Lost female talent: #Gender differences in college aspirations & expectations in Germany http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zbw:wzbpre:p2023002
…women express higher aspirations for college enrolment. Yet, they are more pessimistic about realising their aspirations. While… the subjective probability of success & perceived costs impact both genders, young women are also affected by formal restrictions limiting entry to their preferred fields of study
#leakyPipeline #LaborEconomics

Delighted to be presenting a big update, for the first time today at @georgemasonu, to our research on the effect of less-than-high-school immigrant employment on US firms and workers.

We use naturally randomized allocation of immigrant employment. Summary thread of the original paper last year—> https://econtwitter.net/@m_clem/109383474914893115

Update in writing coming soon!
#laboreconomics #immigration @laborecon

The Gender Gap in Earnings Losses after Job Displacement http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ajk:ajkdps:247&r=lab
"… women’s earnings losses are much higher than men’s, with the difference persisting and growing five years after job displacement. … One important reason for women’s higher earnings losses is their much higher propensity to take up part-time or mini-job employment after displacement"
#LaborEconomics #GenderPayGap #wages

External pay transparency and the gender wage gap http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zbw:rwirep:1027&r=lma
"… providing publicly available wage information in vacancies, so-called external #payTransparency, can reduce the #GenderWageGap… reduction in the gender wage gap was caused by an increase in women's earnings, particularly at the lower part of the distribution. Earnings of men, on the other side, remained largely constant"
#wages #LaborEconomics

The Matching Function: A Unified Look into the Black Box
http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:wpaper:hal-04136688
"…matching improves if there is less inequality in job access among job-seekers: asymmetries unambiguously aggravate miscoordination and hurt the matching process.
…expanding agents’ opportunities is not necessarily a good thing: more links can actually worsen matching"
#LaborMarkets #LaborEconomics #networks

Does Unfairness Hurt Women? The Effects of Losing Unfair Competitions http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:rco:dpaper:410&r=lab
"… strong evidence that both male & female participants who lost rather than won a tournament are less likely to enter a subsequent competition. Importantly,… women are less persistent than men after experiencing failure when they know that failure may have been the result of unfairness"
#ExperimentalEcon #LaborEconomics #meritocracy

Persistent #Overconfidence & Biased Memory: Evidence from Managers http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:iza:izadps:dp16283&r=lma
"…findings in this paper are consistent with managers being overconfident about their future relative performance in the workplace, despite substantial feedback. The evidence of overly-positive memories of past feedback, & a link between these & overconfident predictions, points to an explanation based on #motivatedBeliefs."
#BoundedRationality #LaborEconomics

There’s a new, definitive book on the economic history of US #immigration over the past century.

Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan have given us a myth-cracking and enduring work based on their own top research. My review is out today in #TheUnpopulist —> https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/a-landmark-study-debunks-populist #laboreconomics

https://wid.world/document/spatial-wage-inequality-in-north-america-and-western-europe-changes-between-and-within-local-labour-markets-1975-2019-world-inequality-lab-working-paper-2023-14/
"…trends in spatial wage #inequality in Canada, France, Germany, the UK & the USA from the mid-1970s to 2019. All countries experienced an increase in spatial inequality… In all countries except France, there is a strong trend of increased dispersion in wages paid at the top of the distribution between LLMAs, but for most countries some convergence in the lowest #wages paid across areas."
#LaborMarkets #LaborEconomics

Can we retrain older workers? https://forklightning.substack.com/p/can-we-retrain-older-workers
"More people should go back to school, and we should pay them to do it"
#LaborMarkets #LaborEconomics #Ageing

What Makes #Hiring Difficult? Evidence from Linked Survey-Administrative Data http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:iza:izadps:dp16268&r=lma
"Around thirty percent of employers prefer to hire the already employed over the unemployed because they believe that unemployed workers have lower abilities due to negative selection or skill depreciation during unemployment. Firms with such preferences are more likely to report hiring obstacles."
#LaborMarkets #LaborEconomics #Discrimination #wages

External Pay Transparency and the Gender Wage Gap http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:iza:izadps:dp16233&r=lma
Introducing external pay #transparency led to a small overall reduction of the #gender wage gap.
… reductions in the gender gap are due to women earning more, whereas men’s wages remain largely constant.
#LaborEconomics #wages #gpg #GenderPayGap

Cognitive Skills among Adults: An Impeding Factor for #Gender Convergence? http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ces:ceswps:_10428
"…suggest #numeracy skills used on the labor market are a possible important driver for wages that is not stable over time and can accumulate or depreciate depending on labor market participation and family responsibilities.
Hidden factors…may additionally discourage women from gaining & preserving higher numeracy levels."
#LaborMarkets #LaborEconomics

Wage Inequality in Germany after the Minimum Wage Introduction
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/720391
…influence of the 2015 #MinimumWage introduction for the recent decrease in wage #inequality…find that the minimum wage introduction has an impact on monthly wages up to the 50th percentile, illustrating the existence of spillovers
#LaborEconomics #wages

Committee Deliberation and #Gender Differences in Influence http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ajk:ajkdps:234&r=lab
… committees’ final hiring decisions are systematically less aligned with the initial recommendations of women than with those of men, even though women are equally qualified & experienced. The estimated distribution of influence reveals that almost all men are more influential than the median woman. #BehavioralEconomics #LaborEconomics

TIL about chickenization: https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/02/chickenized-by-arise/

#LaborEconomics

Nearly 80% of UK employers pay men more than women
https://www.ft.com/content/062e80a3-af13-4aef-9e11-942abc40f8dc
#GenderPayGap
#LaborEconomics

Daniel Hamermesh on the four-day work week and a lifetime of #LaborEconomics research
https://soundcloud.com/theworkgoesonpodcast/a-conversation-with-daniel-hamermesh/s-5XfE69oZs2g?si=ae06207355c045d1b49fe8c08eb02411
https://irs100.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/2023-03/009-TWGO-Hamermesh%20transcript.pdf
#4DayWeek

The Meaning of an Awesome Employment Report
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/10/opinion/the-meaning-of-an-awesome-employment-report.html
#LaborEconomics #wages

CAREER: Transfer Learning for Economic Prediction of Labor Sequence Data
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.08370
…forms accurate predictions of job sequences on 3 widely-used economics datasets.
…find that CAREER can be used to form good predictions of other downstream variables; incorporating CAREER into a wage model provides better predictions than the econometric models currently in use.
#DataScience #Econometrics #LaborEconomics