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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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- 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
- Pass-through income and the top 1%
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Tag Archives: labor market
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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Inequality and Technological Change: The Skill Complementarity of Broadband Internet
A very interesting paper from Anders Akerman, Ingvil Gaarder, Magne Mogstad: Does adoption of broadband internet in firms enhance labor productivity and increase wages? And is this technological change skill biased or factor neutral? We exploit rich Norwegian data with firm-level information on … Continue reading
Who Benefits from the EITC?
Given the discussion on minimum wages and other low-income programs, I thought I’d highlight a study by Jesse Rothstein that roughly argues that the EITC encourages more people to work, which bids wages down for low income workers and enables … Continue reading
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Tagged Incidence, inequality, Jesse Rothstein, labor market, Minimum Wage, Raj Chetty, Tax Incidence, Taxes, 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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The Determinants and Welfare Implications of US Workers’ Diverging Location Choices by Skill: 1980-2000
From Rebecca Diamond: ABSTRACT: From 1980 to 2000, the substantial rise in the U.S. college-high school graduate wage gap coincided with an increase in geographic sorting as college graduates increasingly concentrated in high wage, high rent metropolitan areas, relative to lower … Continue reading
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Tagged income inequality, Job Market Paper, Labor, labor market, Local Labor Markets, Middle Class, Rebecca Diamond, Wages
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Number of Unemployed Per Job Opening
The Hamilton Project has a great report titled “The Importance of Unemployment Insurance for American Families & the Economy.” Here’s one of the key graphs:
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Tagged Demand, Hamilton Project, inequality, Jobs, labor market, Middle Class, Unemployment, unemployment insurance
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