Economic Research
Economic ResearchTopic - Labor
Inferring Labor Income Risk From Economic Choices: An Indirect Inference Approach
Fatih Guvenen, Anthony Smith
July 2010 - Staff Report
Moving Back Home: Insurance Against Labor Market Risk
Greg Kaplan
July 2010 - Staff Report
Human Capital Values and Returns: Bounds Implied By Earnings and Asset Returns Data
Mark Huggett, Greg Kaplan
July 2010 - Staff Report
Taxes, Wages and Human Capital
Progressive tax policies decrease before-tax wage inequality, suggests research by Fatih Guvenen and colleagues, by diminishing motivation to acquire higher education and job skills
Douglas Clement
June 2010 - The Region
Taxation of Human Capital and Wage Inequality: A Cross-Country Analysis
Fatih Guvenen, Burhanettin Kuruscu, Serdar Ozkan
November 2009 - Staff Report
Boomerang Kids: Labor Market Dynamics and Moving Back Home
Greg Kaplan
October 2009 - Working Paper
Unequal We Stand: An Empirical Analysis of Economic Inequality in the United States, 1967–2006
Fabrizio Perri, Giovanni L. Violante, Jonathan Heathcote
October 2009 - Staff Report
Fiscal Policy and the Great Depression
Ellen McGrattan's research suggests that dividend income taxation during Depression years may have had a significant impact on investment, equity values and GDP.
Douglas Clement
September 2009 - The Region
Licensed to Bill
Morris Kleiner examines the dramatic rise of U.S. occupational licensing and the economic consequences of this little-noted trend.
Douglas Clement
September 2009 - The Region
A Quantitative Analysis of the Evolution of the U.S. Wage Distribution: 1970–2000
Fatih Guvenen, Burhanettin Kuruscu
May 2009 - Staff Report
Joint-Search Theory: New Opportunities and New Frictions
Giovanni L. Violante, Fatih Guvenen, Bulent Guler
May 2009 - Staff Report
A Theory of Outsourcing and Wage Decline
Thomas J. Holmes, Julia Thornton Snider
March 2009 - Working Paper
Are Income Gains Due to More Wives Working Longer Hours?
Terry J. Fitzgerald
September 2008 - The Region
Just what is the middle class, and other stuff
Terry J. Fitzgerald, Ronald A. Wirtz
September 2008 - fedgazette
Say hello to the modest good life for me
Anxiety over middle class living is complex, but probably not as warranted as the hand-wringing might suggest
Terry J. Fitzgerald, Ronald A. Wirtz
September 2008 - fedgazette
