Hee-pyo Jo

Abstract Immigrants to the United States live disproportionately in metropolitan areas where nominal wages are high, but real wages are low. This sorting behavior may be due to preferences toward certain quality‐of‐life amenities. Relative to U.S.‐born inter‐state migrants, immigrants accept lower real wages to locate in cities that are coastal, larger, and offer deeper immigrant networks. They sort toward cities that are hillier and also larger and networked. Immigrants come more from coastal,

The authors study the effect of the minimum wage on the employment outcomes and Social Security claiming of older US workers from 1983 to 2016. The probability of work at or near the minimum wage increases substantially near retirement, and previous researchers and policies suggest that older workers may be particularly vulnerable to any disemployment effects of the minimum wage. Results show no evidence that the minimum wage causes earlier retirements. Instead, estimates suggest that higher min

Abstract I analyze the effects of immigration enforcement by the US Border Patrol on the sorting and commuting patterns of Hispanics. Using a regression discontinuity design based on a 100‐Mile Border Zone, which permits Border Patrol agents to conduct warrantless searches within 100 air miles of the US border, I find that the share of Hispanics in southwestern states increases outside the Border Zone. This sorting effect disappears, however, when focusing on within‐county differences in shares

ABSTRACT We estimate the quality of life (QOL) across Korean cities and decompose the cross‐sectional and temporal variations in QOL through amenities. Using administrative housing transaction data, a city's revealed‐preference QOL is estimated from its cost of living relative to its wage level. Seoul, the biggest city in Korea, had a significantly high QOL in 2019, and its QOL continuously increased from 2015 to 2019. Based on a hedonic framework, households are willing to pay more for denser,

Abstract This study analyzes the impact of public housing on adjacent neighborhoods, focusing on their consumption levels and the population share of individuals aged 20–59 years. Using administrative data on public housing and credit card usage data with detailed geography, we examine the heterogeneous effects of two types of public housing: buy‐to‐rent and build‐to‐rent. Buy‐to‐rent housing exhibits no significant effects on neighborhoods within its 500‐m radius. In contrast, build‐to‐rent hou

Supplemental material, ILRR_845861_Supplemental_Online_Appendix for Minimum Wages and Retirement by Heepyung Cho and Mark Borgschulte in ILR Review

The first essay analyzes how allowing undocumented immigrants to legally obtain driver's licenses shifts commuting patterns, increases job accessibility, and improves labor market outcomes. Using state- and nativity-level variation in reforms, I show that granting driving privileges to undocumented immigrants increases vehicle ownership and the probability of car commute by 2.5 percentage points. This improvement in accessibility leads to a 0.8 percentage point increase in the employment rate fo

Survey refusal in the Current Population Survey (CPS) has tripled over the last decade.This rise coincides with the emergence of rhetoric, largely from the political right, questioning the accuracy and integrity of government statistics.We examine how support for the Tea Party and the Republican party have affected CPS refusal rates and whether households are more likely to participate in the survey when their preferred political party holds the White House.Using state and metro vote shares or a