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The WWII domestic war production effort was responsible for large and persistent increases in black wages and reductions in the racial wage gap, with important intergenerational spillovers, from Aizer, Boone, Lleras-Muney, and Vogel nber.org/papers/w27689

Pandemic Perseverance, Then and Now - WSJ wsj.com/articles/pande…

Lower-income households engage in more expenditure switching in response to changes in import prices, generating substantially unequal welfare effects of large import price changes, from @raphauer, Ariel Burstein, Sarah Lein, and Jonathan Vogel nber.org/papers/w29757

Minimum wages, together with supply and demand, play a central role in shaping the evolution of the US college premium and the differential evolution of state-level college premia, from Jonathan Vogel nber.org/papers/w30311

Changing minimum wages have small effects on the college premium on impact. Over longer horizons, however, they play a central role shaping national and state-level college premia, from Jonathan Vogel nber.org/papers/w31028

Finding an economically moderate, statistically significant degree of aggregate capital-skill complementarity by combining an aggregate model with detailed micro-data from France, from Giuseppe Berlingieri, Filippo Boeri, Danial Lashkari, and Jonathan Vogel

WP Alert: A leading explanation for rising inequality is capital-skill complementarity—the idea that technical advances embodied in cheaper capital equipment raise relative demand for skilled labor. Using French firm-level data, we study if this channel indeed shapes inequality.

Using Switzerland to show that international price shocks cause differential changes in costs of living for those near the border due to cross-border shopping, from Ariel Burstein, Sarah Lein, and Jonathan Vogel nber.org/papers/w33006

New: "Cross-border shopping: Evidence and welfare implications for Switzerland" by Ariel Burstein (Ariel Burstein), Sarah Lein (Sarah Lein) and Jonathan Vogel (Jonathan Vogel). doi.org/10.1016/j.jint… 1/2

A study of the welfare effects of buyer and seller power in vertical relations and an empirical approach for quantifying the contributions of each channel to deadweight loss, applied to coal procurement by power plants in Texas, from Mert Demirer and @MichRubens

Ten years after the Swiss franc shock: Lessons on prices, expenditure switching, and inequality Raphael Auer Raphael Auer Bank for International Settlements, Ariel Burstein UCLA, Sarah Lein Sarah Lein University of Basel KOF Swiss Economic Institute SFI ow.ly/B6Ll50UOrJz

Recently accepted by #QJE, “The Race Between Education, Technology, and the Minimum Wage,” by Jonathan Vogel (Jonathan Vogel): doi.org/10.1093/qje/qj…

A study of labor-market effects of immigrant inflows across jobs more exposed to immigrant consumption, finds large, positive, persistent effects on native Norwegian worker income, from Sigurd Galaasen, @andreaskostol, Joan Monras, and Jonathan Vogel nber.org/papers/w33930

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