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Previous articleNext article FreeSOLE Prize for Contributions to Data and MeasurementPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmailPrint SectionsMoreSusan Houseman is the 2023 recipient of the SOLE Prize for Contributions to Data and Measurement. Susan is vice president and director of research at the W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research. She is also a member of the National Bureau of Economic Research Conference on Research on Income and Wealth, chairs the Technical Advisory Committee of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), codirects the Labor Statistics Program at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), and has chaired the Business and Economics Statistics section of the American Statistical Association.Susan is a labor economist whose research focuses on temporary and contract employment arrangements, domestic outsourcing, offshoring, manufacturing, and measurement issues in economic statistics. She has a particular interest in promoting our understanding and measurement of various types of nonstandard employment, such as part-time employment, temporary employment, flexible staffing arrangements, and temporary help agency employment. Another critically important interest is her research on the measurement of outsourcing and offshoring and their impact on productivity and the labor market.As the long-serving chair (since 2012) of the BLS Technical Advisory Committee, she has worked closely with BLS leadership to promote an ongoing constructive dialogue between the BLS and technical experts on the challenges that it and the other statistical agencies face in keeping up with an ever-changing economy. Serving in this capacity is one example of her playing a leadership role in promoting the assessment of and improvements in the data infrastructure tracking the US economy.As another example, she chaired the National Academy of Sciences’ study of contingent and alternative work arrangements that was commissioned by the BLS. The consensus report published in 2020 provides critical guidance for the updates to the Contingent Worker Supplement survey conducted by the BLS. The report highlights the difficult measurement challenges of capturing alternative work arrangements that do not fit neatly into questions asked about employment activity on traditional household surveys.Following up on that work, she has developed new survey evidence on independent contracting in collaborative work with Katharine Abraham, Brad Hershbein, and Beth Truesdale. This new survey evidence is interesting in its own right, but this team also developed the survey and evidence to provide guidance to the BLS (and the other statistical agencies) on how to overcome the challenges for the measurement of alternative forms of self-employment, independent contractors in particular.Her influential book Measuring Globalization: Better Trade Statistics for Better Policy (coedited with Michae
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Chloe N. East, Philip Luck, Hani Mansour, Andrea Velasquez
We examine the labor market effects of Secure Communities (SC), a police-based immigration enforcement policy implemented in 2008–13. Using variation in implementation across local areas and over time, we find that SC decreased the employment of likely undocumented immigrants. These effects are driven not only by deportations but also by adjustments among immigrants who remain in the United States. Importantly, SC also decreased the employment and hourly wages of US-born individuals. We provide support for two mechanisms that could explain this decline in labor demand: an increase in labor costs that decreases job creation and a reduction in local consumption.
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We provide evidence that short-term shocks to student cognitive performance have long-lasting consequences for human capital development. We use administrative data from Mexico City to show that students’ exposure to violent crime in the week immediately prior to a high-stakes exam lowers females’ test scores by 11% of a standard deviation. As a result, 19% of female students exposed to violent crime are subsequently assigned to less preferred, lower-quality high schools. We find no such effect for males and show that crime-induced concentration problems are an underlying mechanism behind the detrimental effects on females’ test scores.
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Mark Bils, Marianna Kudlyak, Paulo de Carvalho Lins
We estimate cyclicality in labor’s user cost allowing for cyclical fluctuations in the quality of worker-firm matches and wages that are smoothed within employment matches. To do so, we exploit a match’s long-run wage to control for its quality. Using 1980–2019 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data, we identify three channels by which recessions affect user cost: they lower the new-hire wage and wages going forward in the match, but they also result in higher subsequent separations. We find that labor’s user cost is highly procyclical, increasing by more than 4% for a 1 percentage point decline in unemployment.
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Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, Steven J. Davis
Many Americans continued some forms of social distancing after the pandemic. This phenomenon is stronger among older persons, less educated individuals, and those who interact daily with persons at high risk from infectious diseases. Regression models fit to individual-level data suggest that social distancing lowered labor force participation by 2.4 percentage points in 2022, 1.2 points on an earnings-weighted basis. When combined with simple equilibrium models, our results imply that the social distancing drag on participation reduced US output by $205 billion in 2022, shrank the college wage premium by 2.1 percentage points, and modestly steepened the cross-sectional age-wage profile.
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Rising between-firm pay dispersion accounts for the majority of the dramatic increase in earnings inequality in the United States in the last several decades. This paper shows that a distinct cross-cohort pattern drives this rise: newer cohorts of firms enter more dispersed and stay more dispersed throughout their lives. These cohort patterns suggest a link between changes in firm entry associated with the decline in business dynamism and the rise in earnings inequality. Cohort effects also imply a slow diffusion of inequality: inequality rises as younger and more unequal cohorts of firms replace older and more equal cohorts.
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