Each week, the Dutch Postcode Lottery (PCL) randomly selects a postal code, and distributes cash new BMW to lottery participants in that code. We study effects of these shocks on winners their neighbors. Consistent with life-cycle hypothesis, winners' consumption are largely confined cars other durables. theory in-kind transfers, vast majority liquidate BMWs. do, however, detect substantial social winnings: PCL nonparticipants who live next door have significantly higher levels car than...

Journal Article Is Internet Job Search Still Ineffective? Get access Peter Kuhn, Kuhn University of California, Santa Barbara, NBER and IZA for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Hani Mansour Colorado, Denver The Economic Journal, Volume 124, Issue 581, 1 December 2014, Pages 1213–1233, https://doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12119 Published: 04 April 2014 history Received: 05 September 2012 Accepted: 29 August 2013

Abstract We study explicit gender discrimination in a population of ads on Chinese Internet job board. Gender-targeted are common, favor women as often men, and much less common jobs requiring higher levels skill. Employers’ relative preferences for female versus male workers, the other hand, more strongly related to preferred age, height, beauty worker than skill levels. Almost two thirds variation advertised occurs within firms, one third firm*occupation cells. Overall, these patterns not...

Using the December 1998 and August 2000 CPS Computer Internet Supplements matched with subsequent files, we ask which types of unemployed workers looked for work on line whether searchers became reemployed more quickly. In our data, have observed characteristics that are typically associated shorter unemployment spells, do spend less time unemployed. This differential is however eliminated in some cases reversed when hold observable constant. We conclude either job search ineffective...

Controlling for cognitive skills, we find that men who occupied leadership positions in high school earn more as adults. The pure leadership‐wage effect varies, depending on definitions and time period, from 4% to 33%. This is not an artifact of measurement error skills or differences a wide array other physical psychological traits. High leaders are likely occupy managerial occupations adults, command higher wage premium within than elsewhere. Finally, it appears may be fostered by exposure...

According to U.S. Census and Current Population Survey (CPS) data, employed men are more likely work than 48 hours per week today 25 years ago. Using 1979–2006 CPS we show that this increase was greatest in the 1980s, among highly educated, paid, older men, workers paid on a salaried basis. We examine some possible explanations for these changes, including composition effects. Among increases long were detailed occupations industries with larger residual wage inequality slowly growing real...

We study worker behavior in an efficiency‐wage environment which coworkers' wages can influence a worker's effort. Theoretically, we show that increase workers' responsiveness to should lead profit‐maximizing firms compress wages. Our laboratory experiments, by contrast, while effort choices are highly sensitive their own wages, is not affected This casts doubt on the notion concerns with equity might explain pay policies such as wage compression or secrecy.

Journal Article Are Women More Attracted to Co‐operation Than Men? Get access Peter Kuhn, Kuhn University of California, Santa Barbara, NBER, IZA and CES Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Marie Claire Villeval Université de Lyon, CNRS‐GATE The Economic Journal, Volume 125, Issue 582, 1 February 2015, Pages 115–140, https://doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12122 Published: 04 April 2014 history Received: 18 2013 Accepted: 30 October

This paper surveys the contributions of laboratory experiments to labor economics. We begin with a discussion methodological issues: why (and when) is lab experiment best approach; how do compare field experiments; and what are main design issues? then summarize substantive our understanding principal-agent interactions, social preferences, union-firm bargaining, arbitration, gender differentials, discrimination, job search, markets more generally.

When employers' explicit gender requests were unexpectedly removed from a Chinese job board overnight, pools of successful applicants became more integrated: women's (men's) share callbacks to jobs that had requested men (women) rose by 61 (146) percent. The removal “worked” in this sense because it generated large increase gender-mismatched applications, and those applications treated surprisingly well employers, suggesting often represented relatively weak preferences or outdated...

Abstract Using 1980/81 and 1990/91 census data from Australia, Canada, the United States, we estimate effects of time in destination country on male immigrants' wages, employment, earnings. We find that total earnings assimilation is greatest States least Australia. Employment explains all progress experienced by Australian immigrants, whereas wage plays dominant role Canada falls between. argue relatively inflexible wages generous unemployment insurance countries like Australia may cause to...

Self‐employment has risen dramatically in Canada, accounting for a disproportionate share of job growth since the 1980s. Using hitherto unexploited information on labour force transitions from sixteen waves Survey Consumer Finances between 1982 and 1998, we show that changes transition patterns underlying these increases were very different women men. For women, most increase self‐employment is attributable to an retention rates self‐employment. men, decrease stability paid employment. thus...

The labor market behavior of aboriginal Canadians has been little studied by economists. This paper establishes some basic empirical regularities concerning the wages natives in Canada, applying techniques drawn from earnings function literature to Statistics Canada 1986 Census Public Use Sample Tape. raw wage gap between and white is relatively small compared with that other disadvantaged groups North America, it smaller for women than males. Differences observable characteristics such as...

In labor markets, the ratchet effect refers to a situation where workers subject performance pay choose restrict their output, because they rationally anticipate that firms will respond higher output levels by raising requirements or cutting pay. We model this as multiperiod principal-agent problem with hidden information and study its robustness market competition both theoretically experimentally. Consistent our theoretical model, we observe substantial effects in absence of competition,...

The wages and working conditions of about one in three Canadian workers are determined by collective bargaining. In this paper, current knowledge the economic effects bargaining is surveyed. Unions raise (by 15 percent on average) reduce wage dispersion for their members while also reducing profits. do not seem to employment levels affected firms or cause nonunion fall. Efficiency losses due sectoral misallocation labor strikes small but some evidence suggests lowered investment unionized...