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setting wages and determining work amenities. In the administrative data, we causally examine through which channels unions … depending on the age at which workers enroll. In addition, we show that focusing on a restricted set of outcomes, such as wages …
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This paper studies the cyclical behaviour of earnings risk and career changes. We document that the procyclical … skewness of the earnings growth distribution arises mostly from the earnings changes of employer and occupation switchers. To … uncover their relative importance in driving cyclical earnings changes and whether this arises from changes in the returns to …
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observe significant heterogeneity among countries in terms of gender gaps in promotions and wages, but the gaps that exist …
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This paper establishes the presence of a substantial gender gap in the relationship between state legislature service and the subsequent pursuit of a Congressional career. The empirical approach uses a sample of mixed-gender elections to compare the differential political career progression of...
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This paper estimates gender differences in access to informal information regarding the labor market. We conduct a large-scale field experiment in which real college students seek information from 10,000 working professionals about various career paths, and we randomize whether a professional...
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product market competition. When the intensity of product market competition increases, hirings and wages for female managers …
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probability of non-employment or lower earnings growth than unaffected workers. Rather, firms that adopt T&O offer routine workers … risk that they permanently withdraw from the labor market and reduces their earnings, regardless of the tasks they …
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How much does your neighbor impact your test scores and career? In this paper, we examine how an observable characteristic of same-age neighbors—their gender—affects a variety of high school and university outcomes. We exploit randomness in the gender composition of local cohorts at birth...
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the focal worker is put on a better earnings trajectory than otherwise when a larger share of his competitors take leave … because of the reform. The focal worker’s own absolute leave, however, has no direct effect on his earnings path as long as …
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This paper investigates the impact of voter support on the representation of women in the political profession. The empirical analysis exploits two-stage elections in the United States and Italy to hold the selection of candidates constant. In two-stage elections, candidates are admitted to the...
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