Work from home before and after the COVID-19 outbreak

A Bick, A Blandin, K Mertens - American Economic Journal …, 2023 - aeaweb.org
Based on novel survey data, we document a persistent rise in work from home (WFH) over
the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using theory and direct survey evidence, we argue …

Real-time labor market estimates during the 2020 coronavirus outbreak

A Bick, A Blandin - Available at SSRN 3692425, 2021 - papers.ssrn.com
This project aims to provide labor market data several weeks ahead of official statistics via a
national online labor market survey of a sample representative of the US working age …

Leisure luxuries and the labor supply of young men

M Aguiar, M Bils, KK Charles… - Journal of Political …, 2021 - journals.uchicago.edu
We propose a methodology exploiting time diary data and “leisure Engel curves” to infer
quality changes across leisure activities and measure the effects on the marginal return to …

Labor market dynamics and development

K Donovan, WJ Lu, T Schoellman - The Quarterly Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We provide new evidence on how labor market dynamics vary with development. We build a
new data set consisting of harmonized microdata from rotating panel labor force surveys …

The minimum wage, informal pay, and tax enforcement

A Bíró, D Prinz, L Sándor - Journal of Public Economics, 2022 - Elsevier
We study the implications of the minimum wage for taxation in an environment with imperfect
enforcement and informality. Leveraging an increase in the audit threat for declared …

Risky business cycles

S Basu, G Candian, R Chahrour, R Valchev - 2021 - nber.org
We identify a shock that explains the bulk of fluctuations in equity risk premia, and show that
the shock also explains a large fraction of the business-cycle comovements of output …

Why Do Wages Grow Faster for Educated Workers?

DJ Deming - 2023 - nber.org
The US college wage premium doubles over the life cycle, from 27 percent at age 25 to 60
percent at age 55. Using a panel survey of workers followed through age 60, I show that …

Marriage Market and Labour Market Sorting

P Calvo, I Lindenlaub, A Reynoso - Review of Economic Studies, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We develop a new equilibrium model in which households' labour supply choices form the
link between sorting on the marriage market and sorting on the labour market. We first show …

Hours, occupations, and gender differences in labor market outcomes

A Erosa, L Fuster, G Kambourov… - American Economic …, 2022 - aeaweb.org
Goldin (2014) offers a narrative in which gender differences in home production
responsibilities create gender gaps in labor market outcomes. We carry out a model-based …

Coordinated firm-level work processes and macroeconomic resilience

M Kuhn, J Luo, I Manovskii, X Qiu - Journal of Monetary Economics, 2023 - Elsevier
The production processes at many firms rely on a highly choreographed and interdependent
network of workers performing specialized jobs. We designed and implemented a targeted …