Great Recession Still Plagues Workers with Lower Lifetime Wages (IMAGE)

Princeton School of Public and International Affairs

Great Recession Still Plagues Workers with Lower Lifetime Wages

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For displaced workers in Washington state during the Great Recession, earnings dropped suddenly and had still not fully recovered five years later, according to a working paper by labor economists at Princeton University, Michigan State University and the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.

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Egan Jimenez, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs

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