Centralized employment remains a benchmark stylization of metropolitan land use. To address its empirical relevance, we delineate "central employment zones" (CEZs) central business districts together with nearby concentrated employment - for 183 metropolitan areas in 2000. To do so, we first...

This paper studies worker and job flows at the establishment and aggregate levels. The paper is built around a set of facts concerning the variability of unemployment and vacancies in the aggregate, the distribution of net employment growth and the comovement of hours and employment growth at...

Workers’ Compensation reforms have been on the table in virtually every state over the last several years, and many states have launched comprehensive reforms.  At least nine states undertook major reforms of their workers’ compensation systems in 2004 alone, and the reforms were driven...