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The Costs of Job Displacement over the Business Cycle and Its Sources : Evidence from Germany
Schmieder, Johannes; Wachter, Till von; Heining, Jörg - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We document the sources behind the costs of job loss over the business cycle using administrative data from Germany. Losses in annual earnings after displacement are large, persistent, and highly cyclical, nearly doubling in size during downturns. A large part of the long-term earnings losses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334381
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Moral Hazard and Unemployment in Competitive Equilibrium
Rey, Patrick; Stiglitz, Joseph E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
, that frictions (sand-in-the-wheels) may decrease unemployment and that the equilibrium is determined by two simple …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014635663
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The Missing Link? Using LinkedIn Data to Measure Race, Ethnic, and Gender Differences in Employment Outcomes at Individual Companies
Berry, Alexander; Maloney, Elizabeth M.; Neumark, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Stronger enforcement of discrimination laws can help to reduce disparities in economic outcomes with respect to race …, ethnicity, and gender in the United States. However, the data necessary to detect possible discrimination and to act to counter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512147
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The relative labour market performance of former international students : evidence from the Canadian National Graduates Survey
Chen, Zong Jia; Skuterud, Mikal - 2017
immigrants. By 2014, international students accounted for 10% of graduates from Canadian postsecondary institutions, up from 3 … Canadian-born-and-educated (CBE) and foreign-born-and-educated (FBE) counterparts. We find that FISs outperform FBE immigrants … and new immigrants without a commensurate increase in their supply. …
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Attrition from Administrative Data : Problems and Solutions with an Application to Postsecondary Education
Foote, Andrew; Stange, Kevin M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper examines the bias arising from individuals' migration from administrative outcome data, with a focus on the labor market consequences of postsecondary education. We find that out-of-state migration is particularly problematic for high-earners, flagship graduates, and certain majors....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334449
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The labor market returns to unobserved skills : evidence from a gender quota
Moeeni, Safoura; Wei, Feng - 2022
We estimate the effects of unobserved skills on labor market outcomes by investigating a change in the distribution of unobserved skills. Among people with the same levels of observed skills such as education and work experience, there are still disparities in labor market outcomes. since...
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Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions
Arcidiacono, Peter - 2020
Detecting racial discrimination using observational data is challenging because of the presence of unobservables that … may be correlated with race. Using data made public in the SFFA v. Harvard case, we estimate discrimination in a setting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482025
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The gender wage gap in Myanmar : adding insult to injury?
Hansen, Henrik; Rand, John; Ngu Wah Win - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012817345
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The Limits of Educational Attainment in Mitigating Occupational Segregation Between Black and White Workers
Jardina, Ashley; Blair, Peter Q.; Heck, Justin; Debroy, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Past work has documented significant occupational segregation between Black and white workers in the U.S. labor force. Little work, however, has examined racial occupational segregation in recent years or by levels of education and then at the intersection of education and race. In this paper,...
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GVC involvement and the gender wage gap : micro-evidence for European countries
Nikulin, Dagmara; Wolszczak-Derlacz, Joanna - 2019 - This version: August 2019
discrimination among European employees. The results indicate that wages of workers employed in sectors more involved in GVC are …
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