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作者：Beaman, Lori; Keleher, Niall; Magruder, Jeremy
作者单位：Northwestern University; University of California System; University of California Berkeley; Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA)
摘要：We use a field experiment to show that referral-based hiring has the potential to disadvantage qualified women, highlighting another potential channel behind gender disparities in the labor market. Through a recruitment drive for a firm in Malawi, we look at men's and women's referral choices under different incentives and constraints. We find that men systematically refer few women, despite being able to refer qualified women when explicitly asked for female candidates. Performance pay also d...
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作者：Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel; Launov, Andrey; Van der Linden, Bruno
作者单位：Ghent University; Universite Catholique Louvain; University of Kent; Universite Catholique Louvain; Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique - FNRS
摘要：We build and estimate a nonstationary structural job search model that incorporates the main stylized features of a typical job search monitoring scheme in unemployment insurance (UI) and acknowledges that search effort and requirements are measured imperfectly. On the basis of Belgian data, monitoring is found to affect search behavior only weakly because assessments were scheduled late and infrequently, the monitoring technology was not sufficiently precise, and lenient Belgian UI results in...
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作者：Dillon, Eleanor W.
作者单位：Amherst College; Amherst College
摘要：This paper documents differences in lifetime earnings risk across occupations due to wage risk, employment risk, and midcareer occupation changes, which can mitigate other shocks. Total lifetime earnings risk varies considerably across starting occupation, and riskier occupations pay more in expectation. The average worker would give up at least 9% of total lifetime earnings in the least certain occupation to reduce the riskiness of that occupation to the level of the safest starting occupatio...
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作者：Ost, Ben; Pan, Weixiang; Webber, Douglas
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Chicago; University of Illinois Chicago Hospital; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University
摘要：We estimate the returns to college using administrative data on both college enrollment and earnings. Exploiting that colleges dismiss low-performing students on the basis of exact GPA cutoffs, we use a regression discontinuity design to estimate the earnings impacts of college. Dismissal leads to a short-run increase in earnings and tuition savings, but the future fall in earnings is sufficiently large that 8 years after dismissal, persisting students have already recouped their up-front inve...
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作者：Bharadwaj, Prashant; Pedro Eberhard, Juan; Neilson, Christopher A.
作者单位：University of California System; University of California San Diego; Universidad Adolfo Ibanez; Princeton University
摘要：This paper explores the relationship among health at birth, academic outcomes, and the potential role of parental investments using administrative panel data from Chile. Using detailed data on parental investments, we find that investments are compensatory regarding initial health, but not across twins. Twins fixed effects models estimate a persistent effect of birth weight on academic achievement, while ordinary least squares and siblings fixed effects models find this relationship to decline...
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作者：Ibanez, Marcela; Riener, Gerhard
作者单位：University of Gottingen; Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf
摘要：The use of affirmative action policies to promote female employment remains debated. Do affirmative action policies attract female applicants, and does that come at the expense of deterring highly qualified male applicants? In three field experiments in Colombia, we compare job seekers who are informed of affirmative action selection criteria before they apply with those who are told after applying. We find that the gains in attracting female applicants far outweigh the losses in male applican...
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作者：Flabbi, Luca; Mabli, James
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; Mathematica
摘要：Most labor market search models ignore the fact that decisions are often made at the household level. We fill this gap by developing and estimating a household search model with on-the-job search and labor supply. We find that ignoring the household as a decision-making unit has relevant empirical consequences. In estimation, the individual search model implies gender wage offer differentials almost twice as large as the household search model. In the application, the individual search model i...
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作者：Knepper, Matthew
摘要：The number of workplace sex discrimination charges filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission approaches 25,000 annually. Do the subsequent judicial proceedings suffer from a discriminatory gender bias? Exploiting random assignment of federal district court judges to civil cases, I find that female plaintiffs filing workplace sex discrimination claims are substantially more likely to settle and win compensation whenever a female judge is assigned to the case. Additionally, female j...
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作者：Bender, Stefan; Bloom, Nicholas; Card, David; Van Reenen, John; Wolter, Stefanie
作者单位：Deutsche Bundesbank; University of California System; University of California Berkeley; National Bureau of Economic Research; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：We study the relationship among productivity, management practices, and employee ability using German data combining management practices surveys with employees' longitudinal earnings records. Including human capital reduces the association between productivity and management practices by 30%-50%. Only a small fraction is accounted for by the higher human capital of the average employee at better-managed firms. A larger share is attributable to the human capital of the highest-paid workers, th...
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作者：Haltiwanger, John; Hyatt, Henry; McEntarfer, Erika
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
摘要：In this paper, we use linked employer-employee data to study the reallocation of heterogeneous workers between heterogeneous firms. We build on recent evidence of a cyclical job ladder that reallocates workers from low-productivity to high-productivity firms through job-to-job moves. In this paper, we turn to the question of who moves up this job ladder and the implications for worker sorting across firms. Not surprisingly, we find that job-to-job moves reallocate younger workers disproportion...
