Wage and job polarization are two defining phenomena that have characterized the US labor market from the 1980s to the late 2000s. Polarization has also differed distinctly between demographic subgroups, such as men and women. In addition, sorting patterns between workers and firms have changed over this period. This paper finds that technological change can account for a substantial part of th...

828 The Journal of Human Resources women in hiring and promotion practices, then to (2) differences in noncognitive skills, namely assertive negotiating, and finally, and least importantly, to (3) the possession of education and skills needed for high paying jobs (Hill and Silva 2005, p. 3). After decades of publications investigating male-female earnings differences, economists have formed a c...

This paper addresses microeconometri c evaluation by matching methods when the programs under consideratio n are heterogeneous . Assuming that selection into the different subprograms and the potential outcomes are independent given observable characteristics , estimators based on different propensity scores are compared and applied to the analysis of active labor market policies in the Swiss r...

In this paper, we examine whether the imperfections in the credit market spill over to the labor market. We examine the case of a country that experienced a very high degree of imperfections in the financial markets, but underwent substantial changes in 1992 due to the liberalization brought by the European unification and other institutional changes. Italy is therefore a good laboratory to stu...

Established migration theories are mostly based on capitalist market economies and downplay the role of institutions in internal migration and labor market processes. In socialist and transitional economies such as those in Russia and China, however, investigations of migration and the labor market must begin by examining the nature and consequences of state institutions. In this article, I arg...

This paper examines interactions between the labor market and crime. It seems reasonable to believe that changes in policy or technologies that affect the labor market might affect the extent of criminal activities, and vice versa–changes in the crime sector can affect the labor market. To analyze these interactions we construct a search-theoretic model where labor market outcomes and crimes ar...

This paper proposes a multi-industry trade model with integrated capital and goods markets. Labor market imperfections in line with Mortensen and Pissarides (Job Creation and Job Destruction in the Theory of Unemployment, 1994) give rise to unemployment and a channel for the government to influence markets through institutional changes. Labor market interventions feedback into the product marke...