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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?
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- The Effect of Pension Income on Elderly Earnings: Evidence from Social Security and Full Population Data
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- Financial firms make large share of pass-through income
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Tag Archives: Middle Class
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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Tagged Capital, Capital Taxation, ineuqality, Middle Class, Taxes, Thomas Piketty, weath
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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
America risks becoming a Downton Abbey Economy
From Larry Summers: Inequality has emerged as a major issue in the US and beyond. A generation ago it could reasonably have been asserted that the overall growth rate of the economy was the main influence on the growth in … Continue reading
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Tagged Economic Growth, inequality, larry summers, Middle Class, Profits, Taxes
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Op-ed: Do Not Abolish the Corporate Tax
Here’s my op-ed in Wonkblog with Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato on cutting corporate taxes: “In recent decades, American workers have suffered one body blow after another.” Sowrites economist Laurence Kotlikoff, who has just the policy prescription to help those ailing workers: abolishing the corporate … Continue reading
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Tagged Capital Taxation, Corporate Taxes, inequality, Larry Kotlikoff, Middle Class
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The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: The Safety Net, Living Arrangements, and Poverty in the Great Recession
From Marianne Bitler and Hilary Hoynes: Much attention has been given to the large increase in safety net spending, particularly in Unemployment Insurance and Food Stamps, during the Great Recession. In this paper we examine the relationship between poverty, the social and … Continue reading
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Tagged Great Recession, Hilary Hoynes, Inqequality, Marianne Bitler, Middle Class, Poverty, Safety Net, SNAP, UI
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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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How Changing Government Spending Affects Inequality
Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato, a friend and co-author of mine, has an interesting brief on government spending, inequality, and policy design. He analyzes “how differential valuations for government services between rich and poor lead to important implications for the link between … Continue reading
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