Using a unique dataset based on individual Unemployment Insurance wage records for Illinois that are matched to other Census data for the years 1990-95, the authors analyze the extent to which escape from or entry into low earnings among adult workers was associated with changes in their...

Books reviewed: Walter Isard, History of Regional Science and the Regional Science Association International: The Beginnings and Early History Robert E. Lang, Edgeless Cities: Exploring the Elusive Metropolis Lori G. Kletzer, Imports, Exports, and Jobs: What Does Trade Mean for Employment and...

The effect of generous unemployment benefits on the propensity of individuals to stay on unemployment was hotly debated during the COVID pandemic. This paper examines the impact of the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC) using rich individual data for the universe of all UI...

We study the job training provided under the US Workforce Investment Act (WIA) to adults and dislocated workers in two states. Our substantive contributions center on impacts estimated non-experimentally using administrative data. These impacts compare WIA participants who do and do not receive...

The rise of super-centers and the entry of Wal-Mart into food retailing have dramatically altered the competitive environment in the industry. This paper explores the impact of such changes on the labor market practices of traditional food retailers. We use longitudinal data on workers and firms...

This paper uses a novel approach to measure firm entry and exit, mergers and acquisition. It uses information about the flows of clusters of workers across business units to identify longitudinal linkage relationships in longitudinal business data. These longitudinal relationships may be the...

This paper uses new data to examine how workers’ perceptions of the impact of trade on jobs like theirs are related to economic variables representing their career paths, job characteristics, and local labor market conditions. We find that only 17% of workers think trade creates jobs. And even...

This paper uses matched employer-employee data from the U.S. Census Bureau to investigate the contribution of worker and firm reallocation to changes in wage inequality within and across industries between 1992 and 2003. We find that the entry and exit of firms and the sorting of workers and...

The striking geographical concentration of economic activities suggests that there are substantial benefits toagglomeration. However, the nature of those benefits remains unclear. In this paper we take advantage of a newdataset to quantify the role of one of the main contenders - the matching of...