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Who is harmed by and who benefits from worker reallocation? We investigate the earnings consequences of changing jobs and find a wide dispersion in outcomes. This dispersion is driven not by whether the worker was displaced, but by the duration of joblessness between job spells. Job movers who...
Do recessions speed up or impede productivity-enhancing reallocation? To investigate this question, we use U.S. linked employer-employee data to examine how worker flows contribute to productivity growth over the business cycle. We find that in expansions high-productivity firms grow faster...
December 28, 2020 - Article
Author(s) - John C. Haltiwanger, Mark J. Kutzbach, Giordano E. Palloni, Henry Pollakowski, Matthew Staiger & Daniel Weinberg
Children from large housing projects demolished in the Department of Housing and Urban Developments HOPE VI program were earning 14% more at age 26 than those in the control group. B etween 1996 and 2003, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) awarded nearly $400 million in grants to...
Author(s) - John C. Haltiwanger, Mark J. Kutzbach, Giordano E. Palloni, Henry Pollakowski, Matthew Staiger & Daniel Weinberg
We combine national administrative data on earnings and participation in subsidized housing to study how the demolition of 160 public housing projectsfunded by the HOPE VI programaffected the adult labor market outcomes for 18,500 children. Our empirical strategy compares children exposed to the...
During the 20th century there was a secular transformation within American families from a household dominated by the father to a more egalitarian one in which the wife and the children have been empowered. This transformation coincided with two major economic and demographic changes, namely the...
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