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"In finding a career, workers tend to make numerous job changes, with the majority of 'complex' changes (i.e. those involving changes of industry) occurring relatively early in their working lives. This pattern suggests that workers tend to experiment with different types of work before settling...
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working schedules. This simple model can generate unemployment, even if wages adjust instantaneously, firms are perfectly … to be unemployed because, on the one hand, firms do not find it optimal to hire low-skilled workers when labor hours must … alternative explanation for why unskilled workers are a primary source of structural unemployment"--Federal Reserve Bank of St …
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How do job losers use default -- a phenomenon 6x more prevalent than bankruptcy --as a type of “informal" unemployment … the policies, however, is a .2-.5% higher unemployment rate during recessions that persists throughout the recovery. …
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"Human capital-based theories of cities suggest that large, economically diverse urban agglomerations increase worker productivity by increasing the rate at which individuals acquire skills. One largely unexplored implication of this theory is that workers in big cities should see faster growth...
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This paper tests the ability of consumer sentiment to predict retail spending at the state level. The results here suggest that, although there is a significant relationship between sentiment measures and retail sales growth in several states, consumer sentiment exhibits only modest predictive...
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