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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: Unemployment
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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Caught in a Revolving Door of Unemployment
From a story by Annie Lowrey in the NYTimes today: “I’ve been turned down from McDonald’s because I was told I was too articulate,” she says. “I got denied a job scrubbing toilets because I didn’t speak Spanish and turned … Continue reading
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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Tagged Coibion, Dmitri Koustas, Jobs, Labor Markets, Middle Class, Unemployment, Yuriy Gorodnichenko
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The Decline, Rebound, and Further Rise in SNAP Enrollment: Disentangling Business Cycle Fluctuations and Policy Changes
From Peter Ganong and Jeff Liebman: Approximately 1-in-7 people and 1-in-4 children received benefits from the US Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in July 2011, both all-time highs. We analyze changes in SNAP take-up over the past two decades. From 1994 … Continue reading
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Tagged Government Spending, Government Transfers, Great Recession, inequality, Jeff Liebman, Peter Ganong, SNAP, Unemployment
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Unemployment, Depression, and January Temperature – Somewhere Ed Glaeser is Smiling
From Seth Stephens-Davidowitz: The Great Recession appears to have caused a significant increase in depression. In 2009 and 2010, there was a large increase in depression queries in states with large increases in unemployment, like Nevada, Florida and Alabama, compared … Continue reading
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Tagged Depression, Ed Glaeser, January Temperature, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, Unemployment
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4 Ways Persistently High Unemployment Could Ossify – the Human Capital Channel
Brad Plumer has a post today on rough projections that we will not reach full employment until 2022. Here are four ways that failing to address the unemployment problem today could lead to long-lasting (and potentially permanent) reductions in human capital, employment, and social … Continue reading
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Tagged Blanchard, Brad Plumer, Great Recession, Human Capital, hysteresis, inequality, Jobs, labor market, long term unemployed, Summers, Unemployment
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Historical Hysteresis: Adverse Shocks vs Structural Problems
I started posting last week on the Summers & Blanchard paper, which is on hysteresis and the Unemployment problem in Europe starting in the mid 1970s. Many advocated structural explanations for hysteresis, but Summers & Blanchard looked to the Great Depression period … Continue reading
Number of Unemployed Per Job Opening
The Hamilton Project has a great report titled “The Importance of Unemployment Insurance for American Families & the Economy.” Here’s one of the key graphs:
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Tagged Demand, Hamilton Project, inequality, Jobs, labor market, Middle Class, Unemployment, unemployment insurance
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