The US government in 2025 imposed a $100,000 tax on each high-skill foreign worker entering with an H-1B work visa. The …

We evaluate a firm’s unusual, worker-centered, solution to the agency problem: enabling employees to reduce the cost of …

This paper analyzes the possibility of creating worker cooperatives in which members are paid not through wages but … members and non-member outside investors, thus addressing the problem of the under-capitalization of worker cooperatives. It … structure in the absence of fixed wages would promote job stability, as already observed in existing worker cooperatives. …

We use US longitudinal survey data to examine the role of performance pay (other than profit sharing) in worker quit … account for worker and employer characteristics, aggregate earnings and worker job satisfaction, performance pay is associated … with a reduced probability of worker quits. This remains when including worker fixed effects that control for unmeasured …