Search Results - "Journal of labor economics"

Firms and Labor Market Inequality: Evidence and Some Theory by Card, David, Cardoso, Ana Rute, Heining, Joerg, Kline, Patrick

“…We synthesize two related literatures on firm-level drivers of wage inequality. Studies of rent sharing that use matched worker-firm data find elasticities of…”
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Import Competition and the Great US Employment Sag of the 2000s by Acemoglu, Daron, Autor, David, Dorn, David, Hanson, Gordon H., Price, Brendan

“…Even before the Great Recession, US employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back the considerable employment gains achieved…”
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Happiness and Productivity by Oswald, Andrew J., Proto, Eugenio, Sgroi, Daniel

“…Some firms say they care about the well-being and “happiness” of their employees. But are such claims hype or scientific good sense? We provide evidence, for a…”
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Skill requirements across firms and labor markets: Evidence from job postings for professionals by Deming, David, Kahn, Lisa B

“…We study variation in skill demands for professionals across firms and labor markets. We categorize a wide range of keywords found in job ads into 10 general…”
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Understanding peer effects: On the nature, estimation, and channels of peer effects by Feld, Jan, Zölitz, Ulf

“…This paper estimates peer effects in a university context where students are randomly assigned to sections. While students benefit from better peers on…”
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When Do Covariates Matter? And Which Ones, and How Much? by Gelbach, Jonah B.

“…Authors often add covariates to a base model sequentially either to test a particular coefficient’s “robustness” or to account for the “effects” on this…”
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It's where you work. Increases in the dispersion of earnings across establishments and individuals in the United States by Barth, Erling, Bryson, Alex, Davis, James C, Freeman, Richard

“…This paper analyzes the role of establishments in the upward trend in dispersion of earnings that has become a central topic in economic analysis and policy…”
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The great reversal in the demand for skill and cognitive tasks by Beaudry, Paul, Green, David A, Sand, Benjamin M

“…This paper argues that several of the poor labor market outcomes observed in the Great Recession can be traced back to a change in the demand pattern for…”
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Minimum Wage Shocks, Employment Flows, and Labor Market Frictions by Dube, Arindrajit, Lester, T. William, Reich, Michael

“…We provide the first estimates of the effects of minimum wages on employment flows in the US labor market, identifying the impact by using policy…”
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Management Practices, Workforce Selection, and Productivity by Bender, Stefan, Bloom, Nicholas, Card, David, Van Reenen, John, Wolter, Stefanie

“…We study the relationship among productivity, management practices, and employee ability using German data combining management practices surveys with…”
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A Most Egalitarian Profession: Pharmacy and the Evolution of a Family-Friendly Occupation by Goldin, Claudia, Katz, Lawrence F.

“…Pharmacy today is a highly remunerated female-majority profession with a small gender earnings gap and low earnings dispersion. Using extensive surveys of…”
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Parenthood and the Gender Gap in Pay by Angelov, Nikolay, Johansson, Per, Lindahl, Erica

“…We compare the income and wage trajectories of women to those of their male partners before and after parenthood. Focusing on the within-couple gap allows us…”
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Temperature and the Allocation of Time: Implications for Climate Change by Graff Zivin, Joshua, Neidell, Matthew

“…We estimate the impacts of temperature on time allocation by exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in temperature over time within counties. Temperature…”
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Why do entrepreneurial parents have entrepreneurial children? by Lindquist, Matthew J., Sol, Joeri, Van Praag, Mirjam

“…We explore the origins of the intergenerational association in entrepreneurship using Swedish adoption data that allow us to quantify the relative importance…”
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Putting tasks to the test: Human capital, job tasks, and wages by Autor, David H., Handel, Michael J.

“…Using original, representative survey data, we document that analytical, routine, and manual job tasks can be measured with high validity, vary substantially…”
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Reallocation in the Great Recession: Cleansing or Not? by Foster, Lucia, Grim, Cheryl, Haltiwanger, John

“…The high pace of reallocation across producers is pervasive in the US economy. Evidence shows that this high pace of reallocation is closely linked to…”
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Expansions in Maternity Leave Coverage and Mothers’ Labor Market Outcomes after Childbirth by Schönberg, Uta, Ludsteck, Johannes

“…This article analyzes the impact of five major expansions in maternity leave coverage in Germany on mothers’ labor market outcomes after childbirth. To…”
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The long-term impact of the earned income tax credit on children's education and employment outcomes by Bastian, Jacob, Michelmore, Katherine

“…Using 4 decades of variation in the federal and state Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), we estimate the impact of exposure to EITC expansions in childhood on…”
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Collaborating with People Like Me: Ethnic Coauthorship within the United States by Freeman, Richard B., Huang, Wei

“…By examining the ethnic identity of authors in over 2.5 million scientific papers written by US-based authors from 1985 to 2008, we find that persons of…”
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Cashier or consultant?: Entry labor market conditions, field of study, and career success by Altonji, Joseph G, Kahn, Lisa B, Speer, Jamin D

“…We measure impacts of entry conditions on labor market outcomes for the US college graduating classes of 1974–2011. A large recession reduces initial earnings…”
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