Using linked employer-employee data from Brazil, we document a large gender pay gap due to women working at lower …

more of them are residing with their parents. The unemployment rate at 23-27 year old for the 1996 college graduation … explain two thirds of the rise in unemployment and coresidence between the 2013 and 1996 graduation cohorts. Rising wage … dispersion is also important for the increase in unemployment, while declining parental income, rising student loan balances and …

Licensed workers could be shielded from unemployment during recession since occupational licensing laws are asymmetric …-in-differences event study research design that exploits cross-state variation in licensing laws to compare the unemployment rate between …, we find that licensing shields workers from a recession-induced increase in the unemployment rate of 0.82 p.p. during …

Tracking individual workers across jobs after Brazil's trade liberalization in the 1990s shows that tariff cuts trigger … transitions to services, unemployment, and out of the labor force. Results are consistent with faster labor productivity growth …

In this paper, we use a linked employer-employee database from Brazil to evaluate the wage effects of trade reform …

We introduce dynamic incentive contracts into a model of unemployment dynamics and present three results. First, wage … cyclicality from incentives does not dampen unemployment dynamics: the response of unemployment to shocks is first … cyclicality from bargaining dampens unemployment dynamics through the standard mechanism. Third, our calibrated model suggests 46 …