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The Effects of Welfare Time Limits on Access to Financial Resources: Evidence from the 2010s
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Information, Intermediaries, and International Migration
Get PDFJob seekers face substantial information frictions, especially in international labor markets where intermediaries match prospective migrants with overseas employers. We conducted a randomized trial in Indonesia to explore how information about intermediary quality shapes migration outcomes. Holding access to information about the return to choosing a high-quality intermediary constant, intermediary-specific quality disclosure reduces the migration rate, cutting use of low-quality providers. Workers who do migrate receive better pre-departure preparation and have improved experiences abroad, despite no change in occupation or destination. These results are not driven by changes in beliefs about average provider quality or the return to migration. Nor does selection explain improved outcomes for those who migrate with quality disclosure. Together, our findings are consistent with an increase in the option value of search: with better ability to differentiate offer quality, workers search longer, select higher-quality intermediaries, and ultimately have better migration experiences
Deregulation of the Legal Professions in Poland: A Trade-Off between Market Growth and Professionalism?
Get PDFDisparities in Job Tenure: Can the Minimum Wage Help?
No full textPolicies to reduce turnover are increasingly important for their ability to reduce costs for employers and improve financial stability for workers. Critically, job turnover tends to be higher for marginalized groups in the labor market: women and workers of color. I propose to examine the impact of Seattle’s 2014 minimum wage law on job turnover for workers in low wage jobs, and to disaggregate impacts by gender and race using demographic and industry data from the Current Population Survey. Preliminary analysis shows that the policy reduced separations by 6.8 percent, supporting the theory that increased compensation will extend employer-employee matches. Through investigation of underlying mechanisms, and impacts by gender and race, this paper will inform policymakers across the country on how large increases in minimum wages affect employment flows and employment disparities in the low-wage labor market
Do Minimum Wage Hikes Exacerbate Racial Differences in Hiring?
No full textWe investigate the effect of increasing the minimum wage on labor market racial disparities using an audit study. Racial differences are measured by comparing the rate at which firms respond to fictitious job applicants with distinctly White and Black names. We applied to jobs before and after Arkansas and Missouri increased their minimum wages in January of 2019 and Illinois in 2020. Similar to past work, job applicants with distinctly Black names are 3 percentage points (17%) less likely to receive a callback than applicants with distinctly White names. However, we find that the Black-White callback gap shrinks by about 2 percentage points (70%) after the minimum wage increases
The Determinants of Disparities in Reservation Wages
No full textIn this project, we will use uniquely rich data on reservation wages for a large, representative sample of US unemployment insurance recipients, collected through the Benefit Accuracy Management (BAM) program since 1987. It allows us to precisely describe the heterogeneity of the reservation wage to prior wage ratio, and analyze its changes over time as well as how it relates to labor market conditions. In a first part, this project will document cross-sectional differences in reservation wages across demographic groups. We will particularly explore the potential drivers of differences across races. In a second part, this project will investigate the influence of labor market conditions. For identification, we will leverage variation across sectors and states
How Does Legal Status Affect Immigrants’ Internal Geographic Mobility? Evidence from DACA
No full textHistorically, US immigrants’ geographic mobility decisions have been more responsive to local labor market conditions than similarly skilled natives’. This helps local labor markets equilibrate after economic shocks. Often the argument is that immigrants are less tied to a particular geographic location. A secure legal status could either allow immigrants to engage in activities that make them more attached to a local area or allow them to engage in more risky, and costly, moves without the fear of deportation. Exploiting the 2012 introduction of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), I document how attaining legal status and employment rights affects immigrants’ propensity to engage in internal migration. In an event study framework, I find preliminary evidence that attaining legal status leads to more geographic mobility among young, Hispanic immigrants. Building on existing work, I can determine how this affects labor market dynamism, to see if this is a potential economic benefit of paths to legal status