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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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Tag Archives: Labor
Moving to Opportunity? Migratory Insurance over the Great Recession
From Danny Yagan: Over the Great Recession, the employment rate in some U.S. cities declined by more than twice the aggregate decline. To what extent did the ability to migrate insure workers against these idiosyncratic local shocks? I answer this … Continue reading
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Tagged Danny Yagan, Great Recession, Labor, Local Labor Markets, Migration, mobility, social insurance, Unemployment
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The Impact of Immigration on Wages, Internal Migration and Welfare
From Suphanit Piyapromdee: Over the past few decades, the number of immigrants entering the U.S. has increased substantially. The local impacts of immigration may differ from national impacts since some cities attract more immigrants. Even within a city, workers may be … Continue reading
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Tagged Immigration, Labor, Local Labor Markets, Migration, mobility, Suphanit Piyapromdee, Wages
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Macroeconomic Determinants of Retirement Timing
From Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Jae Song, and Dmitriy Stolyarov: We analyze lifetime earnings histories of white males during 1960-2010 and categorize the labor force status of every worker as either working full-time, partially retired or fully retired. We find that the fraction of … Continue reading
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Tagged Dmitriy Stolyarov, Jae Song, Labor, Retirement, Yuriy Gorodnichenko
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Who Benefits from Technological Change?
Given recent concern about technological change and how it is wrecking the middle class, I thought I’d share a simple illustration of what classical economic models* imply about the relationship between productivity growth and the returns to workers and capital owners. … Continue reading
Links for Today: Heckman on Head Start and Mian & Sufi SF Fed paper
1. Heckman on early childhood education 2. Mian and Sufi: Aggregate Demand and State-Level Employment
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Tagged Amir Sufi, Atif Mian, employment, Fiscal Policy, headstart, Jim Heckman, Labor, Spending, Uncertainty, Wages
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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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Do Dividend Tax Cuts Increase Investment and Hiring?
Abstract: Policymakers frequently propose to use capital tax reform to stimulate investment and increase labor earnings. This paper tests for such real impacts of the 2003 dividend tax cut – one of the largest reforms ever to a U.S. capital … Continue reading
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Tagged Danny Yagan, Investment, Jobs, Labor, Tax Reform, Taxes, Wages
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Hysteresis & the Unemployment Problem
Summers and Blanchard have a paper on Hysteresis in Europe in the 1980s in which they discuss three main potential causes of hysteresis, which is a very high dependence of current employment on past unemployment. The three causes are (1) physical … Continue reading
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Tagged Europe, Great Recession, Jobs, Labor, Labor Markets, larry summers, long term unemployed, Middle Class, Oliver Blanchard, Unions, Wages
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Policy Implications of the Rise of Robots
After the forum that I posted about yesterday, there was a Q&A with Larry Summers. I asked him about the policy implications of living in a world of “Doers” and whether that should change how we think about pro-capital vs … Continue reading
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Tagged Capital, inequality, Labor, larry summers, Middle Class, Noah Smith, Robots
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The Employment Effects of Credit Market Disruptions: Firm-level Evidence from the 2008-09 Financial Crisis
Gabe Chodorow-Reich, who is also a coauthor on one of the more compelling studies showing that the stimulus was effective at creating jobs, has a job market paper on the link between conditions on wall street and employment on main street. When … Continue reading
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Tagged Banking, Finance, Gabe Chodorow-Reich, Job Market Paper, Jobs, Labor
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