This paper analyzes the magnitude and sources of long-term earnings declines associated
with graduating from college during a recession. Using a large longitudinal university-…

We use administrative data on the quarterly employment and earnings of Pennsylvanian
workers in the 1970s and 1980s matched to Social Security Administration death records …

We develop new evidence on the cumulative earnings losses associated with job displacement,
drawing on longitudinal Social Security records for US workers from 1974 to 2008. In …

We use a massive, matched employer-employee database for the United States to analyze
the contribution of firms to the rise in earnings inequality from 1978 to 2013. We find that one-…

The Great Recession has renewed interest in unemployment insurance (UI) programs
around the world. At the same time, there have been important advances in both theory and …

This paper studies the differential persistent effects of initial economic conditions for labor
market entrants in the United States from 1976 to 2015 by education, gender, and race using …

We estimate the impact of compulsory schooling on earnings using changes in compulsory
schooling laws in West Germany after World War II. Most estimates in the literature indicate …

Unlucky young workers entering the labor market in recessions suffer a range of medium-to
long-term consequences. This paper summarizes the findings of the growing empirical …

We examine administrative data on young German workers and their employers to study the
long-term effects of an early career job loss. To account for nonrandom sorting of workers …

This paper analyzes the magnitude and sources of long-term earnings declines associated
with graduating from college during a recession. Using a large longitudinal …