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- 2018
- Chapter
Digital Labor Markets and Global Talent Flows
By: John Horton, William R. Kerr and Christopher Stanton
Horton, John, William R. Kerr, and Christopher Stanton. "Digital Labor Markets and Global Talent Flows." Chap. 3 in High-Skilled Migration to the United States and Its Economic Consequences, edited by Gordon H. Hanson, William R. Kerr, and Sarah Turner, 71–108. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2018.
- 1999
- Working Paper
Unemployment Shocks and Endogenous Labor Market Institutions
By: Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch
Di Tella, Rafael, and Robert MacCulloch. "Unemployment Shocks and Endogenous Labor Market Institutions." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 00-035, November 1999.
- November 2020
- Article
Tackling Youth Unemployment: Evidence from a Labor Market Experiment in Uganda
By: Livia Alfonsi, Oriana Bandiera, Vittorio Bassi, Robin Burgess, Imran Rasul, Munshi Sulaiman and Anna Vitali
We design a labor market experiment to compare demand- and supply-side policies to tackle youth unemployment, a key issue in low-income countries. The experiment tracks 1700 workers and 1500 firms over four years to compare the effect of offering workers either...
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Alfonsi, Livia, Oriana Bandiera, Vittorio Bassi, Robin Burgess, Imran Rasul, Munshi Sulaiman, and Anna Vitali. "Tackling Youth Unemployment: Evidence from a Labor Market Experiment in Uganda." Econometrica 88, no. 6 (November 2020): 2369–2414.
- July 2005
- Article
The Consequences of Labor Market Flexibility: Panel Evidence Based on Survey Data
By: Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch
We introduce a new data set on hiring and firing restrictions for 21 OECD countries for the period 1984 –1990. The data are based on surveys of business people in the countries covered, so the indices we use are subjective in nature. Controlling for country and time...
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Keywords:
Job Security Provisions;
Subjective Data;
Unemployment;
Employment;
Labor;
Markets;
Data and Data Sets
Di Tella, Rafael, and Robert MacCulloch. "The Consequences of Labor Market Flexibility: Panel Evidence Based on Survey Data." European Economic Review 49, no. 5 (July 2005): 1225–59.
- October 1997
- Article
Vacancy Chains and Equilibration in Senior-Level Labor Markets
By: Y. Blum, A. E. Roth and U. G. Rothblum
Blum, Y., A. E. Roth, and U. G. Rothblum. "Vacancy Chains and Equilibration in Senior-Level Labor Markets." Journal of Economic Theory 76, no. 2 (October 1997): 362–411.
- 2007
- Chapter
Labor Market Regulations and European Venture Capital Investment
By: Ant Bozkaya and William R. Kerr
- 04 Mar 2015
- What Do You Think?
Can a Laissez-Faire Approach Fix Labor Market Inequality?
Summing Up When Is It In An Employer's Self-Interest to Voluntarily Raise All Wages? A laissez-faire approach to fixing labor market inequality has widespread appeal, judging by responses to this month's...
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- 2003
- Other Unpublished Work
Sources of Structural Inequality in Managerial Labor Markets
By: Rakesh Khurana and Mikolaj J. Piskorski
- April 1996
- Article
The National Resident Matching Program as a Labor Market
By: A. E. Roth
Roth, A. E. "The National Resident Matching Program as a Labor Market." JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association 275, no. 13 (April 1996): 1054–1056.
- Winter 2014
- Article
Labor Regulations and European Venture Capital
By: Ant Bozkaya and William R. Kerr
European nations substitute between employment protection regulations and labor market expenditures (e.g., unemployment insurance benefits) for providing worker insurance. Employment regulations more directly tax firms making frequent labor adjustments than other labor...
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Bozkaya, Ant, and William R. Kerr. "Labor Regulations and European Venture Capital." Journal of Economics & Management Strategy 23, no. 4 (Winter 2014): 776–810.
