The Reporter

Economic activity is highly unevenly distributed across space. In the United States, the 2,000 counties with the lowest employment densities account for over 75 percent of land area but less than 12 percent of employment. By contrast, the 100 counties with the highest employment densities make up around 40 percent of employment but less than 2 percent of land area. A fundamental research question in economic geography is the extent to which this uneven distribution of...

Millions of young men and women enter the labor market annually. Over the next 40 years, each of them goes through a unique journey that involves surprises as well as disappointments: searching for the dream career, finding and losing jobs, getting promotions, salary raises, or demotions, and experiencing the recessions and booms of the macro economy. In recent research, I try to understand the nature of the uncertainty that major labor market events generate for workers...