; labor market behavior ; transition ; state dependence …

took place and trace back the development of wage labor within agriculture, industry and service sector. In particular, the …-industrial time the social organization of work occurred in various forms and that wage labor was rather a rare phenomenon in the … beginning of the 19th century. Hence, a widespread and functioning labor market cannot be identified at that time. Rudimentary …

We examine the efficiency properties of labor taxation. A spatial model of an economy is introduced whose key feature … is a new approach to restricted labor mobility. We characterize the efficient allocation of labor and properties of a … decentralized equilibrium. An efficient allocation of labor can be compatible with marginal productivity differentials stemming from …

Total Factor Productivity) to rich countries – offsetting efficiency gains from the spatial reallocation of labor from low …

In two experiments, we examine the effects of employer reputation in an online labor market (Amazon Mechanical Turk) in …

-plant heterogeneity points to a local labor supply channel where particularly plants utilizing low-wage, female, blue-collar workers are … impacted. Consistent with a blue-collar labor supply shock, the results show a positive impact on average blue-collar wages and …

The past several decades have witnessed a rebirth of global labor mobility. Workers have begun to move between …

local non-farm employment opportunities interacting with barriers to labor mobility for women but not men. …