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I'm an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a Faculty Research Fellow at National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in the Public economics group. You can follow me on twitter @omzidar.
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- Who were the top taxpayers in 1923?
- Trump won in counties that lost jobs to China and Mexico
- The Effect of Pension Income on Elderly Earnings: Evidence from Social Security and Full Population Data
- Why Retire When You Can Work? Hours are way up for elderly workers
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- Financial firms make large share of pass-through income
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Tag Archives: employment
Does Transparency Lead to Pay Compression?
From Alex Mas: This paper asks whether disclosing wages to the public changes wage setting at the top of the public sector income distribution. I evaluate a 2010 California mandate that required cities to submit municipal salaries to the State, … Continue reading
Immigrants and Native Workers: New Analysis Using Longitudinal Employer-Employee Data
From Mette Foged and Giovanni Peri: This paper makes progress on a long standing issue: what is the effect of unskilled immigrants on the labor market outcomes of similarly educated natives? Using the universe of individuals and firms in Denmark for the … Continue reading
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Tagged careers, complexity, employment, Giovanni Peri, Immigration, job transitions, Mette Foged, Wages
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The Dynamic Effects of Personal and Corporate Income Tax Changes in the United States
From Karel Mertens and Morten Ravn: This paper presents evidence on the aggregate effects of changes in federal tax policy in the United States in the post-WWII sample. Exogenous changes in taxes are identified in a vector autoregressive model by proxying latent … Continue reading
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Tagged Christy Romer, Corporate Tax, Corporate Taxation, David Romer, employment, Karel Mertens, Morten Ravn, Personal Taxes, Tax Cuts, Taxes
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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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Coveting Thy Neighbor’s Manufacturing – Is State Tax Competition A Zero Sum Game?
Many people have been focused on state tax incentives of late. Earlier I posted about some work by Moretti and Greenstone that concludes local subsidies improve residents’ welfare (perhaps partly due to sizable employment spillovers). With that in mind, I wanted … Continue reading
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