documents evidence that social forces influence agents’ preferences and decisions. Those, who are appointed to be impartial … the size and the direction of the bias. The intensity of social pressure as measured by the crowd’s proximity to the field … determines how strongly referees’ decisions are influenced. Not all agents are, however, affected to the same degree by social …

generating the observed heterogeneity in earnings progression by investigating the effects of on-the-job human capital …

In this paper we study job design. Will an organization plan precisely how the job is to be done ex ante, or ask … workers to determine the process as they go? We first model this decision and predict complementarity between these job … industry (e.g., product and technology, organizational change) can explain observed patterns and trends in job design. We then …

determine whether workers who take such jobs rather than regular employment, or the alternative of continued job search …

providing only atypical, even precarious, employment. Yet they may also allow workers to locate suitable job matches. Exploiting … investigate the initial job-finding strategies pursued by the unemployed. Within the narrow window offered by the data, we find …