Alex Bell
@alexbellecon
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Assistant Professor of Economics at Georgia State University
Atlanta, GA
Joined March 2009
Just out: my new column for @equitablegrowth on how to estimate the price of job amenities using the “anti-instrument” method—and why traditional approaches miss what workers actually give up for meaning, safety, and schedule stability. #EconTwitter #laborecon.
"When workers choose jobs with predictable schedules, safer conditions, or greater autonomy, they are often paying a price: lower wages.". @alexbellecon on a new approach to measuring job amenities, and how amenity trade-offs relate to the gender pay gap:.
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RT @alixgouldwerth: In 2020 and 2021, the U.S. government responded to an unprecedented public health emergency with unprecedented investme….
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A great read: my latest piece on early evidence surrounding pandemic spending programs, just released as part of @equitablegrowth's new series "The Recovery Reports." See the full series here
equitablegrowth.org
The Recovery Reports are four reports that examine key aspects of a number of important public policy decisions and investments around COVID-19 relief.
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RT @equitablegrowth: NEW 🚨 We just released the #RecoveryReports, a collection of four reports examining key aspects of some of the most im….
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RT @CAPolicyLab: *Alert* New research finds sig. differences in access to unemployment benefits during pandemic. Research was funded by @US….
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Remarkable data and exposé on access to unemployment insurance in Georgia during the pandemic.
bloomberg.com
A historic government response pushed more than $860 billion through a system designed more for Ford and General Electric than Uber and TaskRabbit.
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RT @TillvonWachter: *Hiring Alert* We (@CAPolicyLab's UCLA team) are hiring a Data Analyst w/ a background in labor economics. The analyst….
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RT @CAPolicyLab: Today is the 1 year anniversary of CPL's 1st UI Report, released April 29th, 2020. Since then, our team (@alexbellecon @TJ….
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RT @CAPolicyLab: Why have Extended Unemployment Benefits already "turned off" in 33 states? New report by @alexbellecon @TJ_Hedin, Geoff….
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New Report: UI Extended Benefits turned off too early in 33 states/territories due to gov's outdated measure of unemployment, which does not count jobless workers paid through extensions. My full analysis w/ @TJ_Hedin, Geoff Schnorr, and @TillvonWachter:
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Nearly 1 in 5 Californians have claimed UI for more weeks than not over the past year. Our new measure of Long-Term Unemployment accounts for high churn. More on this & the latest by me, @TJ_Hedin, Roozbeh Moghadam, Geoff Schnorr, & @TillvonWachter here:
This report counts the # of payments each claimant has received since March 15th, 2020. This allows us to compare the “durations” of unemployment between different groups of workers - and, importantly, to count the # of workers who are "Long-term Unemployed" (LTU)
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RT @CAPolicyLab: “We have solidly shifted into a world where a large-scale problem of long-term unemployment is now a reality,” @TillvonWac….
nytimes.com
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RT @TJ_Hedin: 🚨New Data Point from @CAPolicyLab🚨.(Me, @TillvonWachter, @alexbellecon & Geoff Schnorr). The share of un/under-employed Cali….
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Excellent analysis & takeaways from 2020's pandemic-related economic policies by @keds_economist!.
How can we improve Unemployment Insurance? There's a justified focus on benefit triggers right now. But that's *far* from the only thing wrong with UI. In this piece, I walk through the lessons from 2020 and what bold reform could look like:.
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Great thread on recent research findings on minimum wage.
This short thread summarizes my thinking the perennial question about minimum: "how high is OK?". Tl;dr: we don't yet know, and that's ok. 1/.
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RT @inaganguli: @ElizaForsythe @ENPancotti Richard Freeman has a short piece on advice for doing empirical economics with a great point on….
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Reflecting on 2020, here is some perspective on the scale of the labor market crisis as measured by nation-wide claims for unemployment benefits (going back several decades).
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RT @hshierholz: There was an armed insurrection at the U.S. Capitol yesterday in which the police were complicit in a way that has everythi….
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Wednesday’s violence is deeply upsetting. Lawmakers engaging in civil debate to certify the next President soon found themselves lying on the floor under barricade. Violence is not the answer. This is not what America stands for.
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