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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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- A Modern Corporate Tax
- 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
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- RT @ezraklein: Have U.S. states figured out a way to avoid a global race to the bottom on taxes? wapo.st/13NOeLr 1 day ago
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Tag Archives: Labor Markets
Are Behavioral Responses to Welfare Programs Bigger than We Think?
Pat Kline and Melissa Tartari have an innovative working paper that is a bit technical, but quite interesting. They formally identify the magnitude of intensive and extensive margin adjustments to the a welfare program called Jobs First. Here’s the Abstract: We study the … Continue reading
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Tagged Government Spending, Pat Kline, Labor Markets, Melissa Tartari, Welfare Reform, Distortions
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Untangling Trade and Technology: Evidence from Local Labor Markets
A new paper from David Autor, David Dorn and Gorfon Hanson. ABSTRACT: We juxtapose the effects of trade and technology on employment in U.S. local labor markets between 1990 and 2007. Labor markets whose initial industry composition exposes them to rising … Continue reading
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Tagged David Dorn, From David Autor, Gordon Hanson, inequality, Labor Markets, Local Labor Markets, technology, Trade, Wages
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The Labor Market Is Not Zero Sum: EPI, Immigration, & Labor Market Misconceptions
Ross Eisenbrey had an NYT op-ed this week on immigration in which he said: “Bringing over more — there are already 500,000 workers on H-1B visas — would obviously darken job prospects for America’s struggling young scientists and engineers. But it … Continue reading
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Tagged Giovanni Peri, High-Skilled Immigration, Immigration, Labor Markets, Productivity, Ross Eisenbrey, 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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