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Whom Do Employers Want? The Role of Recent Employment and Unemployment Status and Age

Farber, Henry S. - 2018

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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Older Women's Labor Market Attachment, Retirement Planning, and Household Debt

Lusardi, Annamaria - 2016

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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Railroads and the Rise of the Factory : Evidence for the United States, 1850-70

Atack, Jeremy - 2008

Over the course of the nineteenth century manufacturing in the United States shifted from artisan shop to factory production. At the same time United States experienced a quot;transportation revolutionquot;, a key component of which was the building of extensive railroad network. Using a newly...

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Ethnic Differences in Demographic Behavior in the United States : What Can We Learn from Vital Statistics About Inequality?

Haines, Michael R. - 2017

This paper looks at the fertility and mortality experience of racial and ethnic groups in the United States from the early 20th century to the present. The first part consist of a description and critique of the racial and ethnic categories used in the federal census and in the published vital...

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Job Loss in the Great Recession and its Aftermath : U.S. Evidence from the Displaced Workers Survey

Farber, Henry S. - 2015

-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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The Puzzle of the Antebellum Fertility Decline in the United States : New Evidence and Reconsideration

Haines, Michael R. - 2007

All nations that can be characterized as developed have undergone the demographic transition from high to low levels of fertility and mortality. Most presently developed nations began their fertility transitions in the late nineteenth or early twentieth centuries. The United States was an...

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Railroads and Local Economic Development : The United States in the 1850s

Haines, Michael R. - 2006

We use county and individual-level data from 1850 and 1860 to examine the economic impact of gaining access to a railroad. Previous studies have found that rail access was positively correlated with the value of agricultural land at a point in time, and have interpreted this correlation as...

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Job Loss in the United States, 1981-2001

Farber, Henry S. - 2022

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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Financial Literacy and Retirement Planning in the United States

Lusardi, Annamaria - 2011

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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The Urban Mortality Transition in the United States, 1800-1940

Haines, Michael R. - 2011

In the United States in the 19th and early 20th centuries, there was a substantial mortality 'penalty' to living in urban places. This circumstance was shared with other nations. By around 1940, this penalty had been largely eliminated, and it was healthier, in many cases, to reside in the city...

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