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Classifying Worker Types in the U.S. Labor Market
Why some worker types have difficulty finding stable jobs can’t easily be explained by demographic characteristics.
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Worker Types, Job Displacement, and Duration Dependence
The composition of the workforce has implications for the earnings consequences of a job loss and patterns in the job-finding rate.
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Neighborhood Types and Demographics
U.S. neighborhoods can be organized into five types, which have very different demographics and geographical locations.
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Neighborhood Types and Intergenerational Mobility
Neighborhoods that differ demographically also exhibit differences in how intergenerational mobility relates to job growth.
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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.
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Understanding the Generational Gaps in Homeownership
Student loan debt may contribute to the homeownership gap among generations.
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By the Generations: Location Patterns of Different Cohorts
Where have different generational cohorts in the US lived throughout their life cycles?
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Labor Force Composition during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Compared with the U.S. as a whole, the labor market in the Fed’s Eighth District experienced a slightly milder downturn from 2020 to 2021.
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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.
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Labor Force Exiters around Recessions: Who Are They?
This article identifies workers who experienced a job separation during the Great Recession or the pandemic recession and tracks their labor force status in the following year, using the Current Population Survey. Workers are classified as exiters if they leave the labor force shortly after their job loss and non-exiters if they do not. The pool of exiters is disproportionately female, less educated, and older. During the pandemic recession, there were even more older workers in the exiters pool, although they were less likely to report being retired compared with in the Great Recession. In ...