Segregation in residential markets, labour markets, or school systems is often associated with the presence of tipping points in group composition. I use administrative data from Germany from 1975–2010 to study whether such tipping dynamics are also observed in the composition by nativity of...

Immigrants are more likely to have conationals as colleagues, however the consequences of such workplace segregation is an open question. I study the effect of the conational share in an immigrant’s first job on subsequent labour market outcomes using register data from Germany. I instrument...

During 2021 and 2022 many news media outlets have been reporting that millions of workers in the US have been quitting their jobs in record numbers. In a global economy rebounding from the economic downturn caused by the Covid-19 outbreak and demanding more workers, a high rate of resignations...

Several literatures in strategy propose models of the displacement of incumbent firms by newer firms that adopt newer technologies. While that pattern likely plays out often, it is also often the case in industries where incumbents adopt new technologies less intensively than the entrants are...

The nominal wage in Japan has remained stagnant for more than two decades. The objective of this thesis is to identify the causes of the country's long-term wage stagnation and reveal the mechanisms behind this phenomenon. I simulate wage movement by constructing a simple search-and-matching...

We propose a model of labor market sector self-selection that combinescomparative advantage, as in the Roy model, and sector composition preference.Two groups choose between two sectors based on heterogeneous potential incomesand group compositions in each sector. Potential incomes incorporate...

This study addresses the problem of improving the performance of water quality trading auctions when information about delivery coefficients of nonpoint sources is revealed to potential sellers. We consider the case in which a regulator participating in an auction market as a buyer of water...

Migration in its various forms, such as economic migration, is a central issue in contemporary research and politics. Our paper provides insights into the behavior of societies faced with the possibility of migratory inflow into their respective social security and welfare systems. In...

Ethnic minority men find it harder to obtain good jobs in the UK labour market than White British men. Over time, while the very high unemployment rates experienced by some non-white ethnic groups have significantly declined and their share of good jobs has grown, their share of bad jobs has...

Given the prevalence of dual directors who serve simultaneously on the parent as well as the subsidiary board, it is important to examine their functions, a topic largely ignored in the existing literature. Exploring the functions of dual directors highlights equity carve-out objectives other...