Over the last decade, 11 states have restricted employers' access to the credit reports of job applicants. We document a significant decline in county-level vacancies after these laws were enacted: Job postings fall by 5.5 percent in affected occupations relative to exempt occupations in the...

The COVID-19 crisis brought out the woes of India’s online gig workers as the lack of labour rights such as regulated hours of work, minimum wages, data rights and social protection exacerbated the precarity and insecurity of their work. In this context, this paper examines the question, how...

Over the last 15 years, 11 states have restricted employers' access to the credit reports of job applicants. We estimate that county-level job vacancies have fallen by 5.5 percent in occupations affected by these laws relative to exempt occupations in the same counties and national-level...

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought new challenges for the economists and policy makers to analyse the market failures from a different perspective. With lockdown imposed across the country to contain the spread of the Corona virus, the markets and businesses closed down leaving thousands of...