Search Results
Journal Article
Why Are Workers Staying Out of the U.S. Labor Force?
Shifts in retirement and people taking care of family or the home appear to be behind the drop in labor market participation.
Are Higher Child Care Wages Affecting the Labor Supply?
An analysis suggests that a rebound in labor force participation among women with a partner and child could have been stronger during the pandemic if not dampened by child care costs.
Journal Article
Neighborhood Types and Intergenerational Mobility
Neighborhoods that differ demographically also exhibit differences in how intergenerational mobility relates to job growth.
Journal Article
Neighborhood Types and Demographics
U.S. neighborhoods can be organized into five types, which have very different demographics and geographical locations.
Residential Segregation and the Black-White College Gap
Using an economic model, researchers find that racial wage disparities, the amenity externality and racial barriers to moving could help explain the Black-white gap in college attainment.
Journal Article
Pandemic Recession: L- or V-Shaped?
We develop and calibrate a search-theoretic model of the labor market in order to forecast the evolution of the aggregate US labor market during and after the coronavirus pandemic. The model is designed to capture the heterogeneity of the transitions of individual workers across states of unemployment and employment and across different employers. The model is designed also to capture the trade-offs in the choice between temporary and permanent layoffs. Under reasonable parametrizations of the model, the lockdown instituted to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus is shown to have ...
Labor Force Exits and COVID-19: Who Left, and Are They Coming Back?
Millions of workers are still unemployed or have dropped out of the labor force. What is the likelihood that these people will return to work in the coming year?
Examining Recent Patterns in Residential Building Permits
Where are America’s homes being built? This analysis looks at 2023 housing permits per capita in the country’s metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas.
Journal Article
Generational Gaps in Income and Homeownership
At age 30, non-college-educated Boomers were about twice as likely as non-college-educated Millennials to own homes.
Assets and Debt across Generations
This analysis examines the household wealth that baby boomers, Gen Xers and millennials each held at age 30, comparing these generations’ assets, debt and net worth.