Employment and self-employment in the wake of Hurricane Katrina
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Employment and self-employment in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
We use data from the monthly Current Population Survey to examine the short- and longer-term effects of Hurricane Katrina on the labor market outcomes of prime-age individuals in the most affected states--Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi--and for evacuees in any state. We focus on rates of labor force participation, employment, and unemployment, and we extend prior research by also ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Demography
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0070-3370,1533-7790
DOI: 10.1353/dem.0.0099