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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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Tag Archives: firms
Firms and Labor Market Inequality: Evidence and Some Theory
From David Card, Ana Rute Cardoso, Joerg Heining, and Patrick Kline: We review the literature on firm-level drivers of labor market inequality. There is strong evidence from a variety of fields that standard measures of productivity – like output per worker … Continue reading
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Tagged David Card, firms, Firms and Inequality, inequality, Pat Kline
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The Rise of Domestic Outsourcing and the Evolution of the German Wage Structure
From Deborah Goldschmidt and Johannes Schmieder: The nature of the relationship between employers and employees has been changing over the last decades, with firms increasingly relying on contractors, temp agencies and franchises rather than hiring employees directly. We investigate the impact of … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Data, Deborah Goldschmidt, firms, firms and labor markets, inequality, Johannes Schmieder, outsourcing
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The Effect of Uncertainty on Investment: Evidence from Texas Oil Drilling
From Ryan Kellogg: This paper estimates the response of investment to changes in uncertainty using data on oil drilling in Texas and the expected volatility of the future price of oil. Using a dynamic model of firms’ investment problem, I find … Continue reading
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Tagged Energy, firms, Investment, oil, Ryan Kellogg, Uncertainty
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The Future of Capital Income Taxation
From Alan Auerbach: The case against capital income taxation is stronger now than when Pechman wrote [in 1900], given the difficulty of collecting capital income taxes in a world of financial innovation and capital mobility. […] The rising importance of financial … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Auerbach, Capital, Capital Mobility, Capital Taxation, Corporate Taxes, Corporations, Efficiency, Equity, Finance, firms, Taxes
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Washington just awarded the largest state tax subsidy in U.S. history
From the Washington Post: With the stroke of a pen, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) on Monday signed into law the largest corporate tax break any state has ever given to a single company. And it took just three days … Continue reading
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Tagged Business Location, Corporate Taxes, firms, Local Labor Markets, States, Taxes, Urban Economics
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Bargaining and the Gender Wage Gap: A Direct Assessment
From David Card, Ana Rute Cardoso, and Pat Kline: An influential recent literature argues that women are less likely to initiate bar- gaining with their employers and are (often) less effective negotiators than men. We use longitudinal wage data from Portugal, matched … Continue reading
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Tagged Ana Rute Cardoso, David Card, firms, Gender, inequality, Labor Markets, Pat Kline, Wages
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Worker Flows Over the Business Cycle: the Role of Firm Quality
Lisa Kahn and Erika McEntarfer have an interesting paper on worker flows, firm quality, and the business cycle. They define firm quality as average pay (and their findings are robust to using other sensible definitions). Here’s one of their key … Continue reading
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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