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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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Recent Posts
- 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
- 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: 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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