contrast, signaling leadership skills has no effect. Last, we consider the role of labor market competition. Companies facing … competition in the labor market, measured by the number of competitors advertising similar positions, are 56 to 66% less likely to … novel evidence that soft skills and labor market competition both play an important role in understanding hiring …

prevented injury per year. -- Compensating wage differentials ; value of a statistical injury ; risk measurement …

their framework to consider measurement error due to the use of proxy/representative respondents. First, we document a … reduction in the gender gap can be smaller than what the estimates without taking into account the measurement error might … suggest. We conclude that a careful validation study would be necessary to ascertain the magnitude of the spurious measurement …

the measurement of discrimination across job assignments. We extend the model to explain cross-assignment discrimination …

in response to increased import competition from developing countries. Using employer-employee matched data for the … ICT intensive industries in response to stronger import competition through an increase in the relative demand for …

late 1970s and early 1980s. These changes were concurrent with a rapid rise in import competition from Japan. We assess the …, and college educated production workers. We find no evidence the heterogeneous effects of import competition can be …