educational type with high consumption value and low effort costs. This increases the skill mismatch and aggregate unemployment in …

development. It affects human capital through both religious and secular education. It affects population and labor by influencing …We use the elements of a macroeconomic production function—physical capital, human capital, labor, and technology …

The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data. We discuss a methodology for correcting …

unemployment rates, which can be considered an indicator of the difficulty facing young people trying to integrate into the labor … duration of studies, as well as on job prospects with and without completed degrees. One way to model entry into the labor … in finding a job. Standard models of job search and education assume that skills can be upgraded instantaneously (and …

public goods. We examine how health insurance coverage affects the education of students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD … little change in ASD identification, the mandate crowds-out special education supports for students with ASD by shifting …

on education. Afterwards, I analyze how prioritarians would allocate resources in a dynamic model of skill formation and …

COVID-19 abruptly impacted the labor market with the unemployment rate jumping to 14.7 percent less than two months … after state governments began adopting social distancing measures. Unemployment of this magnitude has not been seen since … the Great Depression. This paper provides the first study of how the pandemic impacted minority unemployment using CPS …

We analyze the redistributive (dis)advantages of a minimum wage over income taxation in competitive labor markets. A … minimum wage causes more unemployment, but also leads to more skill formation as unemployment is concentrated on low … gains of more skill formation outweigh the social welfare losses of increased unemployment. Using a highly conservative …

This paper studies a two-region model in which unemployment, education decisions and interregional migration are … change reduces wages of the unskilled. Both education and migration decisions are distorted by a uniform unemployment … endogenous. The poorer region exhibits both lower wages and higher unemployment rates, and migrants to the richer region are …