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The Unexpected Compression : Competition at Work in the Low Wage Labor Market

Autor, David H.; Dube, Arindrajit; McGrew, Annie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Labor market tightness following the height of the Covid-19 pandemic led to an unexpected compression in the US wage distribution that reflects, in part, an increase in labor market competition. Rapid relative wage growth at the bottom of the distribution reduced the college wage premium and...

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Worker Representatives

Budde, Julian; Dohmen, Thomas; Jäger, Simon; Trenkle, Simon - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We study the descriptive and substantive representation of workers through worker representatives, focusing on the selection of German works council representatives and their impact on worker outcomes. Becoming a professional representative leads to substantial wage gains for the elected,...

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Can Fixed-Term Contracts Put Low Skilled Youth on a Better Career Path? Evidence from Spain

García-Pérez, J. Ignacio - 2016

By reducing the commitment made by employers, fixed-term contracts can help low-skilled youth find a first job. However, the long-term impact of fixed-term contracts on these workers' careers may be negative. Using Spanish social security data, we analyze the impact of a large liberalization in...

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Causal Effects in Matching Mechanisms with Strategically Reported Preferences

Bertanha, Marinho; Luflade, Margaux; Mourifié, Ismael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

. Matching theory predicts that students' behavior in Chile should be strategic because they can list only up to eight options …

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Beyond Cobb-Douglas : Flexibly Estimating Matching Functions with Unobserved Matching Efficiency

Lange, Fabian - 2020

the empirical literature estimating the matching function, commonly used to map unemployment and vacancies into hires …. First, we show how to non-parametrically identify the matching function. Second, we estimate the matching function allowing … for unobserved matching efficacy, without imposing the usual independence assumption between matching efficiency and …

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Time-Series Evidence of the Effect of the Minimum Wage on Youth Employment and Unemployment

Brown, Charles - 1981

While previous time series studies have quite consistently found that the minimum wage reduces teenage employment, the extent of this reduction is much less certain. Moreover, because few previous studies report results of more than one specification, the causes of differences in estimated...

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The Effects of Youth Employment : Evidence from New York City Summer Youth Employment Program Lotteries

Gelber, Alexander - 2014

Programs to encourage labor market activity among youth, including public employment programs and wage subsidies like the Work Opportunity Tax Credit, can be supported by three broad rationales. They may: (1) provide contemporaneous income support to participants; (2) encourage work experience...

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What Should I Be When I Grow Up? Occupations and Unemployment over the Life Cycle

Gervais, Martin - 2014

Why is unemployment higher for younger individuals? We address this question in a frictional model of the labor market that features learning about occupational fit. In order to learn the occupation in which they are most productive, workers sample occupations over their careers. Because young...

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Women, Wealth Effects, and Slow Recoveries

Fukui, Masao - 2018

Business cycle recoveries have slowed in recent decades. This slowdown comes entirely from female employment: as women's employment rates converged towards men's over the past half-century, the growth rate of female employment slowed. We ask whether this slowdown in female employment caused the...

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Area Economic Conditions and the Labor Market Outcomes of Young Men in the 1990s Expansion

Freeman, Richard B. - 1999

The current expansion has shattered the length of the previous longest peace-time boom and brought unemployment rates below four percent in 44 percent of metropolitan areas. We estimate the expansion's impact on the labor market outcomes of less-educated men. We find that young men, especially...

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