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Why Are Women Leaving the Labor Force?
The female labor force participation (LFP) rate has dropped steadily since 2000, especially among single women. At the same time, the percentage of single women has grown as a share of the female population, a trend that has increased the impact of the single women's LFP rate on the aggregate women's LFP rate. An analysis of data from the Current Population Survey shows that a growing percentage of single women who are not in the labor force are going to school. Meanwhile, an increasing share of married women list retirement as the reason for no longer participating in the labor force.
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How Much Do Oil Prices Affect Employment?
Texas accounted for 37 percent of the decline in the U.S. job market in March.
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Youth Labor Force Participation Continues To Fall, but It Might Be for a Good Reason
Workforce participation has declined among those 16 to 24, but there may be good reasons for this. An analysis by age, gender and education looks at who is in school and who is not.
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Gender Pay Gap May Be Linked to Flexible and Irregular Hours
The gender pay gap persists, even within occupations and even though women?s educational attainments are surpassing men?s. Is it because women tend to choose jobs with hours that are more irregular than those taken by men?
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Understanding the Gender Earnings Gap: Hours Worked, Occupational Sorting, and Labor Market Experience
This article documents life-cycle gender differences in labor market outcomes using longitudinal data of a cohort of individuals from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979. As in other datasets, the gender earnings gap increases with age. We find that hours worked and labor market experience are the most substantial observable variables in explaining the gender pay gap. We also focus on patterns in occupational changes over the life cycle, as a large part of pay growth occurs when workers change jobs. We find that college-educated men, on average, move into occupations with higher ...
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The effects of Extending Unemployment Insurance Benefits
Longer benefits may reduce unemployed workers? job search efforts, decreasing their likelihood of becoming reemployed.
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College degrees: why aren't more people making the investment?
The benefits of a college diploma are many, including higher pay, lower unemployment, maybe even better health. Yet many high school graduates still do not pursue a college degree. This article examines several key reasons why more people aren?t making this investment in themselves.
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Wage dynamics and labor market transitions: a reassessment through total income and “usual” wages
We present a simple on-the-job search model in which workers can receive shocks to their employer-specific c productivity match. Because the firm-specific match can vary, wages may increase or decrease over time at each employer. Therefore, for some workers, job-to-job transitions are a way to escape job situations that worsened over time. The contribution of our paper relies on our novel approach to identifying the presence of the shock to the match specific productivity. The presence two independent measures of workers compensation in our dataset of is crucial for our identification ...