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DO EMPLOYERS RESPOND TO THE COSTS OF CONTINUED SEARCH?

HOUSEHOLD DECISIONS AND THE GENDER GAP IN JOB SATISFACTION

SOCIAL AND LABOUR MARKET ASPECTS OF NORTH AMERICAN LINKAGES

Researchers

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Chad Portrait

Chad Saunders

Associate Professor

University of Calgary

 Ivan Portrait

Ivan Townshend

Professor

University of Lethbridge

 Laurel Wheeler Portrait

Laurel Wheeler

Assistant Professor

University of Alberta

New Economics Papers (from NEP)

The following works presented are external working papers published to the NEP-LMA and NEP-LAB RSS feeds. This content is provided to show a wider view of research being conducted across the areas of Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages, as well as Labour Economics. Works listed may have no relation to ACLMR or the ACLMR team and are published out of academic interest only.

Labour Markets

2025-03-12

Firm Pay and Worker Search

"Whether and how workers search on the job depends on their beliefs about pay and working conditions in other firms. Yet little is known about workers’ knowledge of outside pay. We use a large-scale…

2025

Skills, job application strategies, and the gender wage gap: Evidence from online freelancing

This paper examines how worker skills and job application behavior contribute to the gender wage gap on a major online freelancing platform. We observe significant occupational sorting by gender, with…

2025-04

Migration vs. automation as an answer to labour shortages: Firm-level analysis for Austria

Labour shortages in Europe have led firms to adopt two key strategies automation and the employment of migrants. This study empirically examines the relationship between robot adoption and immigrant labour…

2025

Marginalized Agency or Agency at the Margins: Domestic Workers and Informality

This paper explores informality in a high income country among women who, at least legally, can take on formal jobs. Specifically, we examine the determinants of paid domestic work in Israel through the…

2025-03

The Effect of Compulsory Education on non-Cognitive Skills: Evidence from Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Personality traits, preferences, and attitudes significantly influence labor market outcomes, and these non‐cognitive skills are shaped by the social environment. While curriculum interventions can…

2025-03

Climate Change, Labor Market Frictions, and Inequality

We model the impact of rising temperatures on labor productivity, labor market dynamics, and income inequality. Using a heterogeneous agent continuous-time (HACT) model with directed search, we analyze…

2025-04

Skill capabilities behind the scenes. The role of occupational portfolio in regional industrial evolution

An increasing number of studies confirm that regional diversification is path-dependent, with new industries building on pre-existing ones. However, these studies typically overlook the role of skill…

2025-04

The Composition of Firm Workforces from 2006–2022: Findings from the Business Dynamics Statistics of Human Capital Experimental Product

We introduce the Business Dynamics Statistics of Human Capital (BDS-HC) tables, a new Census Bureau experimental product that provides public-use statistics on the workforce composition of firms and its…

2025-03

Consequences of Affirmative Action: The Impact of Hiring a Female Professor

This paper studies how appointing a female professor through affirmative action affects hiring decisions and gender attitudes of faculty. For identification I use the introduction of a nationwide affirmative…

2025-03

Effects of monetary policy on labor income: the role of the employer

This paper investigates the role of firms in the transmission of monetary policy to individual labor market outcomes, both the intensive and extensive margins. Using German matched employer-employee administrative…

2025-03

Minimum Wage Shocks, Firms and Employment Evidence from Africa

Despite the widespread use of minimum wage policies to combat poverty in Africa, research on their effects remains limited. This paper addresses this gap by examining the economic impact of minimum wage…

2025

In the Land of AKM: Explaining the Dynamics of Wage Inequality in France

We use a newly constructed and quasi-exhaustive matched employer-employee database to study the contribution of firms to wage inequality in France. We implement a simple and tractable correction for the…

2025-03-04

Revenue and Cost Uncertainties and Market Power

Using administrative plant-level data from India, we estimate the effect of revenue and cost uncertainties on markup (product market power), markdown (labour market power), and combined market power.…

2025-03

Government Size, Civic Capital and Economic Performance: An O-ring approach

This paper explores how civic capital shapes the relationship between government size and economic performance. Building on an exogenous-growth version of Barro (1990), we incorporate O-ring technology…

2025-03

Accounting for the Multiple Sources of Inflation: an Agent-Based Model Investigation

We develop a macroeconomic agent-based model to study the role of demand and supply factors in determining inflation dynamics. Local interactions of heterogeneous firms and households in the labor and…

2025-03-11

Defensive Hiring and Creative Destruction

Defensive hiring of researchers by incumbent firms with monopsony power reduces creative destruction. This mechanism helps explain the simultaneous rise in R&D spending and decline in TFP growth in…

