RESEARCH
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15
Researchers
2
Times Cited
344
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2024
FIRST TO $15: ALBERTA'S MINIMUM WAGE POLICY ON EMPLOYMENT BY WAGES, AGES, AND PLACES
2022
LOSS OF LIFE AND LABOR PRODUCTIVITY: THE CANADIAN OPIOID CRISIS
2020
HOW LOCAL ECONOMIC CONDITIONS AFFECT SCHOOL FINANCES, TEACHER QUALITY, AND STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT: EVIDENCE FROM THE TEXAS SHALE BOOM
2018
LOCAL LABOR MARKETS AND NATURAL RESOURCES: A SYNTHESIS OF THE LITERATURE
2016
POVERTY AND AGING
2015
THE DISTRIBUTIONAL IMPACTS OF AN ENERGY BOOM IN WESTERN CANADA
2014
DOES THE RETIREMENT CONSUMPTION PUZZLE DIFFER ACROSS THE DISTRIBUTION?
2013
NEW CASINOS AND LOCAL LABOR MARKETS: EVIDENCE FROM CANADA
2013
THE SUPPLY AND DEMAND FACTORS BEHIND THE RELATIVE EARNINGS INCREASES IN URBAN CHINA AT THE TURN OF THE 21ST CENTURY
2013
THE US GENDER GAP THROUGH THE GREAT RECESSION USING AN ALTERNATIVE APPROACH TO CYCLICALITY
2012
LOCAL LABOR MARKET IMPACTS OF ENERGY BOOM-BUST-BOOM IN WESTERN CANADA
2009
IDENTIFYING THE POOREST OLDER AMERICANS
2008
RANKING INEQUALITY: APPLICATIONS OF MULTIVARIATE SUBSET SELECTION
2008
THE RETIREMENT CONSUMPTION CONUNDRUM: EVIDENCE FROM A CONSUMPTION SURVEY
2007
NO PLACE LIKE HOME: OLDER ADULTS AND THEIR HOUSING
New Economics Papers (from NEP)
The following works presented are external working papers published to the NEP-LMA and NEP-LAB RSS feeds. This content is provided to show a wider view of research being conducted across the areas of Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages, as well as Labour Economics. Works listed may have no relation to ACLMR or the ACLMR team and are published out of academic interest only.
Labour Markets
2025
Migration, Child Education, Human Capital Accumulation, and a Brain Dilution Tax
I study the effect of educational policy in the host economy on human capital accumulation and growth. The analysis is performed in a two-country growth model with endogenous fertility. I show that providing…
2025
Tariff, Wages and Compensation: A General Oligopolistic Equilibrium Analysis
A major section of the existing literature on strategic trade policy, following a partial equilibrium framework, observed that imposition of tariff by the domestic country leads to a rise in their wage…
2025-04
The Daughter Penalty
Looking at the earnings profiles of men and women after their first child is born, a number of studies establish that women suffer a larger penalty in earnings than men—a child penalty. Leveraging randomness…
2025
Assessing the Value of Incomplete University Degrees: Experimental Evidence from HR Recruiters
A university degree is a risky investment because of the non-negligible risk of having to drop out of university without graduating. However, the costs of this risk are controversial, as it is often argued…
2025
The Impact of Higher Education on Employer Perceptions
Do employers seek to attract individuals with more education because it enhances human capital or because it signals higher levels of pre-existing traits? We experimentally vary master’s degree completion…
2025
Unequal Impacts of AI on Colombia's Labor Market: An Analysis of AI Exposure, Wages, and Job Dynamics
The rapid advancements in the domain of artificial intelligence (AI) have exerted a considerable influence on the labor market, thereby engendering alterations in the demand for specific skills and the…
2025-04
The German labor market after the long boom: What’s next?
Germany has long been portrayed as the best real-world example of an export-oriented economic model associated with a dualized labor market and welfare state. The success of this export-centered model…
2025
Rebalancing Power Asymmetries Within Firms: Evidence from Illegal Resignations
We document the extent of employer abuse of power and characterise the employers most likely to engage in abusive relationships with their employees. We leverage an Italian reform that changed the process…
2025-02
Winners and Losers of Technology Grants: Evidence on Jobs and Skills
Industrial policies are widespread, but evidence on their workforce effects remains limited. We present novel evidence on the impact of EU technology subsidies on employment and skill demand in Finnish…
2025
Preferences for Gender Diversity in High-Profile Jobs
This paper examines preferences for gender diversity among co-workers. Using stated-choice experiments with 5, 400 PhD students and university students in Germany, we uncover a substantial willingness…
2025-04
The Gender Gap in Career Trajectories: Do Firms Matter?
