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The Lost Generation?

Labor Market Outcomes for Post-Great Recession Entrants

View ORCID ProfileJesse Rothstein
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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