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COMMENTARY
As Richard B. Freeman and William M. Rodgers III document, the past four years has been the weakest recovery from a US recession in the past forty years -- employment creation in the 2001-2004 period has fallen short of ... -
Concepts of Unemployment and the Structure of Employment
Section 1 notes that a continuing reason for dissatisfaction with the economics literature on employment is its focus on the decision-making of workers, rather than that of firms, and its neglect of shifting structures of ... -
Demand or Supply for Schooling in Rural India?
Is the poor human capital investment by rural Indian families primarily a supply side or a demand side issue? We examine school attendance and total human capital investment time (time in school plus travel time plus in-home ...