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Over 20 percent of prison and jail inmates in the United States are currently awaiting trial, but little is known about the impact of pre-trial detention on defendants. This paper uses the detention tendencies of quasi-randomly assigned bail judges to estimate the causal effects of pre-trial...
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This paper accounts for the observed increase in unemployment duration relative to the unemployment rate in the U ….S. over the past thirty years, typified by the record low level of short-term unemployment. We show that part of the increase … remaining increase in unemployment duration relative to the unemployment rate is concentrated among women, whose unemployment …
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This paper investigates the relationship between macroeconomic conditions, alcohol use, and drinking problems using individual-level data from the 1987-1999 years of the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. We confirm the procyclical variation in overall drinking identified in previous...
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unemployment-inflation tradeoff since 1995 …
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Expanding on an approach suggested by Ashenfelter (1984), we extend the Phillips curve to an open economy and exploit panel data to estimate the textbook 'expectations augmented' Phillips curve with a market-based and observable measure of inflation expectations. We develop this measure using...
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A search-theoretic general equilibrium model of frictional unemployment is shown to be consistent with some of the key … regularities of unemployment over the business cycle. In the model the return to a job moves stochastically. Agents can choose … unemployment …
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This paper investigates the precision of conventional and unconventional estimates of the natural rate of unemployment … series for unemployment and inflation, including additional supply shift variables in the Phillips curve, using monthly or …
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Unemployment Insurance system to measure the effects of imperfect experience-rating on temporary layoffs and other types of … unemployment. We find a strong negative association between the degree of experience-rating and the rate of temporary layoff … unemployment, with the largest effect in recessionary years and the smallest effect in expansionary years. Increases in the degree …
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unemployment, called ranking. With the filling of vacancies unaffected by the selection rule, both equilibria have the same … aggregate dynamics, but different distributions of unemployment durations. With the threat point for the Nash bargained wage … being a worker with zero unemployment duration, the wage with ranking is much more sensitive to changes in the tightness of …
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the minimum wage on teenage unemployment, or its relative impact on black and white teenagers. The purpose of this paper … unemployment rates of teenagers, we explore several related issues: the relative importance of changing the level and coverage of …
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