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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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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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District Overview: \\"Leaving the Nest\\" Is Easier in Arkansas than Elsewhere in the District and Nation
In the District, about 40 percent of 25-year-olds were back living with their parents in 2013. That?s higher than in 1999. Both numbers were even higher for the country as a whole. The return to ?the nest? varies, depending perhaps on such things as the labor market, the housing market and student debt in each locale.
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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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Local housing crisis is similar to nation's
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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 ...
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Flows To and From Working Part Time for Economic Reasons and the Labor Market Aggregates During and After the 2007-09 Recession
Using counterfactual exercises for the transition probabilities between full-time employment, part-time employment for economic reasons (PTER), part-time employment for noneconomic reasons (PTNER), unemployment, and out-of-the-labor-force similar to Shimer (2012), we find that, ceteris paribus, changes in the transition probabilities to and from PTER in the aftermath of the 2007-09 recession were mainly associated with changes in the composition of employment (full- versus part time, and PTER versus PTNER) instead of with changes in the distribution of individuals between employment and ...
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District Overview: Track Records for District, Nation Differ on Startups, Which Are an Important Driver of Job Growth
While the Eighth District?s track record on business startups is less impressive than that of the nation since 2006, the District performed better than the nation over the same time period in regard to business shutdowns.
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Reversal of Gender Gaps in Child Development: Evidence from Young Children in India
This paper provides unique evidence of a reversal of gender gaps in cognitive development in early childhood. We find steep caste and gender gradients and few substantive changes once children enter school. The gender gap, however, reverses its sign for the upper caste, with girls performing better than boys at age 5 but thereafter following the general pattern in India of boys performing better.