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Biography

Dr Jonathon Hazell is an assistant professor of economics at the London School of Economics, having received a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a member of the Centre for Economic Performance as well as the Centre for Macroeconomics.

Current areas of research include:

Wage setting: wage rigidity and unemployment dynamics; determinants of wage setting by firms; effect of firms' wage policies on regional and macroeconomic outcomes; wage and price inflation
Productivity growth: the interaction between short run recessions and long run growth; technology adoption; persistence of high unemployment

Publications

Journal article

The slope of the Phillips Curve: evidence from US States

We estimate the slope of the Phillips curve in the cross section of U.S. states using newly constructed state-level price indices for nontradeable goods back to 1978. Our estimates indicate that the slope of the Phillips... Read more...

Jonathon Hazell, Juan Herreno, Emi Nakamura and Jon Steinsson

03 August 2022

Journal article

Unemployment insurance financing as a uniform payroll tax

In the United States, unemployment insurance (UI) is financed by taxes levied on employers. We develop a model to decompose UI taxes into a firing tax component levied on firms that lay off workers, and a uniform payroll... Read more...

Sebastian Graves, Jonathon Hazell, Walker F. Lewis and Christina Patterson

01 May 2022

Journal article

Artificial intelligence and jobs: evidence from online vacancies

We study the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on labor markets using establishment-level data on the near universe of online vacancies in the United States from 2010 onward. There is rapid growth in AI-related vaca... Read more...

Daron Acemoglu, David Autor, Jonathon Hazell and Pascual Restrepo

01 April 2022