How Colombian firms responded to new apprenticeship regulations
Santiago Caicedo, Miguel Espinosa, and Arthur Seibold investigate firm responses to apprenticeship programs and how firms can be effectively incentivized to train apprentices.
Topic Archive: Labor Economics
Bidding for the better jobs: gender differences in competitiveness
Andrej Angelovski, Jordi Brandts, and Werner Güth conduct a novel experiment in which men and women obtain ranked positions in stylized hierarchies by bidding against each other.
Who is Afraid of Machines?
Sotiris Blanas, Gino Gancia and Sang Yoon (Tim) Lee study how the widespread use of different machines affected different groups of workers in the recent past.
Economic Shocks, Labor Migration and the Family Left Behind
André Gröger uses a dataset of Vietnamese households with international migrants to show that domestic and foreign migration decisions are interrelated and jointly determine outcomes at origin.
Digitalization: Not so disruptive after all
Aina Gallego, Thomas Kurer and Nikolas Schöll empirically analyze the political consequences of digitalization.
Firing the wrong workers
Andrea Caggese, Vicente Cuñat and Daniel Metzger study how financing constraints affect the firing decisions of firms.
