This paper investigates the causal effect of job training on wage rates in the presence of firm heterogeneity. When … job training on wage rates across firms with a weighted-average of the contrast in wages between different firms for a … training on wage rates at each firm which leverage information on firm-specific wages. We illustrate our partial identification …

employment growth. Then, we analyze whether local factors associated in the previous literature with agglomeration economies and …

This paper studies the impact of adult prosecution on recidivism and employment trajectories for adolescent, first …

wage subsidies to firms for accommodating injured workers. Exploiting rich administrative data and a policy change to the … wage subsidy, we show that accommodation rates respond to the subsidy rate and that receipt of accommodation leads to a … significant increase in employment and earnings a year later. To explore welfare implications, we develop and estimate a …

productivity and less dependent on easily observable characteristics or credentials that predict productivity. Consider a wage … show that the wage coefficient on the unobservable productivity variable should rise with time in the labor market and the … wage coefficient on education should fall. We investigate this proposition using panel data on education, the AFQT test …