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FINANCIAL INCENTIVES AND EARNINGS OF DISABILITY INSURANCE RECIPIENTS: EVIDENCE FROM A NOTCH DESIGN

LOCAL LABOR MARKETS AND NATURAL RESOURCES: A SYNTHESIS OF THE LITERATURE

THE IMPACT OF STRICTER CRITERIA FOR DISABILITY INSURANCE ON LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION

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Sebastian Portrait

Sebastian Fossati

Associate Professor

University of Alberta

 Dmytro Portrait

Dmytro Hryshko

Professor

University of Alberta

 Xingfei Portrait

Xingfei Liu

Associate 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

2025-05

Large Language Models, Small Labor Market Effects

We examine the labor market effects of AI chatbots using two large-scale adoption surveys (late 2023 and 2024) covering 11 exposed occupations (25, 000 workers, 7, 000 workplaces), linked to matched employer-employee…

2025-05

Entrepreneurial Spawning from Remote Work

Using a novel firm-level remote work measure created from big data on Internet activity, we show that firms with higher remote work during the pandemic are more likely to see their employees becoming…

2025-06

Self-Selection into Health Professions

The health sector requires skilled, altruistic, and motivated individuals to perform complex tasks for which ex-post incentives may prove ineffective. Understanding the determinants of self-selection…

Accounting for Firms in Ethnic Wage Gaps Across the Earnings Distribution

Most studies of ethnic wage gaps rely on household survey data. As such, they are unable to examine the degree to which wage gaps arise within or between firms. We contribute to the literature using high…

2025-06

Minimum wages and wage inequality in New Zealand

This paper addresses the effects of dramatic increases in minimum wages on wage inequality in New Zealand since 2000. Over this period the adult minimum wage increased more than 75% in CPI-adjusted real…

2025-06

Heterogeneous Effects of a Teacher Strike on Education and Labor Market Outcomes

We study the impact of a teacher strike on students still in compulsory school and about to choose their secondary education track. Using administrative data and a difference-in-differences approach,…

2025

An Overworked Leave? Health Care Workforce Effects of Brexit

We study the impact of the Brexit referendum on the quality of employment and working conditions of workers in the National Health Service (NHS). Using a difference-in-differences (DiD) design and propensity…

2025-04-29

Minimum wages and low wage workers: Compliance as non-employment margin

This paper examines the impact of a substantial minimum wage increase in Uruguay - a middle-income developing economy - on wages and employment. Using administrative data and a difference-in-differences…

2025-05

Shifting Work Patterns with Generative AI

We present evidence on how generative AI changes the work patterns of knowledge workers using data from a 6-month-long, cross-industry, randomized field experiment. Half of the 7, 137 workers in the study…

2025-05-29

Does the Expansion of Medicaid Lead to Income Adjustment---Evidence from SIPP

This study examines whether Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) led to strategic income reductions to qualify for coverage. Using monthly data from the Survey of Income and Program…

2025-05-06

Willingness to pay for workplace amenities

We develop a revealed preference approach to measure the value of workplace amenities by analyzing how variation in non-wage job attributes affects excess mass in the earnings distribution at budget discontinuities.…

2025-05

The Effects of Exposure to a Large-Scale Recession on Higher Education and Early Labor Market Outcomes

This study examines the effects of timing of exposure to the Asian financial crisis on higher education and early labor market outcomes. We estimate a generalized difference-in-differences model exploiting…

2025-06

Tourism and Growth in the Local Labor Market

This paper documents how the local labor market (LLM) responds to a change in touristic attractiveness. Leveraging largely underutilized data from several sources, we exploit a unique classification of…

2025-05

Well-Being, Isolation, and Lockdowns in the UK

Social connection is a key determinant of emotional well-being, yet the role of solitude in shaping both momentary affect and overall life satisfaction remains understudied. This paper investigates how…

2025-06-13

Public pensions in the age of automation

We analyze the impact of increased automation on the size and distribution of pension benefits, as well as on the optimal size and design of public pension systems. To this end, we build an overlapping…

Poor Health and Occupation Changes

Poor health impacts labour supply in varied and complex ways. This paper examines an under†explored aspect of this relationship: how suffering a health shock affects occupational mobility.…

2025-06-06

Does Gender Matter for Leaders' Behavior and Effectiveness? Insights from A Field Experiment

This study examines gender differences in leadership behavior and effectiveness using a framed field experiment conducted in a large company. Leaders and followers in randomly assigned teams interacted…

2025-05-14

Meaning at work

We evaluate a firm's unusual, worker-centered, solution to the agency problem: enabling employees to reduce the cost of effort rather than pushing them with performance rewards. We randomize the roll-out…

2025-06-17

Banking for Boomers – A Field Experiment on Technology Adoption in Financial Services

Digitalization in banking is leaving elderly clients at risk of losing access to financial services, but little is known about technology adoption at an advanced age. We develop and evaluate training…

2025

Trade and Domestic Distortions: The Case of Informality

We examine the effects of international trade in the presence of a set of domestic distortions giving rise to informality, a prevalent phenomenon in developing countries. In our quantitative model, the…

