In Brazil, different employers report different racial classifications for the same worker. We use the variation across employers to identify the relationship between race and wages. As much as 40 percent of the raw racial wage gap remains after controlling for all individual characteristics...

Despite their documented importance in the labor market, little is known about how workers use social networks to find jobs and their resulting effect on earnings. I use geographically detailed U.S. employer-employee data to infer the role of social networks in connecting workers to jobs in...

We use Brazilian matched employer-employee data to provide new evidence on gender disparities in labor market sorting on wages and workplace safety. We show that women and men sort in highly disparate, but systematic, ways on the basis of physical risk, despite sorting almost identically on...