- October 2006
- Article
Stretchwork: Managing the Career Progression Paradox in External Labor Markets
By: Siobhan O'Mahony and Beth Bechky
O'Mahony, Siobhan, and Beth Bechky. "Stretchwork: Managing the Career Progression Paradox in External Labor Markets." Academy of Management Journal 49, no. 5 (October 2006): 918–941.
- 14 Sep 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Digital Labor Market Inequality and the Decline of IT Exceptionalism
- 28 May 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
Labor Market Shocks and the Demand for Trade Protection: Evidence from Online Surveys
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by Rafael Di Tella and Dani Rodrik
- 2009
- Working Paper
Labor Regulations and European Private Equity
By: Ant Bozkaya and William R. Kerr
European nations substitute between employment protection regulations and labor market expenditures (e.g., unemployment insurance benefits) for providing worker insurance. Employment regulations more directly tax firms making frequent labor adjustments than other labor...
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Keywords:
Venture Capital;
Private Equity;
Insurance;
Investment;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Taxation;
Employment;
Europe
Bozkaya, Ant, and William R. Kerr. "Labor Regulations and European Private Equity." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-043, December 2009.
- 2009
- Working Paper
Labor Regulations and European Private Equity
By: Ant Bozkaya and William R. Kerr
European nations substitute between employment protection regulations and labor market expenditures (e.g., unemployment insurance benefits) for providing worker insurance. Employment regulations more directly tax firms making frequent labor adjustments than other labor...
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- December 2014
- Article
Market Competition, Earnings Management, and Persistence in Accounting Profitability Around the World
We examine how cross-country differences in product, capital, and labor market competition, and earnings management affect mean reversion in accounting return on assets. Using a sample of 48,465 unique firms from 49 countries, we find that accounting returns mean...
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Keywords:
Corporate Performance;
Valuation;
Equity Valuation;
Persistence;
Competitive Advantage;
Institutions;
Earnings Management;
Labor Market;
Capital Markets;
Competition;
Profit;
Performance;
Supply and Industry;
Financial Statements;
Government and Politics;
Globalized Markets and Industries
Healy, Paul M., George Serafeim, Suraj Srinivasan, and Gwen Yu. "Market Competition, Earnings Management, and Persistence in Accounting Profitability Around the World." Review of Accounting Studies 19, no. 4 (December 2014): 1281–1308.
- 2007
- Chapter
Labor Market Regulations and European Restructuring: Evidence from Private Equity Investments
By: Ant Bozkaya and William R. Kerr
Keywords:
Labor;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Restructuring;
Private Equity;
Investment;
Europe
Bozkaya, Ant, and William R. Kerr. "Labor Market Regulations and European Restructuring: Evidence from Private Equity Investments." In Essays in Entrepreneurial Finance, by Ant Bozkaya, 151–189. Université libre de Bruxelles, 2007. (Reprinted in Entrepreneurial Finance: Financing Young, Innovative Ventures, (Saarbrüken, Germany: VDM Verlag, 2009), 140-176.)
- 2014
- Working Paper
Multinational Firms, Labor Market Discrimination, and the Capture of Competitive Advantage by Exploiting the Social Divide
By: Jordan I. Siegel, Lynn Pyun and B.Y. Cheon
The organizational theory of the multinational firm holds that foreignness is a liability, and specifically that lack of embeddedness in host-country social networks is a source of competitive disadvantage; meanwhile the literature on labor market discrimination...
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Keywords:
Prejudice and Bias;
Human Capital;
Selection and Staffing;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Competitive Advantage;
Markets;
Profit;
Gender;
South Korea
Siegel, Jordan I., Lynn Pyun, and B.Y. Cheon. "Multinational Firms, Labor Market Discrimination, and the Capture of Competitive Advantage by Exploiting the Social Divide." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-011, August 2010. (Revised February 2014.)
- 2008
- Working Paper
Structural Closure and Exposure: Formation of Structural Inequality in Managerial Labor Markets
By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski
Positional advantages arise when actors obtain rewards attached to positions they occupy, but these rewards are not merited by their performance. Existing theory suggests that in competitive markets there should be no positional advantages. This paper proposes a model...
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