Video: Labor Market Risk and Skill Diversity (ERC Advanced Grant)
Jan Eeckhout talks about the objectives, challenges, and potential impact of his ERC Advanced Grant Project.
Topic Archive: Labor Economics
Does increasing minimum working age improve education, health and labor market outcomes?
Elena del Rey, Sergi Jiménez-Martín and Judit Vall-Castello explore the effects of a 1980 labor market reform in Spain that increased the statutory minimum working age.
Are big cities too small?
Jan Eeckhout and Nezih Guner analyze how federal income taxes affect the size of cities by characterizing how optimal taxes reallocate workers across cities in the United States, and the implications for the overall economy.
Searching for Finland: Education Policy and Labor Outcomes
Francesc Obiols-Homs and Virginia Sánchez-Marcos explore the role of education policy in shaping the abilities of workers, and the effect of changing policies to improve labor market outcomes in Spain.
“Pushing” through the data: Are migrants affecting wages?
Migration is a given. It happens. But what effect does it have on the wages of those already living in the destination country? Joan Llull develops a new estimation technique and uses push factors and distance to investigate how wages in the United States and Canada respond to immigration.
The culture of effort and the US-EU divide in labour market and firm-level outcomes
Barcelona GSE research on VoxEU.org by Alessandra Bonfiglioli and Gino Gancia
Differences in labour market and firm statistics between the US and Europe are easy to dismiss as cultural. This column applies an equilibrium model of worker screening and effort to cross-country data, showing that a large chunk of observed differences can be explained by the strategic interaction between firm and worker strategies. Evidence suggests that the US is in a high-screening, high-effort equilibrium, while southern Europe is in the complementary equilibrium. Perhaps culture is more economic than we might assume.
