Applied micro is big, but I don't know much detail. Many people do labor, trade, public. The job market was weird this year because I think it was like 1.5 cohorts? Like, some people went after 5 years, others after 6 years and it just coincided like that. Cohorts are normally 20 people. Not sure what you mean by lower tail, but people got all sorts of private sector jobs. But it's a little early to comment, the JM is not over yet, we are still having flyouts.
IO is nonexistent, sadly. Rady has good resources, you can usually work with people from there, many have double affiliation. It's good for behavioral / experimental (that I know of).