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Do Big Cities Help College Graduates Find Better Jobs?
May 20th, 2013
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by Jaison R. Abel and Richard Deitz - Liberty Street Economics, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Although the unemployment rate of workers with a college degree has remained well below average since the Great Recession, there is growing concern that co… more »
How Are American Workers Dealing with the Payroll Tax Hike?
May 15th, 2013
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by Basit Zafar, Max Livingston, and Wilbert van der Klaauw - Liberty Street Economics, New York Federal Reserve
The payroll tax cut, which was in place during all of 2011 and 2012, reduced Social Security and Medicare taxes withheld from workers’ pay… more »
Why California Has Experienced Faster Economic Growth than Job Growth?
April 15th, 2013
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By David Neumark and Jennifer Muz - FRBSF Economic Letter
California job growth over the past two decades has been relatively anemic compared with gains in the rest of the country. Nevertheless, economic output has grown faster in California than in th… more »
Lessons from Online Job Search
April 8th, 2013
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By Marianna Kudlyak and Jessie Romero, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
While there is a large body of theoretical work about the job search process, there is relatively little empirical evidence about important aspects of workers’ search behavior. A n… more »
Is Job Polarization Holding Back the Labor Market?
March 27th, 2013
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by Stefania Albanesi, Victoria Gregory, Christina Patterson, and Ayşegül Şahin - Liberty Street Economics/NY Fed More than three years after the end of the Great Recession, the labor market still remains weak, with the unemployment rate at 7.… more »
