I am a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Economics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. I am also a Research Associate at the Centre for Economic Performance at LSE. I will be joining King's Business School in September 2025. Here is my CV.
Research Interests
Labor Economics, Urban Economics
Publications
Monopsony and the Wage Effects of Migration (with Alan Manning)
Economic Journal (forthcoming)
The Contribution of Immigration to Local Labor Market Adjustment
Journal of Labor Economics (forthcoming)
Education and Geographical Mobility: The Role of the Job Surplus
AEJ Economic Policy, 16(4), 2024
Old CEP Discussion Paper (2015) with endogenous wages
Article on LSE's USAPP blog
The Persistence of Local Joblessness (with Alan Manning)
American Economic Review, 108(7), 2018
Article on LSE's USAPP blog
Podcast on The Ballpark
Do Households Use Homeownership to Insure Themselves? Evidence Across US Cities (with Jonathan Halket)
Quantitative Economics, 5(3), 2014
Working Papers
Immigration, Monopsony and the Distribution of Firm Pay (with Jan Stuhler)
Immigration, Local Crowd-Out and Labor Market Effects
Revision requested at Journal of Labor Economics
Previously circulated as "Immigration, Local Crowd-Out and Undercoverage Bias"
Commuting, Migration and Local Joblessness (with Alan Manning)
Revision requested at Journal of the European Economic Association
The Immigration Surplus Revisited (with Alan Manning)
Revision requested at Economic Journal
Heterogeneous Mobility in Dynamic Labor Market Equilibrium (with Mike Elsby and Axel Gottfries)
Internal Pay Equity and the Quantity-Quality Trade-Off in Hiring (with Shmuel San)
The Impact of Migration in a Monopsonistic Labor Market: Theoretical Insights (2017)
Policy Papers
Fiscal Sustainability of an Independent Scotland (with Rowena Crawford and Gemma Tetlow)
Institute for Fiscal Studies, 2013
Edinburgh launch covered by all major news outlets
The UK’s Public Finances in the Long Run: The IFS Model (with Rowena Crawford and Gemma Tetlow)
IFS Working Paper W13/29
Contact Details
Email: michael.amior(at)mail.huji.ac.il
Address: Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem 91905, Israel