Professor @LeBow College of Business @DrexelUniv | Economist
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10 Sep 2025
There's a lot of interest about the revisions in the BLS payroll numbers. A lot of this has to do with how the BLS adjusts for birth / death of businesses. How fitting then that our paper on exactly this issue was just published in @JPubEcon! 1/n
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When neighbours stop knocking: The hidden impact of Canada’s 2025 tourism decline on US local labour markets
Andre Kurmann @KurmannAndre @LeBow @DrexelUniv, Etienne Lalé @LaleEtienne @YorkUniversity @iza_bonn, Julien Martin @esg_uqam
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André Kurmann retweeted
30 Aug 2025
If AI and workers were strong complements, what would we see?, joshuagans.substack.com/p/if… Does the latest data tell us AI is a substitute for human work? Nope. Is that comforting? Also nope. My comments on @erikbryn and co. (and @Noahpinion)
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André Kurmann retweeted
9 Sep 2025
The Economics of Education Reform by Roland Fryer wsj.com/opinion/the-economic…
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10 Sep 2025
There's a lot of interest about the revisions in the BLS payroll numbers. A lot of this has to do with how the BLS adjusts for birth / death of businesses. How fitting then that our paper on exactly this issue was just published in @JPubEcon! 1/n
authors.elsevier.com/c/1llCA…
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10 Sep 2025
Long-story short:
- The method works well, even under extreme circumstances.
- But there are also important challenges with regards to data consistency / availability.
- That's why it's not so easy for the BLS to "just use a better method" 10/n
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10 Sep 2025
Nonetheless, we hope our method provides food for thought on how to improve real-time measurement of employment. For all the details, read the paper
@JPubEcon
or at authors.elsevier.com/c/1llCA…. 11/11
#econtwitter @BLS_gov
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André Kurmann retweeted
23 Aug 2025
It seems like there is not enough of a policy response to the fact that, with 57M miles of data, Waymo’s autonomous vehicles experience 85% less serious injuries & 79% less injuries overall than cars with human drivers.
2.4 million are injured & 40k killed in US accidents a year
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1 Aug 2025
What a shame! Erika McEntarfer is a person of highest integrity, an outstanding public servant, and an amazing economist. Why would I know? Because we've been coauthors for years. cnn.com/2025/08/01/business/…
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14 Jul 2025
Excellent op-ed by @davidautor and @gordon_h_hanson on "The Next China Shock". nytimes.com/2025/07/14/opini…
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23 May 2025
Shocked and sad to hear about Marcus' untimely passing. He was an amazing economist, unafraid to go wherever scientific discovery led him.
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19 May 2025
With great sadness, I announce the passing of my co-author and friend, Marcus Hagedorn. His acerbic wit was as sharp as the vision of Toni Kroos. He attacked big research questions like he tackled the mountains of Mallorca on his bike. He will be missed.
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