The gender wage gap rises with experience. To what extent do firm policies mediate this rise? We use administrative data from Italy to identify workers' first jobs and compute wage growth over the next…
2025
Earnings Expectations of “First-in Family” University Students and Their Role for Major Choice
How do students’ earnings expectations differ by being the first in their family to attend university (FiF) and how do they affect field of study choice? We leverage unique survey and administrative…
2025
Value Dissonance at Work
Large organizations often require employees to collaborate with others who may see the world differently. Yet, little is known about whether misalignment in personal values with managers or colleagues…
2025
Transitory Earnings Opportunities and Educational Scarring of Men
I study how transitory increases in the opportunity cost of schooling affect dropout rates and long-run outcomes. Exploiting a tax-free year in Iceland and comparing teenagers around compulsory schooling…
2025-04-14
The commercialization of labour markets: evidence from wage inequality in the Middle Ages
Much of our understanding of the dynamics of historical economies has been shaped by insights drawn from long-run wage series. Behind much scholarship concerning pre-industrial wages lies the quest for…
2025
Breaking Barriers or Reinforcing Gaps? Gender Wage Disparities Across Skill Levels in a Developing Economy
Many factors are behind the persistent gender wage gap in a developing economy, such as occupational segregation, social norms, and gender attitudes. To narrow the gender wage gap, it is mandatory to…
2025-03
Property Rights, Sick Pay and Effort Supply
Direct evidence on variations in work incentives across different property rights systems remains scarce. This paper examines absenteeism among individuals employed in worker cooperatives—firms that…
2025-03
What Do We Know About Income and Earnings Volatility?
We first review research about income and earnings volatility and second provide new UK evidence about the latter using high quality administrative record data. The USA stands out as a high volatility…
2025-04-25
Cooperation in the Workplace
Organizations rely on peer-to-peer knowledge exchange among employees, yet incentivizing cooperative behaviors is a challenge. This study evaluates an intervention designed to encourage peer support in…
2025-04-29
The short- and long-run effect of affirmative action: evidence from Imperial China
We study the short- and long-term effects of affirmative action policies in the context of China. During imperial China, official positions were awarded to the most academically talented individuals through…
2025-04
Exposure to Regulation and Income Inequality in Local Labor Markets: Evidence from the U.S. over the…
Existing evidence points to a positive correlation between specific regulations and income inequality at a country or regional level, but little is known about how overall regulatory burden affects inequality…
2025-04
Informal Labor Exchange Teams and Participation in the Labor Market: Evidence from Rural Tanzania
We investigate labor exchange teams in rural communities, which are prevalent in many developing countries. We show theoretically that these teams are beneficial to employers, who can outsource the monitoring…
2025-03-16
Flexible Partial Pension – a Bridge to Full-time Retirement, a Way out of Employment, or an Income…
Flexible partial retirement schemes are intended to give individuals the opportunity to reduce working hours before moving into full retirement, the expectation being that the reduced workload will contribute…
2025-03
Success stories and continuing challenges: A longitudinal analysis of gender-ethnic wage gaps in the…
This paper investigates the evolution of ethnic wage gaps among men and women in the UK over the period 1993–2023. The results show reductions in wage gaps among all South Asian groups, which are…
2025-01
The Evolution of the Earnings Distribution in a Sustained Growth Economy: Evidence from Australia
We study the evolution of the earnings distributions in Australia from 1991 to 2020, a prolonged period of sustained economic growth without recession. Using a 10% sample of Australian taxpayer records,…
2025
Rural Employment Evolutions
A quarter of the population in high-income countries lives in rural areas. However, existing empirical evidence on these areas in OECD countries is scarce. Over the past several decades, many rural areas…
2025
Political Bias in the Media – Evidence from the Universe of French Broadcasts, 2002-2020
How does the media bias the news? And in particular, how much does it cost owners to ensure that journalists comply with their stance? We compile a unique dataset of journalists and guests appearing on…
2025
Migration, Child Education, Human Capital Accumulation, and a Brain Dilution Tax
I study the effect of educational policy in the host economy on human capital accumulation and growth. The analysis is performed in a two-country growth model with endogenous fertility. I show that providing…
2025
Tariff, Wages and Compensation: A General Oligopolistic Equilibrium Analysis
A major section of the existing literature on strategic trade policy, following a partial equilibrium framework, observed that imposition of tariff by the domestic country leads to a rise in their wage…
2025-04
The Daughter Penalty
Looking at the earnings profiles of men and women after their first child is born, a number of studies establish that women suffer a larger penalty in earnings than men—a child penalty. Leveraging randomness…
2025
Assessing the Value of Incomplete University Degrees: Experimental Evidence from HR Recruiters
A university degree is a risky investment because of the non-negligible risk of having to drop out of university without graduating. However, the costs of this risk are controversial, as it is often argued…
2025
The Impact of Higher Education on Employer Perceptions
Do employers seek to attract individuals with more education because it enhances human capital or because it signals higher levels of pre-existing traits? We experimentally vary master’s degree completion…
2025
Unequal Impacts of AI on Colombia's Labor Market: An Analysis of AI Exposure, Wages, and Job Dynamics
The rapid advancements in the domain of artificial intelligence (AI) have exerted a considerable influence on the labor market, thereby engendering alterations in the demand for specific skills and the…
2025-04
The German labor market after the long boom: What’s next?
