5 papers
Robots and the Public Finance of Disability Insurance
Duha T. Altindag, Reem El Cheikh Taha, John M. Nunley +1
Automation affects public budgets through wages and the tax base, and also through inflows into social insurance. We estimate the effect of industrial robot exposure on Social Secu…
Mobile Foreigners: Mortgage Lock-In and H-1B Demand
Duha T. Altindag, John M. Nunley, R. Alan Seals
The 2022 rise in U.S. mortgage rates increased relocation costs for homeowners with low-rate mortgages. This cost varies across destinations because each draws workers from a diffe…
Routine Work, Firm Boundaries, and the Rise of Local Supplier Entry
Duha T. Altindag, Nabamita Dutta, John M. Nunley +2
Between 2005 and 2019, U.S. business applications rose 40 percent while conversion to employer firms fell by nearly half. We study whether boundary redrawing helps explain this pat…
Hiring Discrimination and the Task Content of Jobs: Evidence from a Large-Scale Resume Audit
Sharon Braun, Jonathan Bushnell, Zachary Cowell +6
We conducted a large-scale resume audit of 36,880 applications to 9,220 job advertisements for new college graduates across the United States. Firms express task preferences throug…
The Distribution of Occupational Tasks in the United States: Implications for a Diverse and Aging Population
Samuel Cole, Zachary Cowell, John M. Nunley +1
We document the age-race-gender intersectionality in the distribution of occupational tasks in the United States. We also investigate how the task content of work changed from the…