The comparative advantage of a location shapes its industrial structure. Current theoretical models based on this principle do not take a…
September 28, 2022, Opinion: "For decades the service sector has driven the economy in the United States. Is there a role for industrial…
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July 29, 2022, Paper: "To put it extremely bluntly (and he would never say this out loud): Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell probably doesn’…
July 2022, Paper: "Although the South Korean economy fared relatively well on the whole during the pandemic, the labor market consequences…
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July 2022, Paper: "We document the performance implications of compensation dispersion under organizational-performance pay, a scheme where…
July 8, 2022, Opinion: "The US employment report for June continues to show a strong labor market that is consistent with a strong economy…
Government agencies around the world struggle to retain frontline workers, as high job demands and low job resources contribute to…
2022, Paper: "This paper synthesizes what economists have learned about human capital since Becker (1962) into four stylized facts. First,…
June 14, 2022, Paper: "A large literature documents the positive effects of experiments aiming to alleviate the informational and…
May 2022, Paper: "This paper makes the case that current social contracts are often inadequate, irrelevant, or unjust for informal workers…