Germany has long been portrayed as the best real-world example of an export-oriented economic model associated with a dualized labor market and welfare state. The success of this export-centered model…
2025
Rebalancing Power Asymmetries Within Firms: Evidence from Illegal Resignations
We document the extent of employer abuse of power and characterise the employers most likely to engage in abusive relationships with their employees. We leverage an Italian reform that changed the process…
2025-02
Winners and Losers of Technology Grants: Evidence on Jobs and Skills
Industrial policies are widespread, but evidence on their workforce effects remains limited. We present novel evidence on the impact of EU technology subsidies on employment and skill demand in Finnish…
2025
Preferences for Gender Diversity in High-Profile Jobs
This paper examines preferences for gender diversity among co-workers. Using stated-choice experiments with 5, 400 PhD students and university students in Germany, we uncover a substantial willingness…
2025-04
The Gender Gap in Career Trajectories: Do Firms Matter?
The gender wage gap rises with experience. To what extent do firm policies mediate this rise? We use administrative data from Italy to identify workers' first jobs and compute wage growth over the next…
2025
Earnings Expectations of “First-in Family” University Students and Their Role for Major Choice
How do students’ earnings expectations differ by being the first in their family to attend university (FiF) and how do they affect field of study choice? We leverage unique survey and administrative…
2025
Value Dissonance at Work
Large organizations often require employees to collaborate with others who may see the world differently. Yet, little is known about whether misalignment in personal values with managers or colleagues…
2025
Transitory Earnings Opportunities and Educational Scarring of Men
I study how transitory increases in the opportunity cost of schooling affect dropout rates and long-run outcomes. Exploiting a tax-free year in Iceland and comparing teenagers around compulsory schooling…
2025-04-14
The commercialization of labour markets: evidence from wage inequality in the Middle Ages
Much of our understanding of the dynamics of historical economies has been shaped by insights drawn from long-run wage series. Behind much scholarship concerning pre-industrial wages lies the quest for…
2025
Breaking Barriers or Reinforcing Gaps? Gender Wage Disparities Across Skill Levels in a Developing Economy
Many factors are behind the persistent gender wage gap in a developing economy, such as occupational segregation, social norms, and gender attitudes. To narrow the gender wage gap, it is mandatory to…
2025-03
Property Rights, Sick Pay and Effort Supply
Direct evidence on variations in work incentives across different property rights systems remains scarce. This paper examines absenteeism among individuals employed in worker cooperatives—firms that…
2025-03
What Do We Know About Income and Earnings Volatility?
