Does “rage applying,” or high volume job hunting, result in a better chance of landing a new job? Economist Serdar Birinci examines the data #rageapplying ow.ly/jJtQ50P1yIf

Fascinating article by John Burn-Murdoch at Financial Times linking France's riots w/economic underperformance of immigrants in France relative to UK, Germany, or the US. Mirrors our estimates of immigrant barriers across countries from our recent paper w/Serdar Birinci and Kurt See! 1/N

Reminder -- call for papers 2023 Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Micro-Macro Labor Economics Conference, Friday Dec. 1 Submission deadline: this Friday July 21 Co-organized with @shenhav_n and Joan Monras Please RT

What a nice day for my country! Best of luck Fatih Karahan!

Early in the pandemic, most employment measures plummeted, but hours worked per worker actually rose and have held steady. This stability is a major factor in the likelihood of a soft landing for the U.S. economy ow.ly/2BWQ50PwHgL

In a heavily revised paper with Iacopo Morchio (Bristol), we find that women work at employers with lower pay but better nonpay attributes. Using theory + data, we show workplace amenities account for 5.0% lower pay for women, or half the gender pay gap in Brazil 🇧🇷! A 🧵... 1/19

Thrilled to see this paper come out in #QJE! We work out the aggregate implications of state-dependent models of price-setting (such as the Golosov-Lucas model) and show that they are closely connected to those of time-dependent models (such as the Calvo model).

Given the ease of online job applications, unemployed workers, on average, have been applying for more jobs since the 1980s. But they aren’t seeing a higher job finding rate. Why? ow.ly/1TPc50PTagG

Happy Republic Day to Turkey 🇹🇷 I was there for the 90th ten years ago. The fireworks over the Bosphorus were probably the most spectacular I’ve ever seen. Probably even better tonight for the 100th!

More coverage of our work on excess retirements by Bloomberg: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Bringing back this thread now that our paper is out in Computational Economics 🎉🎊 It was great working on this Baxter Robinson Check out the published version 🔗doi.org/10.1007/s10614…

Congratulations Fatih Karahan! Great news for my country!

Türkiye Cumhuriyet Merkez Bankası Başkanlığı Atamasına İlişkin Basın Duyurusu: tcmb.tl/tD06033

If you are in Barcelona for SED Meeting or the Barcelona Summer Forum consider topping it off with this great conference June 26 One day with top notch research on income+wealth inequality and an amazing panel with Richard Blundell Wojtek Kopczuk 🇵🇱🇺🇦 and 🇺🇲 Stefano Scarpetta Register 👇

Recently accepted to REStud, ``Job Applications and Labor Market Flows,'' from Birinci St. Louis Fed, See and Wee Bank of Canada: restud.com/job-applicatio…

Introducing UMN Economics - Just in time for Minnesota Macro 2024! sites.google.com/umn.edu/minnes…

"The Allocation of Immigrant Talent: Implications for the US and Across Countries" (w/Serdar Birinci & Kurt See) The gains from immigration depend not just on who enters, but on how well labor mkts integrate them—our paper quantifies these effects Check out our latest version!

Social assistance programs tend to be run by the federal government. One notable exception is unemployment insurance, which is managed by U.S. states. This has created differences in eligibility and benefits for these programs. Read the analysis: ow.ly/xcuT50W4k3U