This paper provides evidence from the US and Denmark that managers with a business
degree (“business managers”) reduce their employees' wages. Within five years of the …

We study the impact of a large payroll tax cut for older workers in Hungary. Motivated by the
predictions of a standard equilibrium job search model, we examine the heterogeneous …

Why do firms differ in the wages paid to otherwise identical workers and in the share of
revenue that they allocate to labor? This paper explores the role of production networks …

This paper investigates the impact of foreign demand shocks on emission intensity using
data from Chinese manufacturing exporters. We construct a Bartik instrument for changes in …

How much can employers in low-and middle-income countries suppress wages below
marginal productivity? Using plant and customs data from Colombia, we exploit …

This study adds to the growing literature on wage and employment responses to the risk of
job computerization. Specifically, it revisits the original occupational perspective and …

We evaluate the education and labour impact of vocational education and training (VET).
Identification draws on a reform to reduce early school leaving, which involved a large-scale …

This paper builds, identifies and estimates a model of the labor market that features strategic
interactions in wage setting and two-sided heterogeneity in order to shed light on the …

In standard models of labor market monopsony, the profits derived from firm monopsony
power depends on the firm's labor supply elasticity. There are two puzzles facing these …

This paper draws on employer-employee and longitudinal plant data from Mexico to
investigate the impact of exports on wage premiums, defined as wages above what workers …