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Effects of peer groups on the gender-wage gap and life after the MBA : evidence from the random assignment of MBA peers

Thomas, Mallika - 2024

Using the historical random assignment of MBA students to peer groups at a top business school in the United States, I study the effect of the gender composition of a student's peers on the gender pay gap at graduation and long-term labor market outcomes. I find that a 10 percentage point...

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The wage effects of schooling under socialism and in transition : evidence from Romania, 1950 - 2000

Andren, Daniela (contributor); Earle, John S. (contributor); … - 2004

We estimate the impact of schooling on monthly earnings from 1950 to 2000 in Romania. Nearly constant at about 3-4% during the socialist period, the coefficient on schooling in a conventional earnings regression rises steadily during the 1990s, reaching 8.5% by 2000. Our analysis finds little...

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Human capital and Black-white earnings gaps, 1996-2017

Thompson, Owen - 2021

This paper estimates the contribution of human capital to the Black-white earnings gap in three separate samples of men spanning from 1966 through 2017, using both educational attainment and performance on standardized tests to measure human capital. There are three main findings. First, the...

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Computerization of white collar jobs

Dillender, Marcus; Forsythe, Eliza C. - 2019

We investigate the impact of computerization of white-collar jobs on wages and employment. Using online job postings from 2007 and 2010-2016 for office and administrative support (OAS) jobs, we show that when firms adopt new software at the job-title level they increase the skills required of...

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Unobserved heterogeneity and labor market discrimination

Sarzosa, Miguel - 2018

Sexual minorities have historically been subject to many kinds of discrimination. Prejudicial treatment in the labor market could arguably be one of them. Despite that, economic literature has remained mostly silent on the topic. This paper fills that void by leveraging on a novel longitudinal...

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Informed choices: gender gaps in career advice

Gallen, Yana; Wasserman, Melanie - 2021

This paper estimates gender differences in access to informal information regarding the labor market. We conduct a large-scale field experiment in which real college students seek information from 10,000 working professionals about various career paths, and we randomize whether a professional...

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Work organization and high-paying jobs

Nelson, Dylan; Wilmers, Nathan; Zhang, Letian - 2024

complexity and degree of employer control. Technical and tacit knowledge tasks receive higher pay for signaling or developing … changes less for tacit knowledge tasks and very little for adding high-autonomy tasks. We also study which employers provide … these jobs: frontline tacit knowledge tasks are disproportionately in larger, profitable manufacturing and retail firms …

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Gender gaps from labor market shocks

Ivandic, Ria; Lassen, Anne Sophie - 2023

Job loss leads to persistent adverse labor market outcomes, but assessments of gender differences in labor market recovery are lacking. We utilize plant closures in Denmark to estimate gender gaps in labor market outcomes and document that women face an increased risk of unemployment and lose a...

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Jobseekers' beliefs about comparative advantage and (mis)directed search

Kiss, Andrea; Garlick, Robert; Orkin, Kate; Hensel, Lukas - 2023

Worker sorting into tasks and occupations has long been recognized as an important feature of labor markets. But this sorting may be inefficient if jobseekers have inaccurate beliefs about their skills and therefore apply to jobs that do not match their skills. To test this idea, we measure...

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Trade, technology and labour markets : empirical controversies in the light of the Jones model

Pflüger, Michael - 2001

The deterioration of the income and employment position of unskilled workers in the OECD area since the 1980s is a well-documented fact. The debate about the causes of this development is dominated by two competing hypotheses, "North-South Trade" or "globalisation" and technological progress....

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