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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 - 2020
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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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 it is not publicly available - in particular, data...
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The Impact of Affirmative Action Litigation on Police Killings of Civilians
Cox, Robynn J. A.; Cunningham, Jamein P.; Ortega, Alberto - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Although research has shown that court-ordered hiring quotas increase the number of minority police officers in litigated cities, there has been little insight into how workforce diversity, or lack thereof, may impact police violence against civilians. Using an event study framework, we find...
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Gendered Ageism and Disablism and Employment of Older Workers
McLaughlin, Joanne Song; Neumark, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Gendered discrimination based on age and disability is a pressing issue, because this discrimination can interfere with the goal of lengthening work lives, especially for older women. In the United States, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act prohibit...
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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. - 1987
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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