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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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Tag Archives: mobility
Where is the Land of Opportunity? The Geography of Intergenerational Mobility in the United States
From Raj Chetty, Nathan Hendren, Pat Kline, and Emmanuel Saez: We use administrative records on the incomes of more than 40 million children and their parents to describe three features of intergenerational mobility in the United States. First, we characterize … Continue reading
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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On Property Taxes in New York
From an interesting NYTimes article on different plans to tax those with high incomes in New York: The idea that nonresidents should pay little or no tax has long rested both on notions of fairness, since they’re not around much … Continue reading
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Tagged Daniel Shaviro, inequality, mobility, Property Taxes, Tale of Two Cities
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Migration and wage effects of taxing top earners: Evidence from the foreigners’ tax scheme in Denmark
from Henrik Kleven, Camille Landais, Emmanuel Saez, Esben Schultz: Tax-induced international mobility of talent is a controversial public-policy issue, especially when tax rates differ substantially across countries and migration barriers are low as in the case of the EU. High top-tax … Continue reading
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Tagged Camille Landais, Emmanuel Saez, Esben Schultz, Henrik Kleven, high income earners, mobility
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Six Reasons to Study Capital Taxation
Here are four reasons from Emmanuel Saez: Capital income is about 25% of national income (labor income is 75%) but distribution of capital income is much more unequal than labor income. Capital income inequality is due to differences in savings behavior but also … Continue reading
Long-term intergenerational persistence of human capital: an empirical analysis of four generations
From Mikael Lindahl, Mårten Palme, Sofia Sandgren Massih and Anna Sjögren: Most previous studies of intergenerational transmission of human capital are restricted to two generations – parents and their children. In this study we use a Swedish data set … Continue reading
Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in Great Britain and the United States since 1850
From Long and Ferrie: The US tolerates more inequality than Europe and believes its economic mobility is greater than Europe’s, though they had roughly equal rates of intergenerational occupational mobility in the late twentieth century. We extend this comparison into the … Continue reading
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Tagged Inequailty, Jason Long, Joseph Ferrie, Middle Class, mobility, Social Mobility, UK, US
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Unemployment benefits should encourage geographic mobility
An op-ed from Enrico Moretti: Americans have always been willing to move to look for better economic opportunities, and this willingness to relocate is a big factor in U.S. prosperity. Yet while everyone is free to move to look for … Continue reading
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Tagged Enrico Moretti, Local Labor Markets, mobility, Unemployment Benefits
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Today’s Links: Economic Mobility & School Financing in California
1. Surnames offer depressing clues to the extent of social mobility over generations “Mr Clark’s conclusion is that the underlying rate of social mobility is both low and surprisingly constant across countries and eras: the introduction of universal secondary education … Continue reading
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Tagged Education, inequality, mobility, School Finance, Social Mobility
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