Generative artificial intelligence (AI) holds the potential to either complement workers by
enhancing their productivity or substitute them. We examine the short-term effects of the …

Newly-developed large language models (LLM)—because of how they are trained and
designed—are implicit computational models of humans—a homo silicus. LLMs can be …

We estimate the effect of minimum wages on low-wage jobs using 138 prominent state-level
minimum wage changes between 1979 and 2016 in the United States using a difference-in …

The rise of the platform economy into statelike dominance over the lives of entrepreneurs,
users, and workers. The early Internet was a lawless place, populated by scam artists who …

This paper discusses non-employment margins through which firms may respond to
minimum wage increases. Margins of interest include evasion, output prices, noncash …

Can e-governance reforms improve government policy? By making information available on
a real-time basis, information technologies may reduce the theft of public funds. We analyze …

This chapter surveys the literature on the impact of minimum wages on low-wage labor
markets. We describe and critically review the empirical methods in the new minimum wage …

We estimate the minimum wage's effects on low-skilled individuals' employment and income
trajectories following the Great Recession. Our approach exploits two dimensions of the data …

Referred workers are more likely than nonreferred workers to be hired, all else equal. In
three field experiments in an online labor market, we examine why. We find that referrals …

This paper shows that more highly concentrated labour markets experience more positive
employment effects of the minimum wage. In the most concentrated labour markets …