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Tag Archives: Wages
Do Higher Corporate Taxes Reduce Wages? Micro Evidence from Germany
From Clemens Fuest, Andreas Peichl, and Sebastian Siegloch: Because of endogeneity problems very few studies have been able to identify the incidence of corporate taxes on wages. We circumvent these problems by using an 11-year panel of data on 11,441 German … Continue reading
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Tagged Andreas Peichl, Clemens Fuest, Corporate Taxes, Germany, Incidence, Sebastian Siegloch, Tax Incidence, Taxes, Wages
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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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Regional Variation in Health Insurance Premia, Wages, & Health Costs
While I’m certainly not the first to point these features out, it is astounding to look at how quickly health insurance premia have grown overtime, especially when you compare this growth to that of average wages, total Medicare spending per … Continue reading
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Tagged Healthcare, Healthcare Costs, Medicaid, Medicare, Regional Variation in Health Costs, Wages
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Technical Change and the Relative Demand for Skilled Labor: The United States in Historical Perspective
A new working paper from Larry Katz & Robert Margo This paper examines shifts over time in the relative demand for skilled labor in the United States. Although de-skilling in the conventional sense did occur overall in nineteenth century manufacturing, … Continue reading
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Tagged Hollowing Out, inequality, Larry Katz, Middle Class, Robert Margo, Skill Biased Technical Change, Wages
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Who Benefits from the EITC?
Given the discussion on minimum wages and other low-income programs, I thought I’d highlight a study by Jesse Rothstein that roughly argues that the EITC encourages more people to work, which bids wages down for low income workers and enables … Continue reading
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Tagged Incidence, inequality, Jesse Rothstein, labor market, Minimum Wage, Raj Chetty, Tax Incidence, Taxes, Wages
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Links for Today: Heckman on Head Start and Mian & Sufi SF Fed paper
1. Heckman on early childhood education 2. Mian and Sufi: Aggregate Demand and State-Level Employment
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Tagged Amir Sufi, Atif Mian, employment, Fiscal Policy, headstart, Jim Heckman, Labor, Spending, Uncertainty, 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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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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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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