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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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- The Top 1 Percent in International and Historical Perspective
- The Transitional Costs of Sectoral Reallocation: Evidence From the Clean Air Act and the Workforce
- Top economists on whether we should tax capital income less than labor income
- Corporate Tax Reform: Is broadening the base and lowering the rate always a good idea?
- Apple, Avoidance, and Corporate Tax Incidence
- Valuing The Vote: Evidence from the Voting Rights Act of 1965
- Great Questions from Paul Krugman
- Do Higher Corporate Taxes Reduce Wages? Micro Evidence from Germany
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Tag Archives: Jobs
Tax Cuts for Whom? Do tax changes for high income taxpayers generate more growth than similarly sized tax changes for lower income taxpayers?
This figure, which is from a recently revised and submitted paper of mine, shows how the multiplier varies across the income distribution. It shows that equivalently sized tax changes for lower income groups have larger macroeconomic impacts on … Continue reading
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Tagged Employment Growth, Fiscal Policy, Great Recession, inequality, Jobs, Middle Class, Redistribution, Stimulus, Tax Cuts, Tax Cuts for Whom, Taxes
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A Painfully Slow Recovery for America’s Workers: Causes, Implications, and the Federal Reserve’s Response
A new speech from Janet Yellen is worth reading. Here are some figures from the speech on the slow response relative to other recessions and the contribution of fiscal support (or lack thereof) for this recession. Premature fiscal contraction is … Continue reading
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Tagged Deficit, Fiscal Policy, Great Recession, Janet Yellen, Jobs, Recovery, Spending
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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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4 Ways Persistently High Unemployment Could Ossify – the Human Capital Channel
Brad Plumer has a post today on rough projections that we will not reach full employment until 2022. Here are four ways that failing to address the unemployment problem today could lead to long-lasting (and potentially permanent) reductions in human capital, employment, and social … Continue reading
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Tagged Blanchard, Brad Plumer, Great Recession, Human Capital, hysteresis, inequality, Jobs, labor market, long term unemployed, Summers, Unemployment
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Do Dividend Tax Cuts Increase Investment and Hiring?
Abstract: Policymakers frequently propose to use capital tax reform to stimulate investment and increase labor earnings. This paper tests for such real impacts of the 2003 dividend tax cut – one of the largest reforms ever to a U.S. capital … Continue reading
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Tagged Danny Yagan, Investment, Jobs, Labor, Tax Reform, Taxes, Wages
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Hysteresis & the Unemployment Problem
Summers and Blanchard have a paper on Hysteresis in Europe in the 1980s in which they discuss three main potential causes of hysteresis, which is a very high dependence of current employment on past unemployment. The three causes are (1) physical … Continue reading
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Tagged Europe, Great Recession, Jobs, Labor, Labor Markets, larry summers, long term unemployed, Middle Class, Oliver Blanchard, Unions, Wages
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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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How Long Will it Take to Get to 6.5 Percent Unemployment?
Not soon according to the Hamilton Project:
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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The Pace of the Recovery: Output and Employment Growth Since 1985
Laura Tyson has a piece today on the slow pace of the recovery: Since 2010, annual growth of gross domestic product has averaged about 2.1 percent. This is less than half the average pace of recoveries from previous recessions in … Continue reading
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Tagged Fiscal Cliff, Growth, jobless recovery, Jobs, Laura Tyson, Stimulus
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