The value of working conditions in the United States and implications for the structure of wages

N Maestas, KJ Mullen, D Powell… - American Economic …, 2023 - aeaweb.org
We document variation in working conditions in the United States, present estimates of how
workers value these conditions, and assess the impact of working conditions on estimates of …

Local labor market impacts of the energy transition: prospects and policies

GH Hanson - 2023 - nber.org
Society's transition toward more sustainable energy sources is well underway. But
substantially reducing the use of fossil fuels to generate electricity, to power vehicles, and to …

Clean Growth

C Arkolakis, C Walsh - 2023 - nber.org
We provide a spatial theory of clean growth to assess the global impact of the rise of
renewable energy. We model the details of the combined production and transmission …

The right to work and American inequality

T VanHeuvelen - American Sociological Review, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Labor historians describe Right to Work (RTW) as among the most consequential pushbacks
against the early twentieth-century ascent of labor unions. Yet research on the economic …

The effect of working from home on the agglomeration economies of cities: Evidence from advertised wages

S Liu, Y Su - Available at SSRN 4109630, 2023 - papers.ssrn.com
Using advertised wages from job postings, we show that occupations with high levels of
working from home (WFH) adoption during the COVID-19 pandemic saw a strong decrease …

Spatial wage inequality in North America and Western Europe: changes between and within local labour markets 1975-2019

L Bauluz, P Bukowski, M Fransham, AS Lee… - 2023 - eprints.lse.ac.uk
The rise of economic inequalities in advanced economies has been often linked with the
growth of spatial inequalities within countries, yet there is limited comparative research that …

Regional divergence and house prices

G Howard, J Liebersohn - Review of Economic Dynamics, 2023 - Elsevier
We document a new fact: regional divergence, the rate at which rich states grow faster than
poor states, explains most US house price movements since 1939, including the post-2000 …

Robotization, employment, and income: regional asymmetries and long-run policies in the Euro area

E Valentini, F Compagnucci, M Gallegati… - Journal of Evolutionary …, 2023 - Springer
This work correlates the impact of robotization on employment and households' income at
the regional scale with the level of investment in R&D and education policies. This kind of …

The great reshuffle: Residential sorting during the covid-19 pandemic and its welfare implications

W Li, Y Su - Available at SSRN 3997810, 2023 - papers.ssrn.com
Using individual-level micro data of location histories, we document a sudden rise of net
migration towards suburban neighborhoods and smaller cities in the US during the COVID …

Modeling the bias of digital data: an approach to combining digital with official statistics to estimate and predict migration trends

Y Hsiao, L Fiorio, J Wakefield… - Sociological Methods & …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Obtaining reliable and timely estimates of migration flows is critical for advancing the
migration theory and guiding policy decisions, but it remains a challenge. Digital data …