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Working Paper No. 107
Economic Inactivity of Young Adults
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Public Policy Brief No. 11
A Path to Good Jobs?
Robert M. Hutchens examines three paths by which a young person with limited academic credentials may avoid a life of unemployment and low wages: obtaining additional formal schooling, securing a job that provides secure employment at “good” wages, or acquiring a job that provides skills and thereby opens a door to good future jobs. He […]
Working Paper No. 106
The Role of Consistent Implementation of Policy
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Working Paper No. 105
The Collapse of Low-skill Male Earnings in the 1980s
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Working Paper No. 104
The Anatomy of Changing Male Earnings Inequality
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Working Paper No. 103
Business Tax Incentives and Investments
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Working Paper No. 102
Credibility of the Interwar Gold Standard, Uncertainty, and the Great Depression
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Book Series
Poverty and Prosperity in the USA in the Late Twentieth Century
The fact that levels of poverty and inequality showed an unprecedented rise in the 1980s in the United States despite a sustained expansion beginning in 1983 raises concerns about appropriate policy actions needed to offset these developments. The papers in this volume explore manifestations of this inequality, including unexpectedly high poverty rates, shrinkage of the […]
Public Policy Brief No. 10
Job-lock: An Impediment to Labor Mobility?
Recent survey results and anecdotal evidence appear to indicate that workers sometimes sacrifice job opportunities by remaining in their current position in order to retain health benefits. If “job-lock” is real, the nation pays an economic price in terms of a misallocation of workersamong productive opportunities, higher relocation and training costs for workers who have […]
Working Paper No. 101
Technological Change and the Demand for Skills in the 1980s
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Working Paper No. 100
Avoiding a Future of Unemployment and Low Wages
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Public Policy Brief No. 9
The Investment-Finance Link
The author of this brief offers evidence that policies aimed at stimulating private sector investment through interest rate reductions are, at best, misguided. He concludes that, while there may be benefits from policies aimed at increasing saving or lowering the budget deficit, a higher level of business investment is not one of them. Rather, because […]