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Keeping Up Appearances : An Experimental Investigation of Relative Rank Signaling

Dupas, Pascaline; Fafchamps, Marcel; Hernandez-Nunez, Laura - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We investigate the potential welfare cost of relative rank considerations using a series of vignettes and lab-in-the-field experiments with over 2,000 individuals in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. We show that: (1) individuals judged to be of a lower rank are perceived as more likely to be sidelined from...

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Monitoring Harassment in Organizations

Boudreau, Laura; Chassang, Sylvain; Gonzalez-Torres, Ada; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We evaluate secure survey methods designed for the ongoing monitoring of harassment in organizations. We use the resulting data to answer policy relevant questions about the nature of harassment: How prevalent is it? What share of managers is responsible for the misbehavior? How isolated are its...

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50 Years of Breakthroughs and Barriers : Women in Economics, Policy, and Leadership

Blau, Francine D.; Lynch, Lisa M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

-based discrimination in federally funded educational programs. The data paint a picture of considerable progress but also persistent …

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Gender Reveals in the Labor Market : Evidence on Gender Signaling and Statistical Discrimination in an Online Health Care Market

He, Haoran; Neumark, David; Weng, Qian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

A recent approach to testing for customer statistical discrimination involves studying price gaps between sellers from … a similar setting, testing for statistical discrimination against female doctors in an online health care market. But we … show that this kind of analysis does not provide evidence on statistical discrimination in this setting because doctors …

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Skill Depreciation during Unemployment : Evidence from Panel Data

Cohen, Jonathan P.; Johnston, Andrew; Lindner, Attila - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We use a panel of survey responses linked to administrative data in Germany to measure the depreciation of skills while workers are unemployed. Both the reemployment hazard rate and reemployment earnings steadily fall with unemployment duration, and indicators of depression and loneliness rise...

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Beyond Racial Attitudes : The Role of Outside Options in the Dynamics of White Flight

Blair, Peter Q. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

When the fraction of minorities in a neighborhood exceeds the tipping point white flight accelerates. I develop a revealed-preference method to estimate the tipping points of 38,000 census tracts and the preferences of households for minority neighbors in the 123 Metropolitan Statistical Areas...

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The Costs of Job Displacement over the Business Cycle and Its Sources : Evidence from Germany

Schmieder, Johannes; Wachter, Till von; Heining, Jörg - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

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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The Job Ladder : Inflation vs. Reallocation

Moscarini, Giuseppe; Postel-Vinay, Fabien - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We introduce on-the-job search frictions in an otherwise standard monetary DSGE New-Keynesian model. Heterogeneity in productivity across jobs gives rise to a job ladder. Firms Bertrand-compete for employed workers according to the Sequential Auctions protocol of Postel-Vinay and Robin (2002)....

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The Effect of Immigration Policy on Founding Location Choice : Evidence from Canada's Start-up Visa Program

Lee, Saerom; Glennon, Britta - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

To spur entrepreneurship and economic growth, an increasing number of countries have introduced immigration policies that provide visas to skilled entrepreneurs. This paper investigates whether these policies influence the founding location choice of immigrant founders, by leveraging the...

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Wellbeing, Expectations and Unemployment in Europe

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We find expectations are more sensitive to economic growth than traditional wellbeing metrics. We examine Eurobarometer micro data from 1973-2023 on movements in life satisfaction along with data from 1995-2022 on five expectations variables on and individual's life and their financial and job...

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