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Lab Labor : What Can Labor Economists Learn from the Lab?
Charness, Gary - 2010
understanding of principal-agent interactions, social preferences, union-firm bargaining, arbitration, gender differentials …
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Unemployment Crises
Petrosky-Nadeau, Nicolas - 2013
A search and matching model, when calibrated to the mean and volatility of unemployment in the postwar sample, can potentially explain the large unemployment dynamics in the Great Depression. The limited response of wages to labor market conditions from credible bargaining and the congestion...
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Population Aging, Age Discrimination, and Age Discrimination Protections at the 50th Anniversary of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act
Button, Patrick - 2019
This paper discusses population aging, increased participation of seniors in the labor force in the United States (and reasons for this), and how these trends are making the struggles of older workers in the labor market increasingly relevant. Evidence examining whether age discrimination is a...
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Affirmative Action and Pre-College Human Capital
Akhtari, Mitra; Bau, Natalie; Laliberté, Jean-William - 2022
Racial affirmative action policies are widespread in college admissions. Yet, evidence on their effects before college is limited. Using four data sets, we study a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that reinstated affirmative action in three states. Using nationwide SAT data for...
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Social Experiments in the Labor Market
Rothstein, Jesse - 2016
Large-scale social experiments were pioneered in labor economics, and are the basis for much of what we know about topics ranging from the effect of job training to incentives for job search to labor supply responses to taxation. Random assignment has provided a powerful solution to selection...
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Negotiator Behavior Under Arbitration
Bloom, David E.; Cavanagh, Christopher L. - 2022
The emerging empirical literature on the economics of arbitration has focused primarily on the behavior of arbitrators … under alternative forms of arbitration. This article suggests that it is natural for empirical economists to now expand … behavior are discussed: (1) the decision to settle a dispute voluntarily or to proceed to arbitration; (2) the strategy for …
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Experimental Research on Labor Market Discrimination
Neumark, David - 2016
Understanding whether labor market discrimination explains inferior labor market outcomes for many groups has drawn the attention of labor economists for decades – at least since the publication of Gary Becker's The Economics of Discrimination in 1957. The decades of research on discrimination...
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Pareto Inefficiency of Market Economies : Search and Efficiency Wage Models
Greenwald, Bruce C. N. - 2007
This paper shows that market economies with search and in which wages are affected by efficiency wage considerations are not constrained Pareto efficient. Wages are not set at Pareto efficient levels, nor is the level of employment (unemployment) Pareto efficient. We identify the nature of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777168
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Job Seekers' Perceptions and Employment Prospects : Heterogeneity, Duration Dependence and Bias
Mueller, Andreas I. - 2018
This paper analyses job seekers' perceptions and their relationship to unemployment outcomes to study heterogeneity and duration dependence in both perceived and actual job finding. Using longitudinal data from two comprehensive surveys, we document that elicited beliefs are (1) strongly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012907446
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Empirical Matching Functions : Estimation and Interpretation Using Disaggregate Data
Anderson, Patricia M.; Burgess, Simon M. - 2021
In this paper, we estimate matching functions using disaggregate data. We find strong support for the matching approach, with most specifications implying slightly increasing returns to scale. This finding does not appear to arise from our inclusion of additional controls or from the level of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013244376