The rise of remote work arrangements under the COVID-19 pandemic has generated important benefits, enhancing worker productivity by providing flexibility and reducing commuting costs. Would such positive labor market outcomes enjoyed equally between spouses? Using a longitudinal dataset of...

Immigrants in a destination country both alter the prospects of economic development and influence the livelihood of natives. Using data from 10 Asian countries in the 2018-2020 World Value Survey (WVS), we provide new evidence regarding the impact of skill-driven labor market competition on...

Immigrants in a destination country not only alter the prospects of economic development, but they also influence the livelihood or labor market outcomes of the natives. Using data from 10 Asian countries from the 2018-2020 World Value Survey, we provide new evidence on the determinants of the...

This paper examines income trajectories of workers who had shifted to telecommuting during the COVID-19 pandemic, compared to those who had continued to work at least partially outside the home. Using a novel dataset of longitudinal data from 362 married couples collected over four survey...

Policy effectiveness can depend on the level of understanding that targeted beneficiaries have toward the policy. In particular, low levels of health insurance literacy can mitigate the labor market implications of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). In this paper, we estimate the effect of the ACA...

Human workers and machines often compete against each other for jobs. In light of the growing unretirement (i.e., post-retirement employment), we explore the linkages between the individuals’ skill-specific automatability and their unretirement decisions. The skill-specific automatability is...

Much of the discourse on the impact of automation on labor supply tends to assess the labor force as a whole, thereby disregarding the marginal effect on aging workers. In lights of the growing technological changes, we assess the linkage between the automatability of workers and retirement...