We first review research about income and earnings volatility and second provide new UK evidence about the latter using high quality administrative record data. The USA stands out as a high volatility…
2025-04-25
Cooperation in the Workplace
Organizations rely on peer-to-peer knowledge exchange among employees, yet incentivizing cooperative behaviors is a challenge. This study evaluates an intervention designed to encourage peer support in…
2025-04-29
The short- and long-run effect of affirmative action: evidence from Imperial China
We study the short- and long-term effects of affirmative action policies in the context of China. During imperial China, official positions were awarded to the most academically talented individuals through…
2025-04
Exposure to Regulation and Income Inequality in Local Labor Markets: Evidence from the U.S. over the…
Existing evidence points to a positive correlation between specific regulations and income inequality at a country or regional level, but little is known about how overall regulatory burden affects inequality…
2025-04
Informal Labor Exchange Teams and Participation in the Labor Market: Evidence from Rural Tanzania
We investigate labor exchange teams in rural communities, which are prevalent in many developing countries. We show theoretically that these teams are beneficial to employers, who can outsource the monitoring…
2025-03-16
Flexible Partial Pension – a Bridge to Full-time Retirement, a Way out of Employment, or an Income…
Flexible partial retirement schemes are intended to give individuals the opportunity to reduce working hours before moving into full retirement, the expectation being that the reduced workload will contribute…
2025-03
Success stories and continuing challenges: A longitudinal analysis of gender-ethnic wage gaps in the…
This paper investigates the evolution of ethnic wage gaps among men and women in the UK over the period 1993–2023. The results show reductions in wage gaps among all South Asian groups, which are…
2025-01
The Evolution of the Earnings Distribution in a Sustained Growth Economy: Evidence from Australia
We study the evolution of the earnings distributions in Australia from 1991 to 2020, a prolonged period of sustained economic growth without recession. Using a 10% sample of Australian taxpayer records,…
2025
Rural Employment Evolutions
A quarter of the population in high-income countries lives in rural areas. However, existing empirical evidence on these areas in OECD countries is scarce. Over the past several decades, many rural areas…
2025
Political Bias in the Media – Evidence from the Universe of French Broadcasts, 2002-2020
How does the media bias the news? And in particular, how much does it cost owners to ensure that journalists comply with their stance? We compile a unique dataset of journalists and guests appearing on…
2025
Migration, Child Education, Human Capital Accumulation, and a Brain Dilution Tax
I study the effect of educational policy in the host economy on human capital accumulation and growth. The analysis is performed in a two-country growth model with endogenous fertility. I show that providing…
2025
Tariff, Wages and Compensation: A General Oligopolistic Equilibrium Analysis
A major section of the existing literature on strategic trade policy, following a partial equilibrium framework, observed that imposition of tariff by the domestic country leads to a rise in their wage…
2025-04
The Daughter Penalty
Looking at the earnings profiles of men and women after their first child is born, a number of studies establish that women suffer a larger penalty in earnings than men—a child penalty. Leveraging randomness…
Labour Economics
2025-05
Opioids and Post-COVID Labor-Force Participation
At the onset of COVID-19, U.S. labor-force participation dropped by about 3 percentage points and remained below pre-pandemic levels three years later. Recovery varied across states, with slower rebounds…
2025-04
Partisan Mortality Cycles
Geographic disparities in mortality rates in the US are pronounced and growing. The Black-White mortality gap is volatile but persistent, while the Rich-Poor mortality gap is increasing dramatically.…
2025
The Distributional Effects of Low Emission Zones: Who Benefits from Cleaner Air?
Low emission zones (LEZ) represent a key environmental policy instrument to address air pollution in cities. LEZs have reduced air pollution and associated health damages in regulated areas, but it remains…
2025
Leave and Let Leave: Workplace Peer Effects in Fathers’ Take-up of Parental Leave
Relying on a reform that increased parental leave generosity, we estimate workplace peer effects in the use of leave, with a focus on fathers. Coworker fathers are more likely to take parental leave when…
2025-04-25
Mismatch, long-term unemployment and post-COVID labour market programmes in the Nordic countries
This paper explores post-pandemic developments and analyses post-COVID matching dynamics in the Nordic labour markets. It also discusses the role of institutions and the policies implemented to address…
2025-02
Refugee Immigration and Natives’ Fertility
Debates about immigration’s role in addressing population aging typically concentrate on immigrant fertility rates. Moreover, standard projections account for migration’s impact on overall population…
2025-04
