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

We estimate the causal impacts of immigration to U.S. cities on the intergenerational economic mobility of children of U.S.-born parents.Immigration raises the educational attainment and earnings among individuals who grew up in poorer households and reduces the earnings, educational attainment, and employment among those who grew up in more affluent households.On net, immigration diminishes the link between parents' and their children's economic outcomes in the receiving population, and thus in

본 연구는 2022년 시행된 중대재해처벌법이 산업재해에 미친 영향을 분석하였다. 동 법안은 상시근로자 50인 이상 사업장에 우선 적용되므로, 사업장 규모의 차이를 활용한 이벤트스터디와 이중차분법을 적용하였다. 2017~2023년 산업재해현황 자료를 활용한 실증분석 결과, 중대재해처벌법은 사망만인율과 요양재해율에 통계적으로 유의미한 영향을 미치지 않는 것으로 나타났다. 이는 해당 법안의 제정이 적어도 단기적으로는 유의미한 산업재해 감소로 이어지지 않았음을 시사한다.

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