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Child Care, COVID-19, and our Economic Future
Shrimali, Bina
(2020-09-29)
Child care is important for cultivating the future workforce, and it also ensures that working parents of today can participate in the economy, helping to achieve the Federal Reserve’s mandate for full employment. While child care in the U.S. is a piece of critical infrastructure, it is often invisible and undervalued. Straddling the lines between parenting, education, and small business, child care does not get the full attention and resources of any particular domain, and its contribution to the economy has been overlooked.Longstanding and widespread constraints in the child care sector ...
Community Development Research Brief
, Volume 2020
, Issue 05
, Pages 09
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Women Are Driving the Recent Recovery in Prime-Age Labor Force Participation
Tuzemen, Didem; Tran, Thao
(2019-12-18)
The labor force participation rate of prime-age individuals (age 25 to 54) in the United States declined dramatically during and after the Great Recession. While the rate remains below its pre-recession level, it has been increasing steadily since 2015. We examine how different demographic groups have contributed to this rebound and find that college-educated women have made the largest contribution to the recent recovery in the prime-age labor force participation rate.
Economic Bulletin
, Issue Dec 18, 2019
, Pages 4
COVID-19: Which Workers Face the Highest Unemployment Risk?
Gascon, Charles S.
(2020-03-24)
Some 46% of U.S. workers are employed in occupations at “high risk” of layoff due to COVID-19 measures. How much could it cost to offset their lost income?
On the Economy
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Understanding the Relationship between Real Wage Growth and Labor Market Conditions
Jordan, Andrew; Aaronson, Daniel
(2014-10)
The authors find that the share of the labor force that is medium-term unemployed (five to 26 weeks unemployed) and the share working part time (less than 35 hours per week) involuntarily are strongly correlated with real wage growth. Moreover, they estimate that average real wage growth would have been between one-half of a percentage point and a full percentage point higher in June 2014 if 2005?07 labor market conditions had been restored, indicating that the slack in the jobs market still weighs heavily on the real wage prospects of U.S. workers.
Chicago Fed Letter
, Issue Oct
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Post-Pandemic Activity Rebounds, but Many Remain Outside the Labor Force
Jefferson, Nathan
(2021-07-14)
Jobs are returning, but the pandemic has accelerated longtime trends by knocking millions of people out of the labor force.
Economic Synopses
, Issue 18
, Pages 1-2
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What Has Driven the Recent Increase in Retirements?
Nie, Jun; Yang, Shu-Kuei X.
(2021-08-11)
During the pandemic, the share of retirees in the U.S. population rose much faster than its normal pace. Typically, an increase in this share is driven by more people transitioning from employment to retirement. However, we show that the recent increase was instead driven by fewer people transitioning from retirement back into employment, likely due to pandemic-related health risks. More retirees may rejoin the workforce as these health risks fade, but the retirement share is unlikely to return to a normal level for some time.
Economic Bulletin
, Issue August 11, 2021
, Pages 4
Working Paper
Choices and Implications when Measuring the Local Supply of Prescription Opioids
Mezza, Alvaro; Cho, David; Montes, Joshua
(2022-11-22)
Despite the growth in the literature on the opioid crisis, questions remain on how to best measure the local supply of prescription opioids. We document that measures based on the number of prescriptions largely track hydrocodone, while measures based on morphine-equivalent amounts largely track oxycodone. This choice matters, given the well-documented link between oxycodone and the rise in use of illicit opioids such as heroin, plus the fact that oxycodone and hydrocodone (the two most common prescription opioids) are only weakly correlated. We recommend local measures of the supply of ...
Finance and Economics Discussion Series
, Paper 2022-078
Briefing
The Pandemic, Child Care and Women’s Labor Force Participation
Latham, Sierra; Athreya, Kartik B.
(2022-05)
The pandemic has changed how households work, spend and care for children. In this Economic Brief, we highlight economic research that examines the patterns seen in women's work experiences in particular. We look at both the pandemic and, more generally, how shocks to the economy affect women's work decisions. Throughout, we will try to connect what we observe to households' broader economic environments and will emphasize — in the case of the pandemic — the role of away-from-home child care.
Richmond Fed Economic Brief
, Volume 22
, Issue 16
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Prospects for the local economy and the importance of workforce development: remarks at Onondaga Community College, Syracuse, New York
Dudley, William
(2017-09-25)
Remarks at Onondaga Community College, Syracuse, New York.
Speech
, Paper 255
Briefing
The Pandemic's Impact on Unemployment and Labor Force Participation Trends
Hornstein, Andreas; Kudlyak, Marianna
(2022-04)
Following early 2020 responses to the pandemic, labor force participation declined dramatically and has remained below its 2019 level, whereas the unemployment rate recovered briskly. We estimate the trend of labor force participation and unemployment and find a substantial impact of the pandemic on estimates of trend. It turns out that levels of labor force participation and unemployment in 2021 were approaching their estimated trends. A return to 2019 levels would then represent a tight labor market, especially relative to long-run demographic trends that suggest further declines in the ...
Richmond Fed Economic Brief
, Volume 22
, Issue 12
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