The Impact of Regional Identity on Hiring Chances: An Experiment Examining Employer Bias
Regional mobility is crucial for addressing labour shortages, as jobseekers from one region may fill vacancies in another region with few local candidates. However, this requires a willingness amongst…
The macroeconomic effects of unemployment insurance extensions: A policy rule-based identification approach
We assess the macroeconomic effects of unemployment insurance (UI) extensions in the US through a novel identification scheme based on the design of the UI policy rule. Our approach exploits differences…
2025-04
Work-Hour Instability, Occupational Mobility and Gender
Although more than 20 per cent of the workforce changes their occupation every year, we still do not fully understand the mechanisms behind the observed mobility. This paper focuses on analysing the relationship…
2025
It Runs in the Family: Occupational Choice and the Allocation of Talent
Children tend to choose the same occupations as their parents. We examine the implications of this tendency for talent allocation and intergenerational mobility. Using Swedish data on skills and personality…
2025-04
Fast-Tracked Jobs Help Asylum Seekers Integrate Faster
We evaluate a labor market integration program that fast-tracked asylum seekers into the Italian labor market through personalized job mentoring, placement assistance, and on-the-job training. Leveraging…
2025-04
Protection for Whom? The Political Economy of Protective Labor Laws for Women
During the first half of the twentieth century, many US states enacted laws restricting women's labor market opportunities, including maximum hours restrictions, minimum wage laws, and night-shift bans.…
2025-04
The Fatal Consequences of Brain Drain
This paper examines the welfare consequences of reallocating high-skilled labor across borders. A labor demand shock in Norway—driven by a surge in oil prices—substantially increased physician wages…
2025-04
Size Matters: Matching Externalities and the Advantages of Large Labor Markets
Economists have long hypothesized that large and thick labor markets facilitate the matching between workers and firms. We use administrative data from the LEHD to compare the job search outcomes of workers…
2025
From Exodus to Employment: Labor Market Transitions and the Role of Work Permits in Colombia
The Venezuelan migration crisis has led to large-scale displacement, with over 2.5 million Venezuelans seeking refuge in Colombia. This study assesses the impact of the PEP on labor market outcomes for…
2025
Helping Jobseekers with Recommendations Based on Skill Profiles or Past Experience: Evidence from a Randomized Intervention
Searching for jobs is challenging, and online platforms now often offer tailored job recommendations. In a randomized controlled trial with over 1, 250 participants, we evaluate recommendations based…
2025-03
Educational Ambition, Marital Sorting, and Inequality
This paper revisits the link between education-based marriage market sorting and income inequality. Leveraging Danish administrative data, we develop a novel categorization of “ambition types” that…
2025
Estimating the Effect of Working from Home on Parents' Division of Childcare and Housework: A New Panel IV Approach
This study investigates whether (and how) working from home (WFH) affects the gender division of parental unpaid labor. I use the recent COVID-19 pandemic that brought an unanticipated yet lasting shift…
2025-04
The Elasticity of Substitution between Native and Immigrant Labor: A Meta-Analysis
This paper presents the first comprehensive meta-analysis of the elasticity of substitution between native and immigrant labor. Drawing on 1, 091 estimates from 41 studies, we examine whether immigrants…
2025
How Is Global Commerce Affecting the Gender Composition of Employment? A Firm-Level Analysis of the Effects of Exposure to Gender Norms via Trade and FDI
Global firms have a higher share of female employees than domestic non-exporters. To explain this fact, this paper tests whether international trade and FDI are channels through which norms regarding…
2025
The Menopause “Penalty”
The motherhood penalty is well-documented, but what happens at the other end of the reproductive spectrum? Menopause—a transition often marked by debilitating physical and psychological symptoms—also…
2025-04
Effects of written self-promotion on gender bias and decision quality
Written self-promotion is crucial in numerous decision-making scenarios, including job applications, securing funds for start-ups, or academic grant proposals. In two experiments, we study the effects…
2025
Gender Stereotypes and Homophily in Team Formation
Women often find themselves in teams that hinder their productivity and earnings. We analyze the role of homophily and gender stereotypes in preferences for team formation and examine the effect of information…
2025
Fair Institutions
The experimental literature on preferences for redistribution has established that individual perceptions of what earning distributions are fair depend greatly on context. In this paper, we study an important…
2025-04
Confident, but Undervalued: Evidence from the Irish Economic Association Conference
This paper examines the gender influence gap in an academic setting, focusing on the Irish Economic Association (IEA) Conference review process. Using data from 2017 to 2023, we analyze whether organizers…
