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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
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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
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Tag Archives: Local Labor Markets
Local Economic Development, Agglomeration Economies and the Big Push: 100 Years of Evidence from the Tennessee Valley Authority
Here’s an interesting paper from Pat Kline and Enrico Moretti on local economic development, agglomeration, and the Big Push. We study the long run effects of one of the most ambitious place based economic development policies in U.S. history: the … Continue reading
Is New York as Expensive as You Think?
Catherine Rampell has an interesting piece on this issue that is worth reading. It highlights research from Jessie Handbury, who makes three points in a recent paper: First, I find that there are large differences in how high- and low-income households … Continue reading
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Tagged Catherine Rampbell, cities, Economic Geography, Jessie Handbury, Local Labor Markets
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Unemployment benefits should encourage geographic mobility
An op-ed from Enrico Moretti: Americans have always been willing to move to look for better economic opportunities, and this willingness to relocate is a big factor in U.S. prosperity. Yet while everyone is free to move to look for … Continue reading
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Tagged Enrico Moretti, Local Labor Markets, mobility, Unemployment Benefits
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Manufacturing Decline, Housing Booms, and Non-Employment
Kerwin Kofi Charles, Erik Hurst, and Matt Notowidigdo argue that the housing boom masked a structural decline in manufacturing employment in a recent paper. They estimate that 40% of the increase in non-employment from 2000-2011 can be attributed to the … Continue reading
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Tagged and Matt Notowidigdo, Erik Hurst, Housing, Kerwin Kofi Charles, Local Labor Markets, Manufacturing
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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 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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Washington’s Definition of Middle Class
I saw this proposal in Lori Montgomery’s article on fiscal cliff talks yesterday: Fresh tax revenue, generated in part by raising rates on the wealthy, as Obama wants, and in part by limiting their deductions, as Republicans prefer. The top … Continue reading
When the techies come to town…
The NY Times recently put out an alarmist article about the inflow of tech workers from Twitter and other startups moving into the city. While some of the concerns it raised about maintaining a vibrant and diverse neighborhood are completely … Continue reading
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Tagged Enrico Moretti, Innovation, Jobs, Labor, Local Labor Markets, States, Tax Policy, Taxes
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