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3 publications found, searching for 'Barry Bluestone '

• Public Policy Brief No. 39
  May 01, 1998

  The Unmeasured Labor Force

  Barry Bluestone and Stephen Rose
  Abstract

  Is the current labor market as tight as official statistics would seem to indicate? If incumbent workers increase their hours of work, it is irrelevant to the unemployment rate, but…more

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• Working Paper No. 204
  August 01, 1997

  The Growth in Work Time and the Implications for Macro Policy

  Barry Bluestone and Stephen Rose
  Abstract

  In May 1997, the official unemployment rate was 4.8 percent—the lowest in 24 years. Not long ago, most economists would have considered such an unemployment record impossible to achieve without…more

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• Public Policy Brief No. 28
  November 10, 1996

  Making Work Pay

  Barry Bluestone and Teresa Ghilarducci
  Abstract

  Barry Bluestone of the University of Massachusetts and Teresa Ghilarducci of the University of Notre Dame show that although the poverty rate for elderly Americans has declined over the past…more

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