Research ArticleI. Longer-Term Impact of the Great Recession on Workers and Firms
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Weathering the Great Recession: Variation in Employment Responses, by Establishments and Countries
Erling Barth, James Davis, Richard Freeman, Sari Pekkala Kerr
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences April 2017, 3 (3) 50-69; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2017.3.3.03
Erling Barth
aResearch professor at the Institute for Social Research, Oslo; professor II at the Center for the Study of Equality and Social Organization at the Department of Economics, University of Oslo; and research economist at the National Bureau of Economic Research
James Davis
bEconomist and RDC administrator and team lead at the U.S. Census Bureau
Richard Freeman
cAscherman Professor of Economics at Harvard University and director of the Sloan Science Engineering Workforce Project at the National Bureau of Economic Research
Sari Pekkala Kerr
dSenior research scientist at Wellesley College

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Erling Barth, James Davis, Richard Freeman, Sari Pekkala Kerr
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences Apr 2017, 3 (3) 50-69; DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2017.3.3.03
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