Interested in Labor, Macro and Spatial｜PhD student @DukeEcon | "Micro and Macro Perspective of Labor Market" Virtual Reading Group at Duke
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(1/13) 🚨 New paper alert 🚨
"The Worker and Firm Origins of Life-Cycle Wage Inequality" (with @XinchengQiu and Jesse Wedewer @DukeEcon)
Draft available here: 🧵⬇️
jessewedewer.com/Qiu_Wedewer…
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Amy Kim’s job market paper asks whether Optional Practical Training (OPT), which allows international students to work temporarily in the U.S. after graduation, expands the skilled workforce or simply shifts employment across immigration routes and workers.
ALT Amy Kim: International Students and the U.S. Skilled Workforce: Evidence from Optional Practical Training. Areas: Labor Economics and Public Economics. Letter Writers: Leah Boustan (adviser), Ilyana Kuziemko (adviser), and David Lee.
(1/9) 🧵 JMP season is here! Join our "The Micro and Macro Perspectives of Labor Market" Virtual Reading/Workshop Group co-organized with Jesse Wedewer at @DukeEcon! It allows PhD students to connect with peers outside their home department. Here's how it runs: ⬇️
(8/9) Our weekly sessions meet every Saturday at 11:00 AM ET via Zoom. Full schedule with presenter websites and paper links available here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
(9/9) Interested in joining our workshop or presenting your research? Don't hesitate to get in touch at [email protected]. We welcome job market candidates and researchers working on micro and macro perspectives of labor markets!
(4/9) 🗓️ 11/28: Phi Adajar, “The Winner’s Curse in Test-Blind Admissions”
🗓️ 12/05: Maria Montoya-Aguirre, “Drug Lords in STEM”
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What are the effects of a mandatory reduction in working hours?
We study the effects of France's 35-hour reform on employment, output, and productivity.
New paper with @ElioNimier, @NinaRoussille, C. Montialoux, A. Roulet.
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1/19
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I posted the materials for my second-year PhD course, broadly on "Identification in Macroeconomics" -- basically a back-and-forth between structural models and data, both time-series and cross-sectional, with a focus on business-cycle questions.
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We are hiring for 2 AP positions in Economics at Cal State Fullerton. Check out our great group of people. Please RT.
aeaweb.org/joe/listing.php?J…,,
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Excited to share a new working paper with @sndurlauf and Alexander Shapoval! We study six generations of families in Liaoning province to see how the footprints of major crises in the late Qing dynasty can be traced in intergenerational mobility dynamics. #EconJobMarket
In the last 130 years of China’s Qing Dynasty, aggregate intergenerational mobility increased.
A working paper from our postdoc and job market candidate @Butaeva_K, with @sndurlauf & Alexander Shapoval, reveals a more complicated story.
Keep reading🧵⬇️
bit.ly/3VAXLsE
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🚨Understanding Migration Responses to Local Shocks
New version of paper with @borusyak and Brian Kovak!
1/6 Many papers find that local labor demand shocks have sizable effects on wages and employment, but surprisingly small or imprecise effects on local population.
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New paper! 📄
If you get a job at a better paying firm, your take home pay goes up. How much more do you spend?
It matters because the answer tells us whether gaps in pay between firms translate into gaps in living standards. 1/9
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Announcing OpenCensus, a new project with
@EzraKarger
We are transcribing the historical US censuses and releasing them as open data
2.6 million people so far in 1940, browse here:
opencensus.us
