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important factor from the 1990s onwards. -- wage inequality ; polarization ; occupational tasks ; offshoring ; RIF-regressions …
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Based on data from a cross section of U.S. metro areas, we show that public employment correlates negatively with … business cycle volatility, hinting at a stabilizing effect of public employment, while public wages correlate weakly and … generate wage-reducing and stabilizing effects of public employment. Without this mechanism, a search and matching model cannot …
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marginally attached displaying behavior lying between unemployment and non-attachment. The three non-employment states are …
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This paper examines the impact of state merit-aid programs on the labor market attachment of high school-aged youths. The labor force participation rate of teenagers has fallen substantially in recent decades, coinciding with the introduction of merit-aid programs. These programs reduce the...
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. Although the U.S. case has been studied extensively, the importance of job finding and employment exit rates to unemployment …
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rate (LFPR) series of Australia, Canada and the USA. Therefore we allow for endogenously determined multiple structural … previous research the LFPRs of Australia, Canada and the USA are stationary implying that the informational value of the …
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inequality and employment. To this end, we use annual data for the US, UK and Sweden over the past forty years and estimate … contributions of the labour share to the trajectories of inequality and employment during specific time intervals in the post-1990 … years. We find that during the nineties the cost of a one percent increase in employment was in the range of 0 …
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vanished, (ii) the relative volatility of employment has risen, and (iii) the relative (and absolute) volatility of the real …
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This paper assesses whether a causal relationship exists between recent increases in female labor force participation and the increased prevalence of obesity amongst women. The expansions of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) in the 1980s and 1990s have been established by prior literature as...
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in the total, female and male labour force participation rates (LFPR) for Australia, Canada and the USA. We extend the …
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