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. Here is my CV.
Research Interests
Labor Economics, Urban Economics
Publications
Education and Geographical Mobility: The Role of the Job Surplus
AEJ Economic Policy (forthcoming)
Old CEP Discussion Paper (2015) with endogenous wages
Article on LSE's USAPP blog
The Contribution of Immigration to Local Labor Market Adjustment
Journal of Labor Economics (forthcoming)
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, Local Crowd-Out and Labor Market Effects
Previously circulated as "Immigration, Local Crowd-Out and Undercoverage Bias"
Commuting, Migration and Local Joblessness (with Alan Manning)
The Immigration Surplus Revisited (with Alan Manning)
Monopsony and the Wage Effects of Migration (with Alan Manning)
Immigration, Monopsony and the Distribution of Firm Pay (with Jan Stuhler)
The Impact of Migration in a Monopsonistic Labor Market: Theoretical Insights (2017)
Work in Progress
Spatial Hysteresis (with Mike Elsby and Axel Gottfries)
Policy Papers
Fiscal Sustainability of an Independent Scotland (with Rowena Crawford and Gemma Tetlow)
Institute for Fiscal Studies
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