TBA

    Anna Houstecka. (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona). Unemployment Insurance and Occupational Switching. Abstract: "In this paper, I study the relationship between unemployment benefits and occupational switching. Using US data, I document two new facts. First, unemployed individuals who are eligible to higher unemployment benefits are less likely to switch occupation. Second, I show that conditional on […]

  Andreas Gulyas. (University of Mannheim). Understanding the Sources of Earnings Losses After Job Displacement: A Machine-Learning Approach. Abstract: We document the sources behind earnings losses after job displacement adapting the generalized random forest due to Athey et al. (2019). Using administrative data from Austria over three decades, we show that displaced workers face large […]

Healthy Dietary Choices in Distorted Food Environments

    Roberto Pancrazi. (University of Warwick). Healthy Dietary Choices in Distorted Food Environments.   We analyze how distortions in the food market limit the achievement of a healthy diet. Using Nielsen data we document a novel pattern on the relationship between healthy diet and income. We then build and estimate a tractable general equilibrium model in […]

Bad jobs and low inflation

    Leonardo Melosi. (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago).   Bad jobs and low inflation.   Attendance confirmation.

Bewley Banks

Virtual Seminar

Tommaso Monacelli. (Universitá Bocconi).   Bewley Banks (co-authored with R. Jamilov).   Virtual seminar - Join the session through this link.