2025-04
The End of an Era. The Vanishing Negative Effect of Women's Employment on Fertility
This paper addresses whether women's employment in the 21st century remains a barrier to family formation, as it was in the 1980s and 1990s, or—similar to men's—it has become a prerequisite…
2025-03
How Tinted Are Your Glasses? Gender Views, Beliefs and Recommendations in Hiring
We study the gendered impact of recommendations at different stages of the hiring process. First, using a large sample of reference letters from the academic job market for economists, we document that…
2025-03
The Role of Business Visits in Fostering R&D Investment
Labor mobility is considered a powerful channel to acquire external knowledge and trigger complementarities in the innovation and R&D investment strategies; however, the extant literature has focused…
2025-04-17
Absorptive Capacity of Türkiye’s Provinces vis-à-vis Refugee Influx from Syria
This paper quantitatively examines the refugee absorption/integration rates across Türkiye’s 81 provinces while considering the geographical and economic features of each of the 81 provinces. The study…
2025-03
Long-term Effects of Phonics Approaches to the Development of Reading Skills
Many studies have documented that a phonics approach is an essential component in the teaching of reading for beginning readers, especially for students at risk of reading disabilities. We study whether…
2025-05
Opioids and Post-COVID Labor-Force Participation
At the onset of COVID-19, U.S. labor-force participation dropped by about 3 percentage points and remained below pre-pandemic levels three years later. Recovery varied across states, with slower rebounds…
2025-04
Partisan Mortality Cycles
Geographic disparities in mortality rates in the US are pronounced and growing. The Black-White mortality gap is volatile but persistent, while the Rich-Poor mortality gap is increasing dramatically.…
2025
The Distributional Effects of Low Emission Zones: Who Benefits from Cleaner Air?
Low emission zones (LEZ) represent a key environmental policy instrument to address air pollution in cities. LEZs have reduced air pollution and associated health damages in regulated areas, but it remains…
2025
Leave and Let Leave: Workplace Peer Effects in Fathers’ Take-up of Parental Leave
Relying on a reform that increased parental leave generosity, we estimate workplace peer effects in the use of leave, with a focus on fathers. Coworker fathers are more likely to take parental leave when…
2025-04-25
Mismatch, long-term unemployment and post-COVID labour market programmes in the Nordic countries
This paper explores post-pandemic developments and analyses post-COVID matching dynamics in the Nordic labour markets. It also discusses the role of institutions and the policies implemented to address…
2025-02
Refugee Immigration and Natives’ Fertility
Debates about immigration’s role in addressing population aging typically concentrate on immigrant fertility rates. Moreover, standard projections account for migration’s impact on overall population…
2025-04
The Impact of Regional Identity on Hiring Chances: An Experiment Examining Employer Bias
Regional mobility is crucial for addressing labour shortages, as jobseekers from one region may fill vacancies in another region with few local candidates. However, this requires a willingness amongst…
The macroeconomic effects of unemployment insurance extensions: A policy rule-based identification approach
We assess the macroeconomic effects of unemployment insurance (UI) extensions in the US through a novel identification scheme based on the design of the UI policy rule. Our approach exploits differences…
2025-04
Work-Hour Instability, Occupational Mobility and Gender
Although more than 20 per cent of the workforce changes their occupation every year, we still do not fully understand the mechanisms behind the observed mobility. This paper focuses on analysing the relationship…
2025
It Runs in the Family: Occupational Choice and the Allocation of Talent
Children tend to choose the same occupations as their parents. We examine the implications of this tendency for talent allocation and intergenerational mobility. Using Swedish data on skills and personality…
2025-04
Fast-Tracked Jobs Help Asylum Seekers Integrate Faster
We evaluate a labor market integration program that fast-tracked asylum seekers into the Italian labor market through personalized job mentoring, placement assistance, and on-the-job training. Leveraging…
2025-04
Protection for Whom? The Political Economy of Protective Labor Laws for Women
During the first half of the twentieth century, many US states enacted laws restricting women's labor market opportunities, including maximum hours restrictions, minimum wage laws, and night-shift bans.…
2025-04
The Fatal Consequences of Brain Drain
This paper examines the welfare consequences of reallocating high-skilled labor across borders. A labor demand shock in Norway—driven by a surge in oil prices—substantially increased physician wages…
2025-04
Size Matters: Matching Externalities and the Advantages of Large Labor Markets
Economists have long hypothesized that large and thick labor markets facilitate the matching between workers and firms. We use administrative data from the LEHD to compare the job search outcomes of workers…
2025
