent to job loss. The more educated have higher post-displacement employment rates and are more likely to be … employed full-time. The probabilities of employment and full-time employment among those reemployed subsequent to job loss …
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We examine financial literacy in the United States using the new National Financial Capability Study, wherein we demonstrate that financial literacy is particularly low among the young, women, and the less-educated. Moreover, Hispanics and African-Americans score the least well on financial...
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union representation. When combined with earlier data for 1977 from the Quality of Employment Survey and for 1984 from a …
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labor market outcomes, including the probability of employment, full-time/part-time status, the change in earnings, job … stability, and self-employment status. The adverse consequences of job loss, which have always been substantial, do not appear … displacement than do the less educated. Self-employment appears to be an important response to displacement, and older workers and …
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if, in fact, there has been a systematic change in the likelihood of long- term employment. In order to measure changes …
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The dramatic decline in unionization over the last decade is investigated in the context of a supply/demand model of union status determination. Data from surveys conducted in 1977 and 1984 are used to decompose the decline into components due to a drop in the demand for union representation and...
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primarily due to a reduction in exits from the labor force rather than to a decrease in exits to employment (the job finding …
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