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Is There a Gender Wage Gap in Online Labor Markets? Evidence from Over 250,000 Projects and 2.5 Million Wage Bill Proposals

Gomez-Herrera, Estrella - 2019

final agreement between employers and successful candidates. Using Heckman and OLS estimation methods we provide empirical …

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Vacancy Durations and Entry Wages : Evidence from Linked Vacancy-Employer-Employee Data

Kettemann, Andreas - 2019

This paper explores the relationship between the duration of a vacancy and the starting wage of a new job, using … establishment growth, vacancy filling and entry wages, we calibrate a model with directed search and ex-ante heterogeneous workers … response of vacancy filling to firm-level wages. We discuss the implications of this finding as well as potential resolutions …

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Meta-Analysis of Present-Bias Estimation Using Convex Time Budgets

Imai, Taisuke - 2019

We examine 220 estimates of the present-bias parameter from 28 articles using the Convex Time Budget protocol. The literature shows that people are on average present biased, but the estimates exhibit substantial heterogeneity across studies. There is evidence of modest selective reporting in...

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Naturalization and Labor Market Performance of Immigrants in Germany

Riphahn, Regina T. - 2018

exploit a reform of naturalization rules in an instrumental variable estimation. In our sample of recent immigrants, linear …

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Reservation Wages and Labor Supply

Kesternich, Iris - 2020

Survey measures of the reservation wage reflect both the consumption-leisure trade-off and job search concerns (the arrival rate of job offers and the wage distribution). We examine what a survey measure of the reservation wage reveals about labor supply when search concerns are absent. To this...

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Organised Labour, Labour Market Imperfections, and Employer Wage Premia

Dobbelaere, Sabien; Hirsch, Boris; Müller, Steffen; … - 2021

exception. Wage mark-downs, that is wages below the marginal revenue product of labour rooted in employers’ monopsony power, are … and intensity of wage mark-downs whereas the opposite holds for wage mark-ups, that is wages above the marginal revenue …

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Cyclical Earnings, Career and Employment Transitions

Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Visschers, Ludo; Wiczer, David - 2022

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...

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Technological and Organizational Change and the Careers of Workers

Battisti, Michele; Dustmann, Christian; Schonberg, Uta - 2022

This paper investigates the effects of technological and organizational change (T&O) on jobs and workers. We show that although T&O reduces firm demand for routine relative to abstract task-based jobs, affected workers do not face higher probability of non-employment or lower earnings growth...

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Labor in the Boardroom

Jäger, Simon - 2019

We estimate the effects of a mandate allocating a third of corporate board seats to workers (shared governance). We study a reform in Germany that abruptly abolished this mandate for certain firms incorporated after August 1994 but locked it in for the older cohorts. In sharp contrast to the...

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The Effects of Financial Aid on Graduation and Labor Market Outcomes : New Evidence from Matched Education-Labor Data

Rattini, Veronica - 2022

Financial aid decreases the cost of acquiring additional education. By using Italian administrative and survey data on financial aid recipients and exploiting sharp discontinuities in the amount of aid received, this paper identifies the causal effect of aid generosity on college performance and...

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