Upjohn Working Papers

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State Unemployment Insurance Reserves Are Not Adequate

Christopher O'Leary and Kenneth J. Kline

The Long-Term Labor Market Effects of Parental Unemployment

Bernhard Schmidpeter

Using Nonexperimental Methods to Address Noncompliance

Daniel Litwok

Recessions and Local Labor Market Hysteresis

Brad Hershbein and Bryan Stuart

Do Stronger Employment Discrimination Protections Decrease Reliance on Social Security Disability Insurance? Evidence from the U.S. Social Security Reforms

Patrick Button and Mashfiqur R. Kahn

The Heterogeneous Labor Market Impacts of the Covid-19 Pandemic

Guido Matias Cortes and Eliza Forsythe

Job Search and Hiring with Two-sided Limited Information about Workseekers’ Skills

Eliana Carranza, Robert Garlick, Kate Orkin and Neil Rankin

The Effects of Welfare Time Limits on Access to Financial Resources: Evidence from the 2010s

Gabrielle Pepin

Warding Off Development: Local Control, Housing Supply, and NIMBYs

Evan Mast

The Effects of Child Care Subsidies on Paid Child Care Participation and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from the Child and Dependent Care Credit

Gabrielle Pepin

Impacts of the Covid-19 Pandemic and the CARES Act on Earnings and Inequality

Guido Matias Cortes and Eliza Forsythe

The Earned Income Tax Credit and Maternal Time Use: More Time Working and Less Time with Kids?

Jacob Bastian and Lance Lochner

Biased Beliefs and Entry into Scientific Careers

Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaulé and Danijela Vuletic Cugalj

Measuring Local Job Distress

Timothy Bartik

Nudges to Increase Completion of Welfare Applications: Experimental Evidence from Michigan

Christopher O'Leary, Dallas Oberlee and Gabrielle Pepin

Income in the Off-Season: Household Adaptation to Yearly Work Interruptions

John Coglianese and Brendan M. Price

Firms, Jobs, and Gender Disparities in Top Incomes: Evidence from Brazil

Felipe Benguria

The Impact of the Kalamazoo Promise on College Choice: An Analysis of Kalamazoo Area Math and Science Center Graduates

Michelle Miller-Adams and Bridget Timmeney

How Long-Run Effects of Local Demand Shocks on Employment Rates Vary with Local Labor Market Distress

Timothy Bartik

Informed Choices: Gender Gaps in Career Advice

Yana Gallen and Melanie Wasserman

The COVID-19 Pandemic's Evolving Impacts on the Labor Market: Who's Been Hurt and What We Should Do

Brad Hershbein and Harry Holzer

Labor Market Trends and Outcomes: What Has Changed since the Great Recession?

Erica Groshen and Harry Holzer

Human Capital and Black-White Earnings Gaps, 1996–2017

Owen Thompson

The COVID-19 Pandemic's Evolving Impacts on the Labor Market: Who's Been Hurt and What We Should Do

Gabrielle Pepin

Globalization, Trade Imbalances, and Labor Market Adjustment

Rafael Dix-Carneiro, João Paulo Pessoa, Ricardo Reyes-Heroles and Sharon Traiberman

Career Paths with a Two-Body Problem: Occupational Specialization and Geographic Mobility

Valeria Rueda and Guillaume Wilemme

Trade and Informality in the Presence of Labor Market Frictions and Regulations

Rafael Dix-Carneiro, Pinelopi Goldberg, Costas Meghir and Gabriel Ulyssea

Youth Disconnection during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Mark Borgschulte and Gabrielle Pepin

Trade Policy as an Exogenous Shock: Focusing on the Specifics

Andrew Greenland and John Lopresti

Beyond degrees: Longer term outcomes of the Kalamazoo Promise

Brad Hershbein, Isabel McMullen, Brian Pittelko and Bridget Timmeney

Informed Choices: A Model of Occupational Licensing and Statistical Discrimination

Peter Q. Blair and Bobby W. Chung

The Dynamics of Referral Hiring and Racial Inequality: Evidence from Brazil

Conrad Miller and Ian Schmutte

When Labor Enforcement and Immigration Enforcement Collide: Deterring Worker Complaints Worsens Workplace Safety

Amanda M. Grittner and Matthew S. Johnson

Labor Market Consequences of Antitax Avoidance Policies

Katarzyna Bilicka

Black Suburbanization: Causes and Consequences of a Transformation of American Cities

Alexander Bartik and Evan Mast

How Does the Elimination of State Aid to For-Profit Colleges Affect Enrollment? Evidence from California’s Reforms

Oded Gurantz, Ryan Sakoda and Sahyak Sarkar

General Equilibrium Effects of Insurance Expansions: Evidence from Long-Term Care Labor Markets

Martin Hackmann, Joerg Heining, Roman Klimke, Maria Polyakova and Holger Seibert

Isolated States of America: The Impact of State Borders on Mobility and Regional Labor Market Adjustments

Riley Wilson

Wage Posting or Wage Bargaining? A Test Using Dual Jobholders

Marta Lachowska, Alexandre Mas, Raffaele D. Saggio and Stephen Woodbury

Non-Disclosure Agreements and Externalities from Silence

Jason Sockin, Aaron Sojourner and Evan Starr

How Reliable are Administrative Reports of Paid Work Hours?

Marta Lachowska, Alexandre Mas and Stephen Woodbury

Place-Based Consequences of Person-Based Transfers: Evidence from Recessions

Brad Hershbein and Bryan Stuart

Pell Grants and Labor Supply: Evidence from a Regression Kink

Michael Kofoed

Monopsony in the U.S. Labor Market

Chen Yeh, Claudia Macaluso and Brad Hershbein

Why Aren’t People Leaving Janesville? Industry Persistence, Trade Shocks, and Mobility

Sebastian Ottinger and Mikhail Poyker

Promise Program Design for Equity Outcomes: A Landscape Survey

Michelle Miller-Adams and Isabel McMullen

The Great Migration and Educational Opportunity

Cavit Baran, Eric Chyn and Bryan Stuart

Common Ownership in Labor Markets

Jose Azar, Yue Qiu and Aaron Sojourner

Firms and Unemployment Insurance Take-Up

Marta Lachowska, Isaac Sorkin and Stephen Woodbury

Keep Me In, Coach: The Short- and Long-Term Effects of Targeted Academic Coaching

Serena Canaan, Stefanie Fischer, Pierre Mouganie and Geoffrey Schnorr