Commission to examine labor market outcomes of employees at firms undergoing mergers. Earnings and employment can be observed …

This thesis is comprised of three chapters. The first investigates the implications of industrial clustering for labor … exploit establishment-level variation in agglomeration to explore the impact of clustering in the software publishing industry … on labor market outcomes. The results show that clustering makes it easier for workers to job hop among establishments …

Individuals compete against each other in a variety of different settings. In labor markets they compete for promotion … ambiguity aversion has value as individuals in labor markets have ambiguous signals about their probabilities of success in … competition. Consequently this measure may be used in future experiment designs to control for heterogeneous preferences for …

zero capital taxation by discussing how taxeson capital income, labor income, and property affect the economy in the … subsidy to capitalincome and a tax on labor income. Finally, I find that when taxes on capital income,labor income, and … expenditures increase. Inaddition, when one tax is allowed to change, a changing labor-income tax may bringmore utility over the …