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xv Abbreviations ACS: American Community Survey ASHE: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings BHPS: British Household Panel Survey BLS: Bureau of Labor Statistics BLS-CES: Bureau of Labor Statistics-Current Establishment Survey CPS: Current Population Survey CSE: Confederation of Swedish Enterprise CRSP: Center for Research in Security Prices EE: Enrolled and employed EITC: Earned Income Tax Credit ENE: Enrolled in school but not employed EOPP: Employment Opportunities Pilot Projects EPAS: Economically Active Population Survey EPI: Economic Policy Institute FAME: Financial Analysis Made Easy FSI: French Statistical Institute FTE: Full-time equivalent GPEU: Geographic Profile of Employment and Unemployment HLFS: Household Labour Force Survey IRSs: Impulse response functions IRG: Investment Research Group IRS: Internal Revenue Service IS: Income Survey LFPR: Labor Force Participation Rate LFS: Labour Force Survey MCL: Marginal cost of labor MPL: Marginal product of labor MSA: Metropolitan statistical area NAIRU: Nonaccelerating inflation rate of unemployment NEE: Not enrolled but employed NENE: Neither enrolled nor employed NES: New Earnings Survey (continued) Belman and Wolfson.indb xv Belman and Wolfson.indb xv 6/16/2014 12:04:17 PM 6/16/2014 12:04:17 PM xvi NLSY: National Longitudinal Survey of Youth NMW: National Minimum Wage NMWR: New minimum wage research OECD: Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development OLS: Ordinary least squares ORG: Outgoing Rotation Groups PCC: Partial correlation coefficients PCSE-PSAR: Panel-corrected standard errors, panel-specific AR1 autocorrelation structure REIS: Regional Economic Information System SIPP: Survey of Income and Program Participation SLID: Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics QCEW: Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages QE: Quasi experiment QP: Quadros de Pessoal QWI: Quarterly Workforce Indicators VARs: Vector autoregressions WERS: Workplace Employment Relations Survey Abbreviations (continued) Belman and Wolfson.indb xvi Belman and Wolfson.indb xvi 6/16/2014 12:04:19 PM 6/16/2014 12:04:19 PM ...

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