David Wiczer

I am an economist at the New York Fed, Research Fellow at the IZA, and an Associate Editor at the European Economic Review.

I concentrate primarily on macroeconomics and labor economics. For my life story in easily digestible sentence fragments, see my CV .

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WORKING PAPERS

Cyclical Earnings, Careers and Employment Transitions Review of Economic Studies (R&R) with Carlos Carrillo Tudela & Ludo Visschers Paper, IZA DP, Slides Press: Faculti

Stimulus through Insurance: The Marginal Propensity to Repay Debt Review of Economic Studies (R&R) with Gizem Kosar, Davide Melcangi & Laura Pilossoph. Paper Appendix NBER WP Slides, Press: Washington Post Marketplace Liberty Street Faculti Newsday

Firm Exit and Liquidity: Evidence from the Great Recession (submitted) with Fernando Leibovici. Paper STL Fed WP

Monetary Policy and Wage Inequality: The Labour Mobility Channel (submitted) with Ester Faia, Ekaterina Shabalina CEPR DP

The Effect of Unemployment Insurance Eligibility in Equilibrium with Ying Chao & Ben Griffy. Paper Slides

The Churn Ladder with Larry F Warren Paper Slides

Estimating Demand Shocks from Foot Traffic (submitted) with Marina Azzimonti and Yang Xuan. Paper

PUBLICATIONS

The Alpha, Beta and Gamma of the Labor Market Journal of Monetary Economics CRN (2025) with Victoria Gregory & Guido Menzio. Paper, NBER WP Slides Press: Marginal Revolution

Earnings Growth, Job Flows and Churn, Journal of Monetary Economics (2023), with Satoshi Tanaka & Larry F Warren Paper Slides

Where have all the workers gone? Labour Economics (2022), with Eliza Forsythe, Lisa Kahn & Fabian Lange. Paper (Previous version: NBER WP Slides) Press: Washington Post Economic Report of the President

Labor Demand in the Time of COVID-19: Evidence from vacancy postings and UI claims, Journal of Public Economics (2020), with Eliza Forsythe, Lisa Kahn and Fabian Lange Paper NBER WP Press: WSJ Slate Bloomberg

Pandemic Recession: L- or V-Shaped?, MPLS Fed Quarterly Review (2020), with Victoria Gregory & Guido Menzio. Paper NBER WP Press: MarketPlace, MarketWatch, Brookings

Multidimensional Skill Mismatch, AEJ: Macroeconomics (2020), with Fatih Guvenen, Burhan Kuruscu & Satoshi Tanaka. Paper Slides Incl. Appendix Press: Bloomberg, Washington Post

Network Search: Climbing the Job Ladder Faster, International Economic Review (2019), with Marcelo A Arbex & Dennis O'Dea. Paper Press: WSJ

Occupational Hazards and Social Disability Insurance, Journal of Monetary Economics (2018), with Amanda M Michaud. Paper Slides

Vocational Considerations and Trends in Social Security Disability, Journal of the Economics of Aging (2018), with Amanda M Michaud & Jaeger Nelson. Paper

WORK IN PROGRESS

The Place-based Redistribution of Disability Insurance with Amanda M Michaud and Timothy J Moore Slides, Press: Economy Matters Podcast

Inferring Labor Demand with Eliza Forsythe, Lisa Kahn & Fabian Lange

Search Frictions and Structural Change with Makoto Nakajima, Stephen L Parente and Hongxia Zhang

The Disability Option: Labor Market Dynamics with Economic and Health Risks with Amanda M Michaud Paper

Long Term Unemployment: Attached and Mismatched? Paper

SHORT PIECES

Heterogeneous Effects of Monetary Policy on Job Flows Across Income, Race, Gender and Age American Economic Assoc P&P (2024), with Ester Faia and Ekaterina Shabalina Paper

Understanding the Geographic Variation in Social Security Disability Insurance, NBER DRC Papers (2019), with Amanda M Michaud and Timothy J Moore. Paper

The Relationship between Social Security Disability Insurance Wait Times and Applications , NBER DRC Papers (2019), with Amanda M Michaud and Timothy J Moore. Paper

Duration Dependence and Composition in Unemployment Spells, St Louis Fed REVIEW (2016), with James D Eubanks. Paper

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