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David Alfaro Serrano

PhD Student

Eric Verhoogen

Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs

The economic and fiscal impacts of special tax treatments in Value Added Tax (VAT) systems

Unemployment Insurance Schemes in Developing Countries

This proposed research project will study the most efficient form of unemployment support using a large data set on the employment history of over 400,000 workers. This employment data will be combined with expenditure and unemployment compensation data for the study. The researchers will categorize different types of unemployment compensation (unemployment insurance, lump sum payments, and no insurance) and use sophisticated methods to analyze how the type of unemployment compensation unemployed workers receive affects affect their consumption over time.

Daniel Deibler

PhD Student

Causes and Consequences of Contingent Work in the U.S. Labor Market

Miguel Urquiola

Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs; Dean of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Recruiting International Migrant Labor: Theory and Evidence

Languages, laws and labor contracts

The decline in bargaining power for large groups of workers is at the core of rising inequality. This research aims to provide some of the first causal evidence that contractual language is not merely cheap talk but rather meaningfully shapes the decisions of contracting parties in the labor market. The grant will support an effort to digitize union contracts stored at the Kheel Center at Cornell University. In addition to digitization, the researchers will use language processing tools to extract norms, commitments, and entitlements from the text.

Evan Friedman

PhD Student

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