3 papers
econ.GN2026
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…
econ.GN2026
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…
econ.GN2022
The Price of COVID-19 Risk in a Public University
Duha Altindag, Samuel Cole, R. Alan Seals
We study the allocation of and compensation for occupational COVID-19 risk at Auburn University, a large public university in the U.S. In Spring 2021, approximately half of the fac…