Employment hysteresis from the great recession

This paper uses US local areas as a laboratory to test for long-term impacts of the Great Recession. In administrative longitudinal data, I estimate that exposure to a 1 percentage point larger 2007–9 local unemployment shock reduced 2015 working-age employment rates by over 0.3 percentage points. R...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Yagan, D. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Chicago Press 2019
Subjects:
age
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