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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. My current research focus is on the interaction of corporate taxation, firm location decisions, and the location and scale of economic activity. You can follow me on twitter @omzidar.
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- “Cash on Hand” and Consumption: Evidence from Mortgage Refinancing
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Tag Archives: Jobs
Unemployment Insurance and Disability Insurance in the Great Recession
From Andreas Mueller, Jesse Rotstein, and Till von Wachter: Disability Insurance (DI) applications are awards are countercyclical. One potential explanation is that unemployed individuals who exhaust their Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits use DI as a form of extended benefits. We exploit … Continue reading
Long-Term Unemployment and the Great Recession: The Role of Composition, Duration Dependence, and Non-Participation
From Kory Kroft, Fabian Lange, Larry Katz, and Matt Notowidigdo: We explore the extent to which composition, duration dependence, and non-participation can account for the sharp increase in long-term unemployment (LTU) during the Great Recession. We first show that compositional shifts in … Continue reading
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Tagged Aggregate Demand, Beveridge curve, Demand, Duration Dependence, employment to population ratio, Fabian Lange, Great Recession, inequality, Jobs, Kory Kroft, labor force participation, Labor Markets, Larry Katz, long term unemployed, Matching Models, Matt Notowidigdo, Middle Class, Non-Participation, Structural Unemployment, Unemployment
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Amerisclerosis? The Puzzle of Rising U.S. Unemployment Persistence
From Olivier Coibion, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Dmitri Koustas: The persistence of U.S. unemployment has risen with each of the last three recessions, raising the specter that future U.S. recessions might look more like the Eurosclerosis experience of the 1980s than traditional V-shaped … Continue reading
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Tagged Coibion, Dmitri Koustas, Jobs, Labor Markets, Middle Class, Unemployment, Yuriy Gorodnichenko
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State Incentives for Innovation, Star Scientists and Jobs: Evidence from Biotech
From Enrico Moretti and Dan Wilson: We evaluate the effects of state-provided financial incentives for biotech companies, which are part of a growing trend of placed-based policies designed to spur innovation clusters. We estimate that the adoption of subsidies for biotech … Continue reading
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Tagged Corporate Taxes, Dan Wilson, Enrico Moretti, Innovation, Jobs, Local Labor Markets, RD, Taxes
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Profits without Production
Paul Krugman has an interesting op-ed out today linking economic rents to the pace of the recovery. Since profits are high while borrowing costs are low, why aren’t we seeing a boom in business investment? And, no, investment isn’t depressed … Continue reading
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Tagged Economic Recovery, Economic Rents, Great Recession, inequality, Investment, Jobs, Middle Class, Monopoly rents, Paul Krugman
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Tax Cuts for Whom? Do tax changes for high income taxpayers generate more growth than similarly sized tax changes for lower income taxpayers?
This figure, which is from a recently revised and submitted paper of mine, shows how the multiplier varies across the income distribution. It shows that equivalently sized tax changes for lower income groups have larger macroeconomic impacts on … Continue reading
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Tagged Employment Growth, Fiscal Policy, Great Recession, inequality, Jobs, Middle Class, Redistribution, Stimulus, Tax Cuts, Tax Cuts for Whom, Taxes
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A Painfully Slow Recovery for America’s Workers: Causes, Implications, and the Federal Reserve’s Response
A new speech from Janet Yellen is worth reading. Here are some figures from the speech on the slow response relative to other recessions and the contribution of fiscal support (or lack thereof) for this recession. Premature fiscal contraction is … Continue reading
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Tagged Deficit, Fiscal Policy, Great Recession, Janet Yellen, Jobs, Recovery, Spending
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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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4 Ways Persistently High Unemployment Could Ossify – the Human Capital Channel
Brad Plumer has a post today on rough projections that we will not reach full employment until 2022. Here are four ways that failing to address the unemployment problem today could lead to long-lasting (and potentially permanent) reductions in human capital, employment, and social … Continue reading
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Tagged Blanchard, Brad Plumer, Great Recession, Human Capital, hysteresis, inequality, Jobs, labor market, long term unemployed, Summers, Unemployment
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