We allow for differential effects of physical appearance across the wage distribution using a technique traditionally used in the finance literature. We find an average beauty premium of 2%–4% for women, which is concentrated at the bottom of the wage distribution. The average beauty premium...

This paper estimates the employer-size wage effect on returns to unobservable skills and measured human capital variables using a novel methodology that allows us to estimate a high number of interactions between unobserved effects and firm size. Our results show that in large firms, returns to...

We examine whether subjective information routinely collected in general surveys can be used to construct a single measure of underlying match quality which helps test matching models and predict labour market outcomes of workers.

We demonstrate that Big-Five personality traits are stable for working-age adults over a four-year period. Mean population changes are small and constant across age groups. Intra-individual changes are generally unrelated to adverse life events and are not economically meaningful.

This paper investigates how to test for nonresponse selection bias in wage functions induced by missing income information. We suggest an “easy-to-implement” approach which requires information on interviewer IDs and the interview date rather than hard-to-get interviewer characteristics.

I study the internal organization of firms using Swedish occupation data. The empirical patterns match the theoretical predictions of  Caliendo and Rossi-Hansberg (2012) and are similar to the patterns observed in French data by  Caliendo et al. (2012).