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Extraordinary Labor Market Developments and the 2022-23 Disinflation
Davis, Steven J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Two extraordinary U.S. labor market developments facilitated the sharp disinflation in 2022-23 without raising the unemployment rate. First, pandemic-driven infection worries and social distancing intentions caused a sizable drag on labor force participation that began to reverse in the first...
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Creating and Connecting US and China Science : Chinese Diaspora and Returnee Researchers
Xie, Qingnan; Freeman, Richard B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The close connection between US and China in scientific research and education in the 2000s produced a large group of China-born researchers who work in the US ("diaspora") and a larger group of China-born researchers who gained US-research experience and returned to do their research in China...
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Time-Varying Risk Premia, Labor Market Dynamics, and Income Risk
Meeuwis, Maarten; Papanikolaou, Dimitris; Rothbaum, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We show that time variation in risk premia leads to time-varying idiosyncratic income risk for workers. Using US administrative data on worker earnings, we show that increases in risk premia lead to lower earnings for low-wage workers; these declines are primarily driven by job separations. By...
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The Wage Curve After the Great Recession
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex; Spurling, Jackson - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
infer from this that there is potential for wage-push inflation. However, real wages are falling rapidly at present and …, prior to that, real wages had been stagnant for some time. We show that unemployment is not key to understanding wage …
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Driving the Gig Economy
Abraham, Katharine G.; Haltiwanger, John C.; Hou, Claire Y. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Using rich administrative tax data, we explore the effects of the introduction of online ridesharing platforms on entry, employment and earnings in the Taxi and Limousine Services industry. Ridesharing dramatically increased the pace of entry of workers into the industry. New entrants were more...
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The Impact of Incarceration on Employment, Earnings, and Tax Filing
Garin, Andrew; Koustas, Dmitri; McPherson, Carl; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We study the effect of incarceration on wages, self-employment, and taxes and transfers in North Carolina and Ohio …
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Creative Destruction? Impact of E-Commerce on the Retail Sector
Chava, Sudheer; Oettl, Alexander; Singh, Manpreet; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
-commerce firm's fulfillment centers reduces traditional retail workers' income in geographically proximate counties by 2.4%. Wages …
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The Effects of Comprehensive Educator Evaluation and Pay Reform on Achievement
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Luo, Jin; Morgan, Andrew J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
A fundamental question for education policy is whether outcomes-based accountability including comprehensive educator evaluations and a closer relationship between effectiveness and compensation improves the quality of instruction and raises achievement. We use synthetic control methods to study...
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The Impact of Money in Politics on Labor and Capital : Evidence from Citizens United v. FEC
Akey, Pat; Babina, Tania; Buchak, Greg; Tenekedjieva, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We examine whether corporate money in politics benefits or hurts labor using the 2010 Supreme Court ruling Citizens United, which rendered bans on political election spending unconstitutional. In difference-in-difference analyses, affected states experience increases in both capital and labor...
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Online Job Posts Contain Very Little Wage Information
Batra, Honey; Michaud, Amanda; Mongey, Simon - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
a point wage. The majority (8%) feature a range of wages that are on average wide, spanning 28% of the midpoint (e …, posted wages are 40% higher than wages in BLS data in low-wage occupations and 20% lower than BLS data in high …-wage occupations. Fourth, among the wages that are posted, high wage firms are more opaque, with more and wider ranges. Fifth, there is …
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