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• Public Policy Brief No. 33 August 06, 1997

  Is There a Trade-Off between Unemployment and Inequality?

  Rebecca M. Blank
  Abstract

  Rebecca M. Blank considers how the flexibility of American labor markets and the regulation and redistribution policies of European labor markets may determine employers’ responses to worldwide economic transformations that result in increasing wage disparity in the United States and continuing high unemployment in Europe. She suggests that since the transformations will undoubtedly continue, governments […]

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• Working Paper No. 188 April 01, 1997

  No Easy Answers

  Rebecca M. Blank
  Abstract

  High unemployment rates and increasing terms of unemployment have persisted in western European countries for the past 20 years. These problems have been explained as resulting from inflexibility in the labor market created by such policies as protective labor market regulation and generous social assistance. The lower rates and shorter duration of unemployment in the […]

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• Working Paper No. 57 July 05, 1991

  Why Were Poverty Rates So High in the 1980s?

  Rebecca M. Blank
  Abstract

  This paper explores the unexpectedly slow decline in poverty that occurred over the expansion of the 1980s. We present evidence on the "stickiness" in the poverty rate in the past decade, compared to earlier decades. The following section investigates several potential non-earnings-related explanations for this fact. There is little evidence that the slowdown in the […]

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