$65,000
The long-run impact of Temporary Disability Insurance on SSDI claims, earnings stability, and labor force participation
2018
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Michael Carr
Associate Professor of Economics
University of Massachusetts, Boston
Grantees
Michael Carr is an associate professor in the Department of Economics and research fellow at the Center for Social Policy at the University of Massachusetts Boston. His research focus is on the relationship between inequality, earnings dynamics, and public supports.
His recent work focuses on the differential effects of minimum wage changes on individuals with and without public supports, and the relationship between rising inequality and trends in short-run earnings instability and long-run earnings mobility.
He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and his B.A. in economics from Kalamazoo College.
Funded Research
$40,000
Long-run earnings mobility and earnings inequality: Evidence from SIPP linked administrative earnings data
2015
Authored by Michael Carr
Policy
Earnings instability and mobility over our working lives: Improving short- and long-term economic well-being for U.S. workers (opens in a new tab)
Blog FEB 18, 2020
By: Emily Wiemers, Michael Carr
Economic Equity & Opportunity
Household Economic Security
Labor, Wages & Worker Power
Michael Carr’s Working Papers
Academic
The decline in lifetime earnings mobility in the U.S.: Evidence from survey-linked administrative data (opens in a new tab)
Working Papers MAY 3, 2016
By: Michael D. Carr, Emily E. Wiemers
Economic Equity & Opportunity
Labor, Wages & Worker Power
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