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The Great Recession was not so great [PDF]

open access: yesLabour Economics, 2015
The Great Recession is characterized by a GDP-decline that was unprecedented in the past decades. This paper discusses the implications of the Great Recession analyzing labor market data from 20 OECD countries. Comparing the Great Recession with the 1980s recession it is concluded that there is a high cross-country correlation of the unemployment rates
CentER Submitter, Jan C. van Ours
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Reconstructing the Great Recession [PDF]

open access: yesReview, 2013
This article uses dynamic equilibrium input-output models to evaluate the contribution of the construction sector to the Great Recession and the expansion preceeding it. Through production interlinkages and demand complementarities, shifts in housing demand can propagate to other economic sectors and generate a large and sustained aggregate cycle.
Michele Boldrin   +3 more
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Rare Shocks, Great Recessions [PDF]

open access: yesFederal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Working Paper Series, 2012
SUMMARYWe estimate a DSGE (dynamic stochastic general equilibrium) model where rare large shocks can occur, by replacing the commonly used Gaussian assumption with a Student's t‐distribution. Results from the Smets and Wouters (American Economic Review 2007; 97: 586–606) model estimated on the usual set of macroeconomic time series over the 1964–2011 ...
Vasco Curdia   +2 more
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The Great American Recession and forgone healthcare: Do widened disparities between African-Americans and Whites remain? [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2017
During the Great Recession in America, African-Americans opted to forgo healthcare more than other racial/ethnic groups. It is not understood whether disparities in forgone care returned to pre-recession levels.
Jasmine L Travers   +3 more
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Labor Unions and the Great Recession

open access: yesRSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2017
This article examines the impact of the Great Recession on the U.S. labor movement. After reviewing the classic industrial relations literature on the relationship between unionization rates and business cycles, we analyze historical union density trends.
Ruth Milkman, Stephanie Luce
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The neoliberal policy paradigm and the great recession [PDF]

open access: yesPanoeconomicus, 2012
The paper examines the relationship between neoliberal policies and the Great Recession with a focus on the persistence of the policy paradigm in spite of overwhelming evidence of its role in creating the crisis.
Stein Howard
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Husbands’ job loss and wives’ labor force participation during economic downturns: are all recessions the same? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Earlier research showed an added-worker effect for wives when their husbands stopped working during the Great Recession (December 2007–June 2009) but not when husbands stopped working in recent years of prosperity (2004–2005).
Mattingly, Marybeth J., Smith, Kristin
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