Research

My RePEc page is here

Working papers

• Estimating Union Wage Spillovers: The Role of Bargaining and Emulation Effects, 2023. (with D. A. Green, Iann Snoddy, Jeanne Tschopp). revise and resubmit, Journal of Political Economy

• Estimating the Gains from Trade in Frictional Labour Markets, October 2023. (with German Pupato and Jeanne Tschoop) Online Appendix revise and resubmit, The Scandinavian Journal of Economics

• Job Prospects and Pay Gaps: Theory and Evidence from U.S. Cities, September 2023. (with Christopher Bidner)

• Highly Disaggregated Topological Land Unavailability, December 2017. (with Chandler Lutz)

• Local Economic Conditions and Local Equity Preferences, July 2017. (with Chandler Lutz and Aleksandra Rzeznik)

• Taking Selection to Task: Bounds on Trends in Occupational Task Prices, August 2016. (witgh Peter Gottchalk and David A. Green)

• Job Polarization in the U.S.: A Reassessment of the Evidence from the 1980s and 1990s, August 2011. (with A.M. Lefter)

• Estimating Labour Supply Responses using Provincial Tax Reforms, 2005.

Publications

• The Effects of a Targeted Financial Constraint on the Housing Market, April 2021. The Review of Financial Studies (with Lu Han, Chandler Lutz, and Derek Stacey)

• Economy-Wide Spillovers from Booms: Long-Distance Commuting and the Spread of Wage Effects, March 2019 Journal of Labor Economics. (with David A. Green, Rene Morissette, and Iain Snoddy)

• In Search of Labor Demand. American Economic Review, September 2018. (with Paul Beaudry and David A. Green)

• The Great Reversal in the Demand for Skill and Cognitive Tasks. Journal of Labor Economics, 2016. (with Paul Beaudry and David A. Green)

• Has the Canadian Labor Market Polarized?. Canadian Journal of Economics, 2015. (with David A. Green)

• The Declining Fortunes of the Young. American Economic Review, Papers & Proceedings, 2014. (with Paul Beaudry and David A. Green)

• Spatial Equilibrium with Unemployment and Wage Bargaining. Journal of Urban Economics, 2014. (with Paul Beaudry and David A. Green)

• A Re-examination of the Social Returns to Human Capital. Labour Economics, 2013.

• Does Industrial Composition Matter for Wages?. Econometrica, 2012. (with Paul Beaudry and David A. Green)