The Great Recession and Its Aftermath: What Role for Structural Changes?

Jesse Rothstein

doi:10.7758/RSF.2017.3.3.02

Article Information

vol. 3 no. 3 22-49

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2017.3.3.02

Published By

RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

Print ISSN

2377-8253

Online ISSN

2377-8261

History

Published online April 1, 2017.

© 2017 Russell Sage Foundation. Rothstein, Jesse. 2017. “The Great Recession and Its Aftermath: What Role for Structural Changes?” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 3(3): 22–49. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2017.3.3.02. This paper extends and expands on the results in Rothstein (2012; 2014). I thank Darian Woods, Peter Jones, and Audrey Tiew for excellent research assistance, and participants in the Russell Sage conference “The U.S. Labor Market During and After the Great Recession” for helpful comments. I am grateful to the Smith-Richardson and Russell Sage foundations for financial support. Copies of the data and computer programs used to generate the results presented in this article are available from the author. Direct correspondence to: Jesse Rothstein at rothstein@berkeley.edu, 2521 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA 94720. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Author Information

Jesse Rothstein^a

^aProfessor of public policy and economics and director of the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment at the University of California, Berkeley, and is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research