An international and historical look at how parenting choices change in the face of economic inequality Parents everywhere want their children to be happy and do well. Yet how parents …
I Sorkin - The quarterly journal of economics, 2018 - academic.oup.com
This article estimates workers' preferences for firms by studying the structure of employer-to- employer transitions in US administrative data. The article uses a tool from numerical linear …
We develop a theory of parent‐child relations that rationalizes the choice between alternative parenting styles (as set out in Baumrind, 1967). Parents maximize an objective …
A Nekoei, A Weber - American Economic Review, 2017 - aeaweb.org
Contrary to standard search models predictions, past studies have not found a positive effect of unemployment insurance (UI) on reemployment wages. We estimate a positive UI wage …
Most labor economics textbooks pay little attention to actual labor markets, taking as reference a perfectly competitive market in which losing a job is not a big deal. The …
We show that helping young job seekers signal their skills to employers generates large and persistent improvements in their labour market outcomes. We do this by comparing an …
D Acemoglu - Journal of labor Economics, 2001 - journals.uchicago.edu
This article develops a model of noncompetitive labor markets in which high-wage (good) and low-wage (bad) jobs coexist. Minimum wages and unemployment benefits shift the …
D Acemoglu, R Shimer - Journal of political Economy, 1999 - journals.uchicago.edu
This paper constructs a tractable general equilibrium model of search with risk aversion. An increase in risk aversion reduces wages, unemployment, and investment. Unemployment …
This paper argues that unemployment insurance increases labor productivity by encouraging workers to seek higher productivity jobs, and by encouraging firms to create …