Most countries exhibit large and persistent geographical differences in wages, income, and
unemployment rates. A growing class of place-based policies attempts to address these …

Job loss is an involuntary disruptive life event with a far-reaching impact on workers' life
trajectories. Its incidence among growing segments of the workforce, alongside the recent …

Standard labor market models assume that workers hold accurate beliefs about the external
wage distribution, and hence their outside options with other employers. We test this …

This paper uses US local areas as a laboratory to test for long-term impacts of the Great
Recession. In administrative longitudinal data, I estimate that exposure to a 1 percentage …

While social scientists have documented severe consequences of job loss, scant research
investigates why workers lose their jobs. We explore the role of housing insecurity in …

This article studies the role of employer behavior in generating “negative duration
dependence”—the adverse effect of a longer unemployment spell—by sending fictitious …

We study a longitudinal sample of over one million French workers from more than five
hundred thousand employing firms. We decompose real total annual compensation per …

When I was a graduate student in economics at Harvard, I had the privilege of serving as
rapporteur for a faculty seminar in the thennew Kennedy School of Government. Among …

Job loss comes with large present value earnings losses which elude workhorse models of
unemployment and labor market policy. I propose a parsimonious model of a frictional labor …

The prevalence and consequences of eviction have transformed the lived experience of
urban poverty in America, yet little is known about why some families avoid eviction while …