Scholarly Writing: Working Papers | Aaron Sojourner

Goldsmith-Pinkham, P., E. Pancotti, & A. Sojourner. Predicting Initial Unemployment Insurance Claims Using Google Trends
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Working Papers

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Economic Policy Institute:Coronavirus job losses for the last two weeks could match two years of Great Recession's job losses
Economic Policy Institute: The coronavirus crisis led to a record-breaking spike in weekly uninsurance claims

Press Mentions

Mpls Fed For All: Crisis response: Institute economists address the pandemic
Politico Morning Money: Here comes another bad jobless claims number
Politico Morning Money: Brace for another grim (but maybe not as grim) jobless claim number
Axios: U.S. likely lost more jobs in 4 weeks than it gained in 11 years
The Fiscal Times: The worst recession since the Great Depression
Politico Morning Money: Brace for more terrible job losses
Washington Post: Over 10 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits in March as economy collapsed
- Weather Channel: Another 6.6 Million Americans Are Out of Work
New York Times: Jobless claims hit 3.3 million in the last report. This week's will probably be worse.
New York Times: Coronavirus spreads amid supply shortages, stay-at-home orders, nd sobering economics
Washington Post: The Finance 202
Vox: Coronavirus could lead to the highest unemployment levels since the Great Depression
Politico Morning Money: Laying out the coronavirus scenarios for the economy
Politico Morning Money: How do we get out?
Vox: 9 charts showing what the coronvirus is doing to the economy
Minnesota Public Radio: Minnesota's head of employment answers your unemployment questions
Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank's Opportunity & Inclusive Growth Institute: Crisis Response: Institute's economists address the pandemic
Forbes: Ahead of Thursday's jobless claims, the devil is in the revisions
Politico: 'Just damage containment': cost of coronavirus containment keeps rising
New York Times: More than 3 million Americans lost their jobs last week. See your state.
Politico Morning Money: How high will claims go?
Salon: More workers filed for unemployment last week than any other in U.S. history
The Fiscal Times: 10 million jobs lost, and millions more to come
Yale Insights: Making sense of a record-breaking wave of unemployment claims
Courthouse News: As economy shifts, length of lockdown will dictate speed of recovery
The Guardian: When it comes to unemployment in Australia, definitions have been broken
Common Dreams: "This chart, Holy Sh*t": Analysis shows more workers filed for unemployment last week than any other in U.S. history
- Also: Wall Street Window

Marinescu. I., Y. Qiu, & A. Sojourner. Wage Inequality and Labor Rights Violations
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MarketWatch: Low wages are just the start of the problems for millions of U.S. workers during COVID-19 -- here's why

Sockin, J. & A. Sojourner. What's the Inside Scoop? Challenges in the Supply and Demand for Information about Job Attributes
In Working Papers

Chaparro, J., A. Sojourner, & M. Wiswall, Early Childhood Care and Cognitive Development
In Working Papers
Working Papers

Press Mentions

Poverty Research and Policy podcast: The Value of Investments in Quality Child Care

McDevitt, R. & A. Sojourner. Demand, Regulation, and Welfare on the Margin of Alternative Financial Services
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Summaries

Policy brief (3-pager) Albany (N.Y.) Times-Union op-ed: Banks need to accelerate and improve payment systems. Link

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Duke Fuqua summary: New research could improve check cashing industry for customers and businesses

Qiu, Y. & A. Sojourner. Labor-Market Concentration & Labor Compensation
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Forbes opinion: How Big Firms Keep Wages Low
Phenomenal World: The Emerging Monopsony Consensus
Hamilton Project: The Shift in Private-Sector Union Participation
Center for American Progress: The Modern Company Town