From Exodus to Employment: Labor Market Transitions and the Role of Work Permits in Colombia
The Venezuelan migration crisis has led to large-scale displacement, with over 2.5 million Venezuelans seeking refuge in Colombia. This study assesses the impact of the PEP on labor market outcomes for…
2025
Helping Jobseekers with Recommendations Based on Skill Profiles or Past Experience: Evidence from a Randomized Intervention
Searching for jobs is challenging, and online platforms now often offer tailored job recommendations. In a randomized controlled trial with over 1, 250 participants, we evaluate recommendations based…
2025-03
Educational Ambition, Marital Sorting, and Inequality
This paper revisits the link between education-based marriage market sorting and income inequality. Leveraging Danish administrative data, we develop a novel categorization of “ambition types” that…
2025
Estimating the Effect of Working from Home on Parents' Division of Childcare and Housework: A New Panel IV Approach
This study investigates whether (and how) working from home (WFH) affects the gender division of parental unpaid labor. I use the recent COVID-19 pandemic that brought an unanticipated yet lasting shift…
2025-04
The Elasticity of Substitution between Native and Immigrant Labor: A Meta-Analysis
This paper presents the first comprehensive meta-analysis of the elasticity of substitution between native and immigrant labor. Drawing on 1, 091 estimates from 41 studies, we examine whether immigrants…
2025
How Is Global Commerce Affecting the Gender Composition of Employment? A Firm-Level Analysis of the Effects of Exposure to Gender Norms via Trade and FDI
Global firms have a higher share of female employees than domestic non-exporters. To explain this fact, this paper tests whether international trade and FDI are channels through which norms regarding…
2025
The Menopause “Penalty”
The motherhood penalty is well-documented, but what happens at the other end of the reproductive spectrum? Menopause—a transition often marked by debilitating physical and psychological symptoms—also…
2025-04
Effects of written self-promotion on gender bias and decision quality
Written self-promotion is crucial in numerous decision-making scenarios, including job applications, securing funds for start-ups, or academic grant proposals. In two experiments, we study the effects…
2025
Gender Stereotypes and Homophily in Team Formation
Women often find themselves in teams that hinder their productivity and earnings. We analyze the role of homophily and gender stereotypes in preferences for team formation and examine the effect of information…
2025
Fair Institutions
The experimental literature on preferences for redistribution has established that individual perceptions of what earning distributions are fair depend greatly on context. In this paper, we study an important…
2025-04
Confident, but Undervalued: Evidence from the Irish Economic Association Conference
This paper examines the gender influence gap in an academic setting, focusing on the Irish Economic Association (IEA) Conference review process. Using data from 2017 to 2023, we analyze whether organizers…
2025-04
The End of an Era. The Vanishing Negative Effect of Women's Employment on Fertility
This paper addresses whether women's employment in the 21st century remains a barrier to family formation, as it was in the 1980s and 1990s, or—similar to men's—it has become a prerequisite…
2025-03
How Tinted Are Your Glasses? Gender Views, Beliefs and Recommendations in Hiring
We study the gendered impact of recommendations at different stages of the hiring process. First, using a large sample of reference letters from the academic job market for economists, we document that…
2025-03
The Role of Business Visits in Fostering R&D Investment
Labor mobility is considered a powerful channel to acquire external knowledge and trigger complementarities in the innovation and R&D investment strategies; however, the extant literature has focused…
2025-04-17
Absorptive Capacity of Türkiye’s Provinces vis-à-vis Refugee Influx from Syria
This paper quantitatively examines the refugee absorption/integration rates across Türkiye’s 81 provinces while considering the geographical and economic features of each of the 81 provinces. The study…
2025-03
Long-term Effects of Phonics Approaches to the Development of Reading Skills
Many studies have documented that a phonics approach is an essential component in the teaching of reading for beginning readers, especially for students at risk of reading disabilities. We study whether…
2025-05
Opioids and Post-COVID Labor-Force Participation
At the onset of COVID-19, U.S. labor-force participation dropped by about 3 percentage points and remained below pre-pandemic levels three years later. Recovery varied across states, with slower rebounds…
2025-04
Partisan Mortality Cycles
Geographic disparities in mortality rates in the US are pronounced and growing. The Black-White mortality gap is volatile but persistent, while the Rich-Poor mortality gap is increasing dramatically.…
2025
The Distributional Effects of Low Emission Zones: Who Benefits from Cleaner Air?
Low emission zones (LEZ) represent a key environmental policy instrument to address air pollution in cities. LEZs have reduced air pollution and associated health damages in regulated areas, but it remains…