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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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- 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: Job Market Paper
What Would Happen If Charter School Availability Were Expanded Greatly? Part 2
Chris Walters, who I first mentioned in this post, gave his job market talk at Berkeley yesterday. Roughly speaking, his story is that although some of the lottery evidence in Boston suggests that some Charter Schools can substantially increase test scores, … Continue reading
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The Employment Effects of Credit Market Disruptions: Firm-level Evidence from the 2008-09 Financial Crisis
Gabe Chodorow-Reich, who is also a coauthor on one of the more compelling studies showing that the stimulus was effective at creating jobs, has a job market paper on the link between conditions on wall street and employment on main street. When … Continue reading
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Tagged Banking, Finance, Gabe Chodorow-Reich, Job Market Paper, Jobs, Labor
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The Determinants and Welfare Implications of US Workers’ Diverging Location Choices by Skill: 1980-2000
From Rebecca Diamond: ABSTRACT: From 1980 to 2000, the substantial rise in the U.S. college-high school graduate wage gap coincided with an increase in geographic sorting as college graduates increasingly concentrated in high wage, high rent metropolitan areas, relative to lower … Continue reading
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Tagged income inequality, Job Market Paper, Labor, labor market, Local Labor Markets, Middle Class, Rebecca Diamond, Wages
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Stimulus or Stymied? The Macroeconomics of Recessions
The transcript of the AEA session that Brad Delong moderated is worth reading. When asked how his thinking about macroeconomics had changed, Harald Uhlig mentioned this paper by Johannes Wieland, who is a friend of mine and one of the top job … Continue reading
When are the Effects of Fiscal Policy Uncertainty Large?
Benjamin Johannsen, a job market candidate from Northwestern, weighs in: ABSTRACT: I argue that fiscal policy uncertainty can have large and adverse effects when the monetary authority is constrained by the zero lower bound on nominal interest rates. Using a new-Keynesian … Continue reading
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