Rising income inequality has recently come centre‐stage as a core societal concern for rich
countries. The diagnosis of the forces driving inequality upwards and their relative …

The growth of the “gig” economy generates worker flexibility that, some have speculated, will
favour women. We explore this by examining labour supply choices and earnings among …

Abstract Using Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) microdata over the 1980–2010
period, we provide new empirical evidence on the extent of and trends in the gender wage …

We show that widely-used subjective assessments of employee``potential''contribute to
gender gaps in promotion and pay. Using data on 29,809 management-track employees …

I document trends in local industrial concentration from 1976 through 2015 and estimate
effects of concentration on earnings outcomes. Local concentration generally declined over …

When jobs offered by different employers are not perfect substitutes, employers gain wage-
setting power; the extent of this power can be captured by the elasticity of labor supply to the …

Thousands of establishments employing millions of workers change ownership each year,
sometimes leading to large changes in local labor market concentration that potentially …

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 …

It is increasingly recognized that labor markets are pervasively imperfectly competitive, that
there are rents to the employment relationship for both worker and employer. This chapter …

We analyze how separations responded to arbitrary differences in own and peer wages at a
large US retailer. Regression-discontinuity estimates imply large causal effects of own …