2025-02-24

Bargaining and Inequality in the Labor Market

"We use novel surveys of firms and workers, linked to administrative employer-employee data, to study the prevalence and importance of individual bargaining in wage determination. We show that simple…

Labour Economics

2025-05

Gendered labour market dynamics across generations: Parental and local determinants of the daugther-son pay gap

We examine how parental and local factors shape the gender pay gap between daughters and sons. Maternal labor market attachment significantly reduces gender disparities as it increases daughters' earnings…

2025-03

Problem or Opportunity? Immigration, Job Search, Entrepreneurship and Labor Market Outcomes of Natives in Germany

In this study we evaluate the effects of low-skilled immigration on small businesses, wages and employment in Germany. We develop a search and matching model with heterogeneous workers, cross-skill matching,…

2025-03-07

Health Insurance as Economic Stimulus? Evidence from Long-Term Care Jobs

"We leverage decades of administrative data and quasi-experimental variation in the introduction of universal long-term care (LTC) insurance in Germany in 1995 to examine whether health insurance…

2025-03

Refugee migration, unemployment and anti-asylum attitudes: Evidence from the 1990s Yugoslav refugee crisis

This paper examines the short- to long-term effects of large-scale refugee inflows on labour markets and anti-asylum attitudes. Using the exogenous arrival of Yugoslav refugees to Switzerland in the 1990s…

2025-04

Earnings volatility in Austria

This study analyzes earnings volatility in Austria from 1980 to 2018, providing a comprehensive view of individual income instability and its demographic and structural determinants. Using administrative…

2025-04

The impact of regional identity on hiring chances:an experiment examining employer bias

Regional mobility is crucial for addressing labour shortages, as jobseekers from one region may fill vacancies in another region with few local candidates. However, this requires a willingness amongst…

2025-04

A Theory of How Workers Keep Up With Infl ation

In this paper, we develop a model that combines elements of modern macro labor theories with nominal wage rigidities to study the consequences of unexpected inflation on the labor market. The slow and…

2025-03

Too much of a good thing? The macro implications of massive firm entry

Policies supporting small businesses are popular among policymakers but often criticised by economists for their potential to distort the economy. This paper provides a comprehensive evaluation of a unique…

2025-02

Skills, Migration, and Urban Amenities Over the Life Cycle

We examine sorting behavior across metropolitan areas by skill over individuals’ life cycles. We show that high-skill workers disproportionately sort into high-amenity areas, but do so relatively early…

2025

Endogenous Depopulation And Economic Growth

Fertility rates have declined dramatically across almost all highincome countries over the past decades. This has raised concerns about future economic prospects. Indeed, fully- and semi-endogenous growth…

2025-03

It's Not About the Money – Or Is It? Stereotypes and the Gender Application Gap

This study investigates how salary differences, gender stereotypes and prior leadership experience influence the willingness to pursue leadership roles. Using a controlled laboratory experiment, I focus…

2025-03-11

Small fish in a big (local) pond: EU directives, market concentration, and SME success in public procurement

This study examines the impact of local market concentration on the participation and success of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Swedish municipal cleaning service procurement auctions. A 10 percentage…

2025-04

Growth is wage-led in the long run

The literature on the empirical linkages between economic growth (or other measures of macroeconomic performance) and the functional distribution of income is copious on the short run. The sustained and…

2025

Shifting Preferences: COVID-19 and Higher Education Application

This paper provides descriptive evidence on how the COVID-19 pandemic influenced secondary school students’ application patterns to higher education in France, offering insights into the reallocation…

2025-01

The geography of the Robotisation-Health nexus Evidence from Italian provinces

This paper assesses the impact of local exposure to robots on the physical health of workers and the broader population’s mental health across Italian provinces. The empirical analysis relies on…

2025

Self-selection on human capital for Ukrainian refugees in Belgium

This study documents self-selection on human capital for Ukrainian refugees. We compare the socio-demographic characteristics of a representative sample of Ukrainian refugees who registered in Belgium…

2025-03

“China’s Import Competition, Innovation Strategies, and the Role of Unions”

This paper investigates the relationship between China’s import competition and the innovation strategies of domestic firms. Using firm level data from Italy spanning 2005-2010 and employing IV fixed…

2025-04-03

The role of business visits in fostering R&D investment

Labor mobility is considered a powerful channel to acquire external knowledge and trigger complementarities in the innovation and R&D investment strategies; however, the extant literature has focused…

2025-01

Parental Income and Higher Education: Evidence From France

This paper offers new stylized facts on inequality of enrollment in higher education according to parental income in France. On average, an increment of 10 percentiles in the parental income distribution…

2025-03

Automation and Diverging Health Risks

We examine the impact of automation on workers’ health risks. We first document that automation leads to a divergence in the severity of occupational health risks: while automation reduces nonfatal…

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