Previous articleNext article FreeJacob Mincer AwardPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmailPrint SectionsMoreThe Society of Labor Economists (SOLE) awards the 2023 Jacob Mincer Award for lifetime contributions to labor economics to Joseph Altonji.Joe Altonji is the Thomas DeWitt Cuyler Professor of Economics at Yale University and has taught there since 2002. He previously held faculty positions at Columbia University and Northwestern University. Joe earned his undergraduate degree from Yale University in 1975 and his PhD in economics from Princeton University in 1981. He is a SOLE fellow (elected in 2006), a past president of SOLE (2018–19), the 2018 recipient of the IZA Prize in Labor Economics, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and a fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.Altonji has been an influential and insightful leader in labor economics for four decades with pioneering research contributions spanning most core areas of the field, including labor supply, labor market cyclical fluctuations, economics of the family, wage determination, economics of education and estimation of returns to different educational investments, earnings dynamics, labor market discrimination, race and gender disparities in the labor market, and applied econometric methods. His work is notable in developing and implementing more rigorous empirical tests of economic theories to better understand the operation of labor markets, educational choices, and household decisions concerning labor supply and consumption. Along the way he has illuminated many policy-relevant issues and made fundamental and practical contributions to empirical methodology.Altonji’s early empirical research (Review of Economic Studies 1982) challenged a core tenet of real business cycle models that cyclical fluctuations in employment reflected optimizing labor supply responses to expected real wages. He then provided more convincing micro panel data evidence on individual-level intertemporal labor supply behavior (Journal of Political Economy 1986). His prominent series of papers (with Fumio Hayashi and Laurence Kotlikoff) assessed the extent to which the extended family represents the appropriate unit of economic decision-making, including a clever and compelling test of whether parents and their adult children act as a single unified economic unit by examining the extent to which the distribution of consumption of parents and children systematically depends on the distribution of their incomes (American Economic Review 1992). Altonji also has done important work improving the econometric modeling of earnings dynamics (Econometrica 2009 with Anthony Smith and Ivan Vidangos) and providing new approaches to distinguishing labor market returns to job seniority versus general labor market experience (e.g., Review of Economic Studi
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We study how active labor market policies affect the exchange of information and support among job seekers. Leveraging a unique social network survey in Ethiopia, we find that a randomized job search assistance intervention reduces information sharing and support between treated job seekers and their active job search partners. Because of lower job search support, untreated individuals search less and, suggestively, have worse employment outcomes. These results are consistent with a model of networks where unemployed individuals form job search partnerships to exploit the complementarities of job search.
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Previous articleNext article No AccessThe Effects of Child Tax Benefits on Poverty and Labor Supply: Evidence from the Canada Child Benefit and Universal Child Care BenefitMichael Baker, Derek Messacar, and Mark StabileMichael Baker Search for more articles by this author , Derek Messacar Search for more articles by this author , and Mark Stabile Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Journal of Labor Economics Just Accepted Published for the Society of Labor Economists, Economics Research Center/ NORC Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/721379 Views: 358Total views on this site HistoryAccepted June 10, 2022 PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.
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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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Previous articleNext article No AccessWhat’s the Inside Scoop? Challenges in the Supply and Demand for Information on EmployersJason Sockin and Aaron SojournerJason Sockin Search for more articles by this author and Aaron Sojourner Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Journal of Labor Economics Just Accepted Published for the Society of Labor Economists, Economics Research Center/ NORC Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/721701 Views: 87Total views on this site HistoryAccepted July 07, 2022 PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.
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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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