"We examine differences in jobs held by men and women based on a measure not used before, the standard human resources measures of "knowledge, skills, and abilities" generated by job analyses. While there is an abundance of evidence on gender disparities in pay, we know much less in detail about...

Pflegearbeit ist im heterogenen Personalmix aus Fach- und Assistenzkräften und aus akademisch ausgebildetem Personal organisiert. Die vorliegende Studie untersucht, wie der Qualifikationsmix Beruflichkeit und Arbeitszufriedenheit in der erwerbsförmig organisierten Pflege beeinflusst: Positive...

We evaluate the influence on the skill premium of the task content of jobs by exploiting the text data from online job ads covering 2009-2018 (over 189,000 ads) published by one of the leading Chilean online job portals (www.trabajando.com). Our analysis tests the expected complementarity...

We conduct a large-scale experiment in the labor market using more than 8,000 fictitious resumes to uncover the demand-side mechanisms behind the wage penalty for the self- employed. We find that self-employed individuals, compared to wage earners, are subject to adