Many countries, primarily in Europe, apply dismissal protections to permanent employment contracts but not to temporary ones, creating a two-tiered labor market in which younger and less educated …
PublishedAmerican Economic ReviewOnline 1 Dec 2025Published Dec 2025
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 …
PublishedReview of Economic StudiesOnline 27 Jan 2026Published Sep 2026
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 …
PublishedJournal of Monetary EconomicsOnline 1 Mar 2026Published Mar 2026
How do aggregate economic fluctuations reallocate workers across the firm productivity distribution over the business cycle? In particular, to what extent do recessions impede workers' movement up the …
PublishedJournal of Monetary EconomicsPublished Mar 2026
This paper asks why unemployment rates differ so persistently across local labor markets, and what role job creation and job destruction play in generating those differences. The authors document a …