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Recently developed effort regulation models argue that labor markets are segmented because of differences in the technology of supervision across firms. primary jobs pay above market clearing wages be
Replication package for "Self-employment and Labor Market Risks" published at the International Economic Review Abstract: I study the labor market risks associated with being self-em
We estimate the labor market impacts of Brazils 1993 outsourcing legalization using North-South variation in pre-legalization court permissiveness, and comparing security guards to less-affected occup
Using data from 17 OECD countries over the 1960-96 period, we investigate the impact of institutions on the relative employment of youth, women, and older individuals. Theoretically, we show that labo