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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
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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: Local Labor Markets
Trade Reform and Regional Dynamics: Evidence From 25 Years of Brazilian Matched Employer-Employee Data
From Rafael Dix-Carneiro and Brian Kovak: We empirically study the dynamics of labor market adjustment following the Brazilian trade reform of the 1990s. We use variation in industry-specific tariff cuts interacted with initial regional industry mix to measure trade-induced local labor … Continue reading
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Tagged Brian Kovak, Local Labor Markets, Rafael Dix-Carneiro, Trade
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How big cities that restrict new housing harm the economy
Here’s an interesting article/interview with Enrico Moretti by Emily Badger.
Growth in Cities and Countries
From Chang-Tai Hsieh and Enrico Moretti: A large micro literature has documented the local forces leading to growth and decline of cities. This paper measures the consequences of these local forces on aggregate output and welfare. We use a Rosen-Roback model of … Continue reading
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Tagged Chang-Tai Hsieh, Economic Growth, Enrico Moretti, Growth, Housing, Housing Policy, Local Labor Markets, Misallocation
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Declining Migration within the US: The Role of the Labor Market
From Raven Molloy, Christopher Smith, Abigail Wozniak: Interstate migration has decreased steadily since the 1980s. We show that this trend is not primarily related to demographic and socioeconomic factors, but instead appears to be connected to a concurrent secular decline in … Continue reading
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Tagged Abigail Wozniak, Christopher Smith, Labor Mobility, Local Labor Markets, Migration, Raven Molloy
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Pass the Bucks: Investment Incentives as Political Credit-Claiming Devices: Evidence from a Survey Experiment
From Nathan Jensen, Edmund Malesky, Mariana Medina, Ugur Ozdemir: Both countries and subnational governments commonly engage in competition for mobile capital, offering generous incentives to attract investment. Existing research has suggested that these tax incentives have a limited ability to affect investment patterns and … Continue reading
Who benefits from state corporate tax cuts?
Here is a new VOXEU summary of my job market paper for their job market paper series: State and local governments have been increasing business location incentives and cutting corporate taxes to attract businesses to their jurisdictions. For instance, Jay Inslee, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Corporate Taxes, Incidence, Job Market Paper, Local Labor Markets, Taxes
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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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Local Labor Markets
Here are David Card’s recent notes on local labor markets.
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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Average Property Tax as a Share of Home Value, 2007-2011
From TPC:
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Tagged Capital Taxation, Local Labor Markets, Property Taxes, Regional, Taxes
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