This paper develops a method to estimate workers' outside employment opportunities. We outline a matching model with two-sided heterogeneity, from which we derive a sufficient …
This paper extends the monopsony literature by taking a task-based approach and estimating the causal effect of concentration on labour market outcomes. Using detailed …
L Farré, J Jofre-Monseny… - Journal of Economic …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
In this article, we investigate the contribution of increasing travel times to the persistent gender gap in labor market participation. In doing so, we estimate the effect of commuting …
There is a well-known gender difference in time allocation within the household, which has important implications for gender differences in labor market outcomes. We ask how …
S Liu, Y Su - Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024 - direct.mit.edu
Prior studies show that women are more willing to accept lower wages for shorter commutes than men. We show that gender differences in commuting preferences lead to a gender …
This paper isolates the impact of labor market competition on firms, workers, and communities. A shock to labor mobility from Sweden to Norway caused a substantial …
E Harrington, ME Kahn - 2023 - reportds.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws …
When women become mothers, they often leave the labor force. Will the recent rise of work- from-home (WFH) reduce the motherhood penalty in the labor market, particularly in …
ABSTRACT A rich literature explores gender differences between men and women, but an increasing share of the population identifies their gender in some other way. Analyzing data …
Injustices are, in the first instance, brute acts of identifiable individuals. But they are typically perpetuated, more subtly, through seemingly innocent workings of innocuous social …