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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?
- 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: Labor Share
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
Weekend Readings
1. Taxation and Saving – A Retrospective from Alan Auerbach 2. All men are created unequal – the economist on Piketty’s new book 3. Dealing with the Financial Crisis and the Recession from Brad Delong 4. The return of “patrimonial capitalism”: review of … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Auerbach, Brad Delong, Branko Milanovic, Capital, Capital Taxation, capitalism, Depressed Economy, Depression Economics, Economist, Financial Crisis, Great Recession, Growth, inequality, Labor Share, patrimonial capitalism, Taxation, Thomas Piketty, Tyler Cowen
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How to do a Job Market Spiel? Be Justin Wolfers
I was looking up a paper on declining labor shares to prepare for interviews and came across these 90 second paper pitches by Justin Wolfers and realized that they are great demonstrations of how to do a job market spiel (see here, here, … Continue reading
The Rise of Gross Operating Surplus in Manufacturing since 1960
Gross operating surplus, which is roughly value added less labor compensation, input costs, and production taxes, has increased substantially in the manufacturing sector since 1980. Gross operating surplus includes consumption of fixed capital (CFC), proprietors’ income, and corporate profits. Note that this measure is … Continue reading
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Tagged Capital Income, Corporate Profits, inequality, Labor Share, Manufacturing, Middle Class
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