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I'm an Economics Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley focusing on public finance topics at the intersection of labor economics and macroeconomics. You can follow me on twitter @omzidar.
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- Valuing The Vote: Evidence from the Voting Rights Act of 1965
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- Do Higher Corporate Taxes Reduce Wages? Micro Evidence from Germany
- Local Economic Development, Agglomeration Economies and the Big Push: 100 Years of Evidence from the Tennessee Valley Authority
- It Takes a Regime Shift: Recent Developments in Japan through the Lens of the Great Depression
- The Miracle of Microfinance? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation
- Worker Flows Over the Business Cycle: the Role of Firm Quality
- Does Entrepreneurship Pay? The Michael Bloombergs, the Hot Dog Vendors, and the Returns to Self-Employment
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Tag Archives: david autor
Skill-Biased Technological Change and Rising Wage Inequality: Some Problems and Puzzles
Dylan Matthews has a nice post on the inequality & skill biased technical change debate between David Autor, who is one of my favorite labor economists, and some folks at EPI. I wanted to highlight this paper by David Card … Continue reading
Firms & Rising Inequality
Some of the most prominent theories of rising wage inequality emphasize changes in the supply of highly-educated workers, skill-biased technical change, changing labor market institutions, as well as variation in wages across occupations, industries, and geography. David Card has highlighted some … Continue reading
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Tagged david autor, David Card, firms, inequality, Jobs, Labor, Middle Class, Pat Kline, Wages
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What economic problem keeps Larry Summers up at night?
What about the economy now keeps you in cold sweats at night? I worry for the medium and long term about where the jobs are going to come from for those with fewer skills. One in five men between 25 … Continue reading
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Tagged david autor, Globalization, inequality, Jobs, Labor, larry summers, Middle Class, NYTimes, Technological Change
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What happens when a city ends rent control?
An interesting new paper from Autor, Palmer and Pathak of MIT Abstract: Understanding potential spillovers from the attributes and actions of neighborhood residents onto the value of surrounding properties and neighborhoods is central to both the theory of urban economics and … Continue reading
