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The Lost Generation?

Labor Market Outcomes for Post-Great Recession Entrants

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Journal of Human Resources, September 2023, 58 (5) 1452-1479; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.58.5.0920-11206R1
Jesse Rothstein
Jesse Rothstein is Carmel P. Friesen Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley ().
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vol. 58 no. 5 1452-1479
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.58.5.0920-11206R1
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University of Wisconsin Press
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0022-166X
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1548-8004
History 
  • Received September 1, 2020
  • Accepted May 1, 2021
  • Published online September 18, 2023.

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  1. Jesse Rothstein is Carmel P. Friesen Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley (rothstein{at}berkeley.edu).
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    • ABSTRACT
    • I. Introduction
    • II. Data
    • III. The Great Recession in the Labor Market
    • IV. Cohort Effects on Employment and Wages
    • V. Medium-Term Scarring and Other Age-Specific Effects
    • VI. Cyclicality and Cohort Effects
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