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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?
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- 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
- Zip-code Economics
- Financial firms make large share of pass-through income
- Pass-through income and the top 1%
- Quantitative Spatial Economics
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Tag Archives: inequality
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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Human Capital Investment, Inequality and Economic Growth
From Murphy and Topel: We treat rising inequality is an equilibrium outcome in which human capital investment fails to keep pace with rising demand for skills. Investment affects skill supply and prices on three margins: the type of human capital … Continue reading
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Tagged Bob Topel, inequality, kevin murphy, labor market, Middle Class, Wages
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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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Pareto and Piketty: The Macroeconomics of Top Income and Wealth Inequality
From Chad Jones: Since the early 2000s, research by Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez, and their coathors has revolutionized our understanding of income and wealth inequality. In this paper, I highlight some of the key empirical facts from this research and … Continue reading
Declining Savings Among the Bottom 90%
From Saez and Zucman (2014)
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Tagged Capital, Emmanuel Saez, Gabriel Zucman, inequality, Savings
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Wealth Inequality in the United States since 1913: Evidence from Capitalized Income Tax Data
From Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman: This paper combines income tax returns with Flow of Funds data to estimate the distribution of household wealth in the United States since 1913. We estimate wealth by capitalizing the incomes reported by individual … Continue reading
The Macroeconomics of Piketty
From Chad Jones: Since the early 2000s, research by Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez, and their coathors has revolutionized our understanding of income and wealth in- equality. In this paper, I highlight some of the key empirical facts from this re- … Continue reading
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Tagged Chad Jones, Emmanuel Saez, inequality, Thomas Piketty
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Tax Evasion on Offshore Profits and Wealth
From Gabriel Zucman: This article attempts to estimate the magnitude of corporate tax avoidance and personal tax evasion through offshore tax havens. In the United States, corporations book 20% of their profits in tax havens – a tenfold increase since … Continue reading
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Tagged Evasion, Gabriel Zucman, high income earners, inequality, Profits, Tax Evasion, Taxation, Wealth
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