2025-06

Poverty Traps Driven by Family Bargaining

Poverty traps arise when households remain poor due to insufficient capital assets. While traditional mechanisms emphasize occupational choices, re-analysis of Balboni, Bandiera, Burgess, Ghatak and Heil…

Labour Economics

2025-05

Who You Gonna Call? Gender Inequality in External Demands for Parental Involvement

Gender imbalance in time spent on child rearing causes gender inequalities in labor market outcomes, human capital accumulation, and economic mobility. We conduct a large-scale field experiment with a…

2025-06

The Debt Burden of Job Loss in a Nordic Welfare State

Using linked employer-employee data combined with administrative data on debt enforcement, we analyze the impact of job loss on debt problems in Finland, where even 50% of income may be subject to wage…

2025

Child Penalties in Labour Market Skills

Child penalties in labour market outcomes are well-documented: after childbirth, employment and earnings of mothers drop persistently compared to fathers. Beyond gender norms, a potential driver could…

2025-05

Universal Pre-K as Economic Stimulus: Evidence from Nine States and Large Cities in the U.S.

While Universal Pre-Kindergarten (UPK) is often proposed as an economic stimulus, its market effects remain uncertain. We analyze UPK programs implemented across nine states and cities from 1995 to 2020,…

2025

Taxation and Migration by the Super-Rich

We study international migration responses of the super-rich to taxes using UK administrative data and a difference-in-differences design. We exploit a reform that removes access to a tax break on foreign…

2025-05

Job Amenity Shocks and Labor Reallocation

We introduce aggregate shocks to workers' value of job amenities in a frictional equilibrium model of the labor market with on-the-job search, where the job creation cost is sunk and quits trigger vacancies.…

2025-05

Location Effects or Sorting? Evidence from Firm Relocation

Why are wages in cities like New York or Paris higher than in others? This paper uses firm mobility to separate the role of “location effects” (e.g., local geography, infrastructure, and agglomeration)…

2025-06

A research note on the increasing income prerequisites of parenthood. Country-specific or universal in Western Europe?

Traditional economic theories link male income to higher fertility and female income to increased opportunity costs. However, shifting gender roles and socio-economic changes challenge these assumptions,…

2025-01

"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

Sick of Politics?

Political office involves stress, long hours, and media scrutiny, which may harm politicians' health. However, winning prestigious positions can increase social status, income, and connections, potentially…

2025

Leading Ladies, Lagging Ratings? Gender Bias in Evaluations of Movies

The movie industry provides a unique setting to analyze consumer-driven gender biases, as it allows clear identification of how the gender of leading actors, directors and producers influences movie performance…

2025-06-05

Work-life balance in the United States: women in the workforce and the policy challenges of a growing care economy

This paper explores the multifaceted challenges of achieving work-life balance in the United States as the country navigates the policy challenges of a growing care economy, particularly focusing on the…

2025

Trade Diversion and Labor Market Outcomes

In 2018 and 2019, the US administration increased tariffs on imports from China. Did these tariffs lead to more US imports from other countries such as Mexico? Using highly disaggregated data on the universe…

2025-05

Migration and Regime Change: Outflows Follow Democratic Decline, Inflows Fuel Illiberal Drift

This paper explores the two-way relationship between international migration and political regime change, emphasizing the potential for a feedback loop: political shifts influence migration patterns,…

2025-06

Welfare Reform: Consequences for the Children

This paper uses register-based data to analyze the consequences of a recent major Danish welfare reform for children's academic performance and well-being. In addition to work requirements, the reform…

2025-05-13

Nativity gaps in income poverty in Germany: Examining the role of gendered work intensity and wage patterns in couple households

In Germany, immigrants of different origins have higher income poverty rates than natives to varying but substantial degrees. In this study, I examine nativity gaps in income poverty among heterosexual…

2025-06-10

Unpacking the Link between Service Sector and Female Employment: Cross-Country Evidence

"The surge in women’s participation in the workforce has been a defining feature of advanced economies in recent decades. This paper explores cross-country variations in the relationship between…

2025-06

Which Macroeconomic News Matters for Price-Setting?

We examine how macroeconomic news affects firms’ extensive-margin price-setting plans in a survey that we rolled out with randomized daily invitations. These plans predict future realized inflation.…

2025-05

Management and Firm Dynamism

We show better-managed firms are more dynamic in plant acquisitions, disposals, openings and closings in U.S. Census and international data. Better-managed firms also birth better-managed plants and improve…

2025

Polycrisis in Agrifood Systems: Climate-Conflict Interactions and Labor Dynamics for Women and Youth in 21 African Countries

This paper provides evidence on the impacts of armed conflict and climate change on individual labor intensity. Based on pooled labor force survey, climate, and conflict event data from 21 African countries,…

2028-06

Women Political Leaders as Agents of Environmental Change

This paper explores how female political leaders impact environmental outcomes and climate change policy actions using data from mixed-gender mayoral races in Brazil. Using a Regression Discontinuity…

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