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A large literature demonstrates that occupational licensing is a labor market friction that distorts labor supply allocation and prices. We show that an occupational license serves as a job market signal, similar to education. In the presence of occupational licensing, we find evidence that firms rely less on observable characteristics such as race...
We evaluate the effect of health insurance on the incidence of negative income shocks using the tax data and survey responses of nearly 14,000 low income households. Using a regression discontinuity (RD) design and variation in the cost of nongroup private health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, we find that eligibility for subsidized Market...
Using U.S. time diary data we construct occupation-level measures of coordinated work schedules based on the concentration of hours worked during peak hours of the day. A higher degree of coordination is associated with higher wages but also a larger gender wage gap. In the data women with children allocate more time to household care and are penal...
Is Employment Polarization Informative about Wage Inequality and Is Employment Really Polarizing? DISCUSSION PAPER SERIES IZA DP No. 12472 Jennifer Hunt Ryan Nunn Is Employment Polarization Informative about Wage Inequality and Is Employment Really Polarizing? JULY 2019 Any opinions expressed in this paper are those of the author(s) and not those ...
Platform world is speeding the redesign of employment. Bricks-andmortar firms once hired through narrow portals and then invested in the workers they hired, providing job security and predictable career ladders. Platform world flings the doors wide open to income-generating efforts, providing new opportunities but also offering security and predict...
We examine the universe of tax returns in order to reconcile seemingly contradictory facts about the rise of alternative work arrangements in the United States. Focusing on workers in the “1099 workforce,” we document the share of the workforce with income from alternative, non-employee work arrangements has grown by 1.9 percentage points of the wo...
econstor Make Your Publications Visible. A Service of zbw Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft Leibniz Information Centre for Economics Demary, Vera; Rusche, Christian Research Report The economics of platforms IW-Analysen, No. 123 Provided in Cooperation with: German Economic Institute (IW), Cologne Suggested Citation: Demary, Vera; Rusche, Chr...
Something for Nothing: Universal Basic Income and the Value of Work Beyond Incentives Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice Volume 26 Issue 1 Article 3 1-10-2020 Something for Nothing: Universal Basic Income and the Value of Something for Nothing: Universal Basic...
A line between the sharing and collaborative economies through a comprehensive framework based on an analysis of Swiss start-up companies. 2019 A line between the sharing and the collaborative economies through a comprehensive framework based on an analysis of Swiss start-up companies ARINA GROSHEVA ACADEMIC YEAR 2018-2019 This paper was prepared ...
Platform work is a form of employment that uses an online platform to match the supply of and demand for paid labour. In Europe, platform work is still small in scale but is rapidly developing. The types of work offered through platforms are ever-increasing, as are the challenges for existing regulatory frameworks.
Even though social preferences affect nearly every facet of life, there exist many open questions on the economics of social preferences in markets. We leverage a unique opportunity to generate a large data set to inform the who’s, what’s, where’s, and when’s of social preferences through the lens of a nationwide tipping field experiment on the Ube...
Guest workers on visas in the United States may be unable to quit bad employers due to barriers to mobility and a lack of labor market competition. Using H-1B, H-2A, and H-2B program data, we calculate the concentration of employers in geographically defined labor markets within occupations. We find that many guest workers face moderately or highly...
Microsoft Word - e.710.Khan.805.docx 710 L I N A M . K H A N Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox abstract . Amazon is the titan of twenty-first century commerce. In addition to being a re- tailer, it is now a marketing platform, a delivery and logistics network, a payment service, a credit lender, an auction house, a major book publisher, a producer of tel...
AN ANALYSIS OF RETIREMENT MODELS TO IMPROVE PORTABILITY AND COVERAGE Alicia H. Munnell, Anek Belbase, and Geoffrey T. Sanzenbacher in conjunction with Summit Consulting, LLC SPECIAL REPORT FEBRUARY 2018 Center for Retirement Research at Boston College Hovey House 140 Commonwealth Avenue Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 Tel: 617-552-1762 Fax: 617-552-0191 h...
RETHINKING INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT SERIES Disrupted Development and the Future of Inequality in the Age of Automation Lukas Schlogl · Andy Sumner Series Editors Ray Kiely Queen Mary University of London London, UK Andy Sumner King’s College London, UK Rethinking International Development series Rethinking International Development is dedicated t...
Excerpt] In 2009, with support from Empire State Development (ESD), the Cornell University ILR School published its first report on the state of the New York arts and entertainment (A&E) workforce, Empire State’s Cultural Capital at Risk? Assessing Challenges to the Workforce and the Educational Infrastructure for New York State’s Arts and Entertai...
Microsoft Word - HSI_Band_22 Bernd Waas / Wilma B. Liebman / Andrew Lyubarsky / Katsutoshi Kezuka Crowdwork – A Comparative Law Perspective HSI-Schriftenreihe Band 22 Bernd Waas / Wilma B. Liebman / Andrew Lyubarsky / Katsutoshi Kezuka Crowdwork – A Comparative Law Perspective Bibliografische Information der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek Die Deutsc...
Exploring Universal Basic Income Exploring Universal Basic Income Exploring Universal Basic Income A Guide to Navigating Concepts, Evidence, and Practices Ugo Gentilini, Margaret Grosh, Jamele Rigolini, and Ruslan Yemtsov Editors © 2020 International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank 1818 H Street NW, Washington, DC 20433 Te...
Economics of Digital Transformation Economics of Digital Transformation Editors Saša Drezgić Saša Žiković Marko Tomljanović Faculty of Economics and Business ECONOMICS OF DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION Publisher University of Rijeka, Faculty of Economics and Business For the Publisher Alen Host Editors Saša Drezgić Saša Žiković Marko Tomljanović Reviewers...
Alternative Measures of Labor Underutilization
Alternative Measures of Labor Underutilization Percent Alternative measures of labor underutilization, seasonally adjusted Click and drag within the chart to zoom in on time periods U-1, persons unemployed 15 weeks or longer, as a percent of the civilian labor force U-2, job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs, as a percent of the civi...
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