Jack Meyer @jackbmeyer.bsky.social · 03/04/2026In last months data the labor force participation gap has dropped another point from -12.3 in February to -13.3 in March, driven mostly by the continued decline in employment among 20-24 year olds. 100
Jack Meyer @jackbmeyer.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Labor force participation for ages 20-24 has been falling consistently for the las 25 years and never saw the same post-Covid rebound as prime-age employment. With AI disruption seemingly concentrated in new hires, the growing gap is concerning. 100
Jack Meyer @jackbmeyer.bsky.social · 01/04/2026In light of the discussion around LLM-augmented application materials contributing to a more relationship-based hiring model, I want to reiterate that I am on the market for data/research/editorial roles, particularly in: innovation, antitrust, trade, and development policy. 110
Jack Meyer @jackbmeyer.bsky.social · 21/01/2026These trends are reinforced by demographics and affordability. Vermont has a shrinking share of young professionals, alongside a widening gap between income and housing costs, making it increasingly difficult to attract and retain early-career workers. 020
Jack Meyer @jackbmeyer.bsky.social · 21/01/2026The problem isn’t captured in headline employment figures. Vermont’s labor market appears tight, with persistently high job vacancies, as labor force participation trends downward pointing to a shrinking pool of available workers rather than strong underlying growth. 120
Jack Meyer @jackbmeyer.bsky.social · 11/01/2026A regional beer market consolidation case study; The Shed was a local brewpub acquired by Otter Creek in 2011, owned by Long Trail as of 2010, acquired by Mass Bay in 2022, merged with Finestkind to form Barrel One Collective in 2024, now the largest craft brewer in New England 000
Jack Meyer @jackbmeyer.bsky.social · 04/01/2026My short review of Two Paths to Prosperity: I don’t find the affirmative case or causal identification of the ‘Great Bifurcation’ very compelling or sufficiently separated from other contemporaneous developments or even the exogenous and geographic factors discussed 100
Jack Meyer @jackbmeyer.bsky.social · 19/12/2025Plausible explanation for the deteriorating economic sentiment puzzle; for entry-level workers the problem hasn’t necessarily been fewer jobs, but difficulty matching to existing vacancies. Now, as the labor market cools, those frictions are starting to appear more in the headline employment numbers 1111
Jack Meyer @jackbmeyer.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Grateful for the opportunity to present my research on the economics of patent disclosure reform to an interdisciplinary audience, many thanks to St Peter’s College for hosting 050
Jack Meyer @jackbmeyer.bsky.social · 26/01/2025Explaining to my coauthor that maybe what we really need to set our paper proposal apart is a novel (and somewhat dubious) instrument 0421
Jack Meyer @jackbmeyer.bsky.social · 17/11/2024How it feels to be included in an econ history starter pack full of actual economic historians 1240
Jack Meyer @jackbmeyer.bsky.social · 10/11/2024“New Institionalist Gavin Newsom Isn’t real, he can’t hurt you” New Institionalist Gavin Newsom: 083
Jack Meyer @jackbmeyer.bsky.social · 14/10/2024The Nobel Committee presenting the prize in economics: 051
Jack Meyer @jackbmeyer.bsky.social · 12/10/2024A few new readings from my first couple of weeks at Oxford 040
Jack Meyer @jackbmeyer.bsky.social · 14/12/2023Finally, I use a series of structural break tests to determine the disproportionate effect of policy changes across different industries, looking at how the repeal of the acts of navigation corresponds with changes in output across key sectors. 9/11 100
Jack Meyer @jackbmeyer.bsky.social · 14/12/2023Second, I employ a series regressions to determine the basic correlation between income inequality and growth across the sectors of interest, eventually using VAR to estimate impulse response to changes in the composition of output. 8/11 100
Jack Meyer @jackbmeyer.bsky.social · 14/12/2023Second, I employ a series regressions to determine the basic correlation between income inequality and growth across the sectors of interest, eventually using VAR to estimate impulse response to changes in the composition of output. 8/11 010
Jack Meyer @jackbmeyer.bsky.social · 14/12/2023First, using social table estimates from 1688 to 1801 I demonstrate that early shifts in relative income across professions was a result of legal distinctions in income claims, with changes resulting from the political displacement of incumbent elites 7/11 210
Jack Meyer @jackbmeyer.bsky.social · 14/12/2023I propose that the rate of within-sector income inequality is a mostly a product of the interaction between the legal institutional environment and a propensity for rent-seeking determined by market structure, factor intensity (particularly capital intensity), and geography. 4/11 110
Jack Meyer @jackbmeyer.bsky.social · 14/12/2023The upward consolidation of income through the 19th century is clearly correlated with increasing industrial output, peaking at the height of the Industrial Revolution in Britain. But what were the unique features of industrial production that contributed to this outcome? 3/11 110
Jack Meyer @jackbmeyer.bsky.social · 14/12/2023In simple terms I argue that elevated income inequality during the Industrial Revolution was in part a result of the shift in sectoral composition of output, with the growing industrial sector being structurally predisposed to elite capture relative to other sectors. 2/11 110
Jack Meyer @jackbmeyer.bsky.social · 14/12/2023In celebration of officially completing my MSc in Economic History, I wanted to share a few highlights from my dissertation on structural transformation as a source of growing income inequality in 18th Century Britain (full paper is linked at the end of the thread.) 1/11 141