expectations and wages, and a significantly positive relationship between optimistic bias in job finding expectations and … search and matching model of the labor market. Removing the biases could substantially increase wages and expected lifetime … income in East Germany. The bias difference in labor market expectations explains part of the East-West German wage gap. …

This paper examines how and why returning to education fosters recovery from negative employment shocks among high … school dropouts. High school dropout remains a problem, particularly as employment is increasingly skilled over time …

connections on hiring probabilities and re-employment outcomes of displaced workers in Portugal. We rely on rich matched employer …-level wages and enjoy greater job security although these advantages disappear over time. …

self-employment and paid-employment. Using Spanish administrative data, we characterize the distribution and dynamics of … earnings and document lower and less dispersed earnings in self-employment. We consider alternative hypotheses and highlight … the role of lower unemployment risk in self-employment. We decompose earnings risk dynamics by estimating a life …

We analyze the effect of exposure to international trade on earnings and employment of U.S. workers from 1992 through … manufacturing. Earnings losses are larger for individuals with low initial wages, low initial tenure, and low attachment to the … adjustment costs that are highly unevenly distributed across workers according to their skill levels and conditions of employment …

. We solve for the labor market equilibrium, finding that wages increase with job security for at least all firms in the … distribution, workers can take wage cuts to move to more stable employment. …

analyses of a uniform minimum wage. The model with worker and firm heterogeneity does not restrict the sign of employment … opportunity cost of employment. …

part-time and full-time employment after 2002 essentially resulted from changes in registered and unregistered unemployment … unemployment reforms in explaining changes in unemployment, non-participation and part-time employment. …

panel, we investigate to what extent personality traits, human capital, and the employment history influence the start … the gender difference. In contrast, the Big Five model and the current employment state have effects in the opposite … employment status as men. …

lower the number of fintech startups in a country. Overall, the evidence suggests that fintech startup formation need not be …