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Prior research, primarily based on lab experiments, suggests that females might be more averse to competition than males and could be more inclined towards collaboration, instead. Were these findings to generalize to adults across the workforce, there could be profound implications for...
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What is the impact of the minimum wage on the college wage premium? I show that job-ladder models imply that the effect should be small on impact---raising only the wages of workers bound by the minimum wage---and grow over time as workers slowly move up the job ladder. Guided by my theory, I...
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We document the sources behind the costs of job loss over the business cycle using administrative data from Germany. Losses in annual earnings after displacement are large, persistent, and highly cyclical, nearly doubling in size during downturns. A large part of the long-term earnings losses...
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We study how individual political views shape firm behavior and labor market outcomes. Using new micro-data on the … micro-data and an event study are consistent with a discrimination channel. Second, we conduct an incentivized resume rating … party. Third, we conduct representative large- scale surveys of owners and workers revealing that labor market participants …
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This paper provides an overview of what has happened over the past fifty years for women as they worked to break through professional barriers in economics, policy, and institutional leadership. We chart the progress of women in higher education at the college level and beyond and then go on to...
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We study the impact of AI on labor markets, using establishment level data on vacancies with detailed occupational … not yet having detectable aggregate labor market consequences …
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firms earn higher pay at all earnings levels. Second, this pay-productivity relationship strengthens with seniority …
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markets who lost their jobs due to a firm closure. We define a labor market as the Commuting Zone*industry pair in the quarter …Economists have long hypothesized that large and thick labor markets facilitate the matching between workers and firms …
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We study the effects of the unionization of faculty at Canadian universities from 1970-2022 using an event-study design. Using administrative data which covers the full universe of faculty salaries, we find strong evidence that unionization leads to both average salary gains and compression of...
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Ways of leaving the labor force has been an understudied aspect of labor market outcomes. Labor market institutions … career jobs to full retirement may contribute to pre- and post-retirement well-being. Previous investigations of retirement …
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