Dr. Alicia Sasser Modestino

@SasserModestino

Associate Professor at Northeastern University researching public policy issues affecting labor, housing, and health care markets. All ideas are my own.

Boston, MA
Joined November 2012

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    Dec 2

    LAST CALL! We are actively reviewing applications & will meet next week to select the pool for first round interviews in December! AEA signals much appreciated - especially from candidates with strong preferences for Boston and/or policy impact!

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  2. 18 hours ago

    ⁩ nails it. Early retirements not lazy young people account for 90% of those who left labor market over last two years. Narratives on what has been called “The Great Resignation” is really ab retirements.

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  3. Come join ! We're looking for our next director to help us deepen the impact of our innovative, engaged, and interdisciplinary approaches to scholarship and practice in public policy and urban affairs. Learn more about the role here:

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  4. Dec 16

    WAPPP Co-Director Hannah Riley Bowles explains how businesswomen can be disadvantaged by their social networks and face Prove-It-Again bias. Their performance is continuously questioned, and they feel they have to repeatedly prove themselves. Read more:

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  5. Dec 16

    This is perhaps the best argument for widely available rapid tests

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  6. Dec 14

    This is because as much as 2/3 of the changes were more permanent - meaning that some unemployed workers may no longer qualify for their previous jobs - particularly in occupations where innovation drives new software skills that tend to be "sticky"

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  7. Dec 14

    About 1/3 of the changes in skill requirements during the Great Recession were opportunistic & reversed themselves as the labor market recovered - like what is happening in many jobs right now. Training programs should make use of this real-time data

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  8. Dec 14

    But as the labor market tightens, workers become scarce so employers start dropping some skill requirements such as education and years of experience- even actual baseline, specialized, and software skills

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  9. Dec 14

    When the labor market is weak employers become opportunistic & raise skill requirements to hire the best possible candidate, often asking for a college degree or more years of experience Why? Because they can get more skilled workers at a discount...

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  10. Dec 14

    This is a great example of our prior research that used data to document upskilling and downskilling over the previous business cycle during the Great Recession

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  11. Dec 14

    "Companies often worry that loosening job requirements will create a perception among customers or employees that businesses are lowering standards, said Alicia Sasser Modestino, a labor economist at Northeastern University."

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  12. Dec 14

    Thanks to & all of our many coalition partners (too many to list here!) for your letters of support and contributions to this proposal - let’s get to work!

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  13. Dec 11

    Important insights from the amazing Claudia Goldin : Work-life flexibility has always carried a cost in lower pay and lesser career prospects. But the pandemic might have permanently shrunk that penalty. via

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  14. Dec 10

    3/3 Ongoing studies, such as this pilot project led by looking incentives to encourage patients to return unused opioids, are evaluating further strategies to reduce opioid addiction in the US:

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  15. Dec 9

    Personal reminder that CHILDCARE=INFRASTRUCTURE Sitter just called to say she has been exposed to COVID & can’t pick up @ school today Daughter is vaxxed but not yet immune Yet some are still wondering why LFP for women drops with the start of each school year & COVID wave

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  16. Dec 8
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  17. Dec 8

    Great thread on worker reallocation in California. Rare to have data on recalls, so useful to know recall rates increased, consistent with indirect evidence.

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  18. Dec 8

    JOLTS report for October shows a 6.9% job vacancy rate and a 4.6% unemp rate (down to 4.2% in November)...hard to argue that there is no worker shortage (at current wages) and that it is driving worker compensation higher.

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  19. "During the mayoral campaign, Wu released a research paper about fare-free bus service pilot programs in partnership with Northeastern University’s ." Read the full piece via the .

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  20. Dec 6

    Glad to be part of campus community mutual aid & reinvigorated to keep working for a world where everyone has access to what they need to thrive

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  21. Dec 6

    One of the added bonuses of talking with is her top notch crew from booking producers Lauren Boone and Virginia Moubray to the quick thinking female tech in the control room today - always a pleasure working with these women!

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