Do firms that pay more offer better amenities, or does the greater pay compensate for worse
amenities? Using matched US employee-employer data, this paper estimates the joint …

We show that private equity leveraged buyouts reduce perceived job quality despite not
impacting average base pay. This appears to reflect employees bearing more risk. Both job …

Following the June 24, 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Supreme Court ruling, which overturned the
federal right to abortion established in Roe v. Wade, hundreds of employers publicly …

Over the past few decades, human capital has been a central ingredient of the process of
economic development. The XXth century has seen unprecedented increases in …

We evaluate the impact of the Washington State Attorney General's enforcement campaign
against employee no-poaching clauses in franchising contracts, which unfolded from 2018 …

This paper shows that large, multi-establishment business enterprises face a high cost of
middle management in poor countries and that this cost inhibits the growth of the modern …

Workers in richer countries experience faster rates of wage growth over their lifetimes than
workers in poorer countries. We offer an explanation for this pattern by showing that workers …

This paper aims to understand the relationship between high-skill immigration and
multinational activity. I assemble a novel firm-level dataset on high-skill visas and show that …

Are labor markets in higher-income countries more meritocratic, in the sense that worker-job
matching is based on skills rather than idiosyncratic attributes unrelated to productivity? If so …

This paper finds robust evidence that economic freedom improves the quality of education.
This is probably mainly because economic freedom incentivizes parents to invest in high …