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Unemployment and its measurement : implications from a survey of long-term unemployment in Baltimore City
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Is saving too low in the United States?
Many observers contend that the U.S. savings rate has declined in recent years and that it lags behind the savings rates of our trading partners. This article surveys different methods of measuring savings (and problems with these methods) and finds that U.S. saving may not be as low as is popularly believed.
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On labor market indicators
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Money, the monetary base, and nominal GNP
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Equalizing regional differences in wages : a study of wages and migration in the South and other regions
Is the South rebelling againthis time against one of the tenets of economic theory? Neoclassical economic theory predicts that wage differentials between regions will disappear with time as workers move from low-wage areas to high-wage areas. However, in the seventies people tended to migrate southward, even though the South is usually thought to be a low-wage region. In his essay. Equalizing Regional Differences in Wages: A Study of Wages and Migration in the South and Other Regions, William E. Cullison offers a simple resolution to this paradox. By adjusting for the cost of living and by ...
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Forecasts 1980 : a consensus for a recession
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Forecasts 1975
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Forecasts 1976 : recovery but no bicentennial boom
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An employment pressure index as an alternative measure of labor market conditions
Much attention has been devoted to the peculiar behavior of the unemployment rate from 1969 to 1973.
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The U.S. productivity slowdown: what the experts say
Measured U.S. productivity growth has slowed significantly since 1973; moreover, measured U.S. productivity continues to grow at a slower rate than that of our major trading partners. A number of potential explanations of the slowdown are currently being debated in the economics literature. These explanations are discussed in the article.