Who Benefits from Online Gig Economy Platforms?

By Christopher T. Stanton and Catherine Thomas

American Economic Review, June 2025

Online labor platforms for short-term remote work have many more job seekers than available jobs. Despite their relative abundance, workers capture a substantial share of the surplus from transactions. We draw this conclusion from demand estimates that im...

Patterns of Artificial Intelligence Adoption by Hospitals

By Avi Goldfarb, Xianda (Henry) He, and Florenta Teodoridis

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2025

This study examines artificial intelligence (AI) adoption in US hospitals using three distinct datasets: survey data from the American Hospital Association on AI for operations-related uses (27 percent adopt), employment data from Revelio Labs on workers ...

Unhoused and Mismeasured: The Accuracy of Surveys of Those Experiencing Homelessness

By Bruce D. Meyer, Angela Wyse, Gillian Meyer, Alexa Grunwaldt, and Derek Wu

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2025

We examine the accuracy of self-reported information from homeless shelter residents in the American Community Survey by comparing survey responses to administrative records. While basic demographic information (age, gender, and citizenship) is reported w...

Labor Market Attachment and Perceived Barriers to Work among Homeless Families

By Nour Abdul-Razzak, John Eric Humphries, Stephen Stapleton, and Winnie van Dijk

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2025

We study labor market attachment among homeless families using baseline survey data from a large-scale study in Illinois. Of homeless parents, 40 percent worked in the past month. Among those not working, most report wanting and actively searching for a j...

Trade Policy Uncertainty and the Labor Market: State-Level Evidence

By Céline Poilly and Fabien Tripier

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2025

This paper provides US state-level evidence regarding the effects of trade policy uncertainty on the labor market. We show that a higher exposure to trade policy uncertainty generates a contraction in total hours worked at the state level. The extensive m...

AI and Women's Employment in Europe

By Stefania Albanesi, António Dias da Silva, Juan F. Jimeno, Ana Lamo, and Alena Wabitsch

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2025

We examine the link between the diffusion of artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled technologies and changes in the female employment share in 16 European countries over the period 2011–2019. Using data for occupations at the three-digit level, we find th...

How Different Uses of AI Shape Labor Demand: Evidence from France

By Philippe Aghion, Simon Bunel, Xavier Jaravel, Thomas Mikaelsen, Alexandra Roulet, and Jakob Søgaard

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2025

Using French firm-level data on AI adoption from 2017–2020, we find that, first, firms adopting AI are larger and more productive and skill intensive. Second, difference-in-difference estimates reveal an increase in firm-level employment and sales after...

Enabling Employment: How Do Employer Disability Practices Affect Disability Employment Outcomes?

By Lawrence Houston and Douglas Kruse

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2025

We use panel data from 235 firms from 2019–2023 to examine how disability-related practices affect disability employment outcomes, using a detailed annual survey of large US companies in the National Organization on Disability, which collectively employ...

SMEs and Workers during Crises: Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic in Uganda

By Selim Gulesci, Francesco Loiacono, Andreas Madestam, and Miri Stryjan

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2025

We use a five-year panel of Ugandan SMEs, supplemented with phone-survey data from August 2020, to analyze how the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic affected profits and employment. Most firms had employees, enabling us to investigate whether—and how—the...

Economic Measurement Lost in a Random Forest? A Case Study of Employment Data

By Abe Dunn, Eric English, Kyle Hood, Lowell Mason, and Brian Quistorff

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2025

Big data and machine learning (ML) offer transformative potential for economic measurement. This study evaluates the use of alternative employment data from a payroll processor to improve on timely measures of regional employment estimates, comparing ML m...

From Online Job Postings to Economic Insights: A Machine Learning Approach to Structuring Naturally Occurring Data

By Tatjana Dahlhaus, Reinhard Ellwanger, Gabriela Galassi, and Pierre-Yves Yanni

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2025

This paper develops a matched vacancy-company dataset by combining daily Canadian online job postings with smartphone-derived visits to points of interest. To address inconsistencies in company names, we enhance natural language processing algorithms for ...

Labor Market Shocks and Immigration Enforcement

By Sergio Barrera, Brianna Felegi, and Sarina Heron

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2025

We study the effects of labor market shocks on immigration enforcement by evaluating the impact of the Great Recession on the likelihood that commuting zones partner with immigration authorities through 287(g) agreements and early adoption of Secure Commu...

Can Incorrect Beliefs about the Racial Composition of Welfare and Unemployment Insurance Beneficiaries Be Changed?

By Jeffrey Carpenter, Jakina Debnam Guzman, Peter Hans Matthews, and Erin L. Wolcott

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2025

Some argue that support for the social safety net in the United States is influenced by beliefs about the beneficiaries' race. Information treatments have the potential to change these beliefs, but for them to be policy relevant, their effects must last b...

Learning from Job Offers about Labor Supply Constraints: A Barrier for Women without Work Experience

By Lisa Ho, Suhani Jalota, and Anahita Karandikar

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2025

Labor market surveys often include individuals outside the workforce, but respondents who lack work experience may have inaccurate beliefs about their labor supply preferences and constraints. Using data from an incentivized job preferences elicitation in...

Parental Time Allocation and Gender Disparities: The Role of Child Tax Credit Reform

By Tennecia Dacass, Elif B. Dilden, and Yang Jiao

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2025

The Child Tax Credit (CTC) plays a critical role in reducing child poverty and promoting parental workforce participation. However, its effects on how parents allocate their time remain insufficiently studied. This research fills this gap by analyzing the...

What Happened to the U.S. Employment Miracle [part 2]

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Equity and Efficiency in Unemployment Insurance

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New Gig Work or Changes in Reporting? Understanding Self-Employment Trends in Tax Data

By Andrew Garin, Emilie Jackson, and Dmitri Koustas

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2025

We show that increases in the share of workers reporting self-employment to the IRS are not associated with changes in firm-reported payments to "gig" and other contract workers after 2005 but are driven primarily by self-reported earnings of individuals ...

Skill Depreciation during Unemployment: Evidence from Panel Data

By Jonathan Cohen, Andrew C. Johnston, and Attila Lindner

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2025

We examine the depreciation of skills among unemployed German workers using a panel of skill measures linked to administrative data. Both the reemployment hazard and reemployment earnings steadily decline with unemployment duration. Indicators of depressi...