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Jonas Hjort · Xuan Li · Heather Sarsons

Many multinationals do not fully adjust wages to the local context of their foreign establishments; instead, they partially link the wages of foreign workers in a given position to the wages paid in …

Daron Acemoglu · Pascual Restrepo

Acemoglu and Restrepo examine the effects of automation in economies where labor market distortions cause some workers to earn rents—wages above their opportunity cost or outside option. The central …

Sydnee Caldwell · Ingrid Haegele · Jörg Heining

How prevalent is individual wage bargaining in the labor market, what determines firms' bargaining strategies, how do bargaining encounters unfold for workers, and does heterogeneity in bargaining …

Almut Balleer · Georg Duernecker · Susanne Forstner · Johannes Goensch

The paper asks two questions: (1) How do workers' biased expectations about job finding and job separation shape the labor market equilibrium and wages? (2) Are differences in expectation biases …

Jonathon Hazell · Bledi Taska

Hazell and Taska use wages posted on online job vacancies — matched to job titles and establishment identifiers from Burning Glass Technologies — to measure the wage for new hires at the job level …

Cynthia L Doniger

This paper asks how the cyclical sensitivity of wages varies with workers' educational attainment, what mechanisms drive the differences, and what the welfare consequences are of ignoring this …

John Sturm Becko · André Sztutman

Can income tax schedules be justified as utilitarian-optimal without adopting extreme normative assumptions about how household welfare should be measured? The paper proposes a welfare criterion …

Diego Gentile Passaro · Fuhito Kojima · Bobak Pakzad-Hurson

This paper studies the labor market effects of "Equal Pay for Similar Work" (EPSW) policies — laws that require firms to pay equal wages to workers of different protected-class identities (e.g., …

Emmanuel Dhyne · Ayumu Ken Kikkawa · Toshiaki Komatsu · Magne Mogstad · Felix Tintelnot

The paper asks three related questions in the context of Belgium, a small open economy: (1) What do firms' responses to demand shocks reveal about their cost structures? (2) What are the worker and …

Andrii Parkhomenko

This paper asks why job polarization and income inequality are higher in large U.S. cities, and proposes a novel housing-market mechanism that operates independently of — but interacts with — the …

Mathilde Muñoz

This paper asks whether differences in labor market regulations — specifically payroll taxes and minimum wages — shape countries' comparative advantage in the cross-border provision of labor-intensive …

Christoph Albert · Albrecht Glitz · Joan Llull

Why have immigrant-native wage gaps widened substantially across arrival cohorts in the United States since the 1960s, and why has the speed of wage convergence slowed? The paper argues that the …

Serdar Birinci · Fatih Karahan · Yusuf Mercan · Kurt See

The paper asks two related questions: (1) How much, and through which channels, do employer-to-employer (EE) worker transitions affect macroeconomic outcomes — particularly inflation? (2) What is the …

Laurent Gobillon · Thierry Magnac · Sébastien Roux

This paper asks how wage inequalities build up over the life cycle when individual wage trajectories are plagued by interruptions in private-sector participation, and when the standard Missing At …

Jack Mountjoy

This paper asks whether enrolling in an American public university generates positive net returns for marginal students — those who barely qualify for admission — and whether those returns justify …

Henrique S. Basso · Omar Rachedi

Basso and Rachedi investigate how robot adoption influences inflation dynamics — specifically, whether the surge in automation during the 2000s and 2010s can explain the muted sensitivity of inflation …

Daniel Haanwinckel

How do workforce composition (labor supply), labor demand, and minimum wage policy jointly determine the wage distribution in imperfectly competitive labor markets, and what were the quantitative …

Joshua D Gottlieb · Maria Polyakova · Kevin Rinz · Hugh Shiplett · Victoria Udalova

What do U.S. physicians earn, how is that earnings variation structured across geography and specialty, and how much does government healthcare payment policy shape those earnings and — through them — …

Iacopo Morchio · Christian Moser

This paper uses linked employer-employee data from Brazil (RAIS, 2007–2014, covering 267 million worker-years, 56 million unique workers, and 607,000 employers) to document that the gender pay gap of …

Andrew Garin · Jonathan Rothbaum

Does government-led construction of large manufacturing plants in previously under-industrialized regions generate long-run improvements in regional economic development and in the lifetime earnings …

Ellora Derenoncourt · David Weil

This paper studies the labor market effects of voluntary minimum wages (VMWs) — company-wide, publicly announced wage floors set by large private employers — in the U.S. low-wage retail and service …

Zoë Cullen · Shengwu Li · Ricardo Perez-Truglia

This paper studies how salary benchmarking tools — products that reveal aggregate market pay statistics for specific job titles — affect employee compensation. The research question is whether firms' …