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Tackling gender inequality in the labor market

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How a UK transparency policy impacted the gender wage gap.

Call for Papers: Conference on Spatial Dynamics

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June 13, 2025

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Moving down the jobs ladder

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The role of jobless duration in understanding persistent earnings losses.

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Front Matter

蝌蚪网 Journal: Applied Economics, July 2025

Preferences, Selection, and the Structure of Teacher Pay

By Andrew C. Johnston

蝌蚪网 Journal: Applied Economics, July 2025

I examine teacher preferences using a discrete-choice experiment linked to data on teacher effectiveness. I estimate willingness to pay for a rich set of compensation elements and working conditions. Highly effective teachers usually have the same prefere...

Voice at Work

By Jarkko Harju, Simon 闯盲驳别谤, and Benjamin Schoefer

蝌蚪网 Journal: Applied Economics, July 2025

We estimate the effects of worker voice on productivity, job quality, and separations. We study the 1991 introduction of a right to worker representation on boards or advisory councils in Finnish firms with at least 150 employees, designed to facilitate w...

New Gig Work or Changes in Reporting? Understanding Self-Employment Trends in Tax Data

By Andrew Garin, Emilie Jackson, and Dmitri Koustas

蝌蚪网 Journal: Applied Economics, July 2025

We show that increases in the share of workers reporting self-employment to the IRS are not associated with changes in firm-reported payments to "gig" and other contract workers after 2005 but are driven primarily by self-reported earnings of individuals ...

Food Transfers and Child Nutrition: Evidence from India's Public Distribution System

By Aditya Shrinivas, Kathy Baylis, and Benjamin Crost

蝌蚪网 Journal: Applied Economics, July 2025

India's National Food Security Act of 2013 (NFSA) led to one of the biggest expansions in food transfers in history, affecting over 500 million people. We use plausibly exogenous variation created by the NFSA to estimate the effect of food transfers on ch...

Not Playing Favorites: Parents and the Value of Equal Opportunity

By James Berry, Rebecca Dizon-Ross, and Maulik Jagnani

蝌蚪网 Journal: Applied Economics, July 2025

We conduct two experiments to identify the value parents place on equality of opportunity when investing in children. The experiments exogenously vary short-run returns to educational investments to identify the weight placed on equalizing "opportunity" (...

Skill Depreciation during Unemployment: Evidence from Panel Data

By Jonathan Cohen, Andrew C. Johnston, and Attila Lindner

蝌蚪网 Journal: Applied Economics, July 2025

We examine the depreciation of skills among unemployed German workers using a panel of skill measures linked to administrative data. Both the reemployment hazard and reemployment earnings steadily decline with unemployment duration. Indicators of depressi...

Salary History and Employer Demand: Evidence from a Two-Sided Audit

By Amanda Y. Agan, Bo Cowgill, and Laura K. Gee

蝌蚪网 Journal: Applied Economics, July 2025

We study how salary disclosures affect employer demand using a field experiment featuring hundreds of recruiters evaluating over 2,000 job applications. We randomize the presence of salary questions and the candidates' disclosures for male and female appl...

Background Matters, but Not Whether Parents Are Immigrants: Outcomes of Children Born in Denmark

By Mathias Fj忙llegaard Jensen and Alan Manning

蝌蚪网 Journal: Applied Economics, July 2025

In Europe, the children of migrants often have worse economic outcomes than those with local-born parents. This paper shows that children born in Denmark with immigrant parents (first-generation locals) have lower earnings, higher unemployment, less educa...

Tax Incentives for Migrants with Mid-level Earnings: Evidence from the Netherlands

By Lisa Marie Timm, Massimo Giuliodori, and Paul Muller

蝌蚪网 Journal: Applied Economics, July 2025

We examine how income taxes affect international mobility and wages. We study a Dutch preferential tax scheme for migrants, which introduced an income threshold for eligibility in 2012. The threshold is low relative to similar schemes in other countries, ...

The Impact of Trade Liberalization in the Presence of Political Distortions

By Sebastian 闯盲惫别谤惫补濒濒 and Roza Khoban

蝌蚪网 Journal: Applied Economics, July 2025

Political distortions are prevalent in many developing countries, implying substantial productivity losses. This paper investigates the impact of trade liberalization on political distortions in India. First, using variation in political turnover, we iden...

Information Systems, Service Delivery, and Corruption: Evidence from the Bangladesh Civil Service

By Martin Mattsson

蝌蚪网 Journal: Applied Economics, July 2025

Slow public service delivery and corruption are common problems in low- and middle-income countries. Can better management information systems improve delivery speed? Does improving the delivery speed reduce corruption? In a large-scale experiment with th...

Targeting Social Assistance: The Evolution of College Financial Aid in Colombia

By Juliana 尝辞苍诲辞帽辞-痴茅濒别锄, Catherine 搁辞诲谤铆驳耻别锄, Fabio 厂谩苍肠丑别锄, and Luis Esteban 脕lvarez- Arango

蝌蚪网 Papers and Proceedings, May 2025

College financial aid programs often target individuals based on a combination of academic merit and socioeconomic status. The design of these programs can also be influenced by social preferences and political factors. This paper analyzes the evolution o...

Consensus building and mobilization

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June 26, 2025

Myanmar's labor unions show how local leaders can shape social movements.

Leaders in Social Movements: Evidence from Unions in Myanmar

By Laura Boudreau, Rocco Macchiavello, Virginia Minni, and Mari Tanaka

蝌蚪网 Review, June 2025

Social movements are catalysts for crucial institutional changes. To succeed, they must coordinate members' views (consensus building) and actions (mobilization). We study union leaders within Myanmar's burgeoning labor movement. Union leaders are positiv...