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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. My current research focus is on the interaction of corporate taxation, firm location decisions, and the location and scale of economic activity. You can follow me on twitter @omzidar.
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Tag Archives: David Card
The Economics of Immigration
Given the interest and policy relevance (as well as Miles Kimball’s immigration tweet day), I thought I’d write a post on the theory and empirics of the effects of immigration in the labor market. A simple starting point for thinking … Continue reading
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Tagged David Card, Giovanni Peri, Hamilton Project, Immigration, Jobs, Labor, Miles Kimball, Wages
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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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How Much Do Wages Go Up When Profit Increases by a Dollar?
Given the interest in the rise of robots, shrinking labor shares and the owners of capital, I thought I’d highlight a Van Reenen paper that David Card suggested we read on the link between firm profitability and wages. It looks at at … Continue reading
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Tagged David Card, Innovation, JOHN VAN REENEN, Middle Class, Paul Krugman, Profits, Robots, Wages
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The Medicare Eligibility Age: Impacts on Health Behavior and Outcomes
Since many people are talking about raising the medicare eligibility age (e.g. Maya MacGuineas vs. Aaron E. Carroll, Matt Yglesias, Jared Bernstein, etc), I thought I’d highlight an AER paper by David Card, Carlos Dobkin, and Nicole Maestas that uses Medicare eligibility rules (i.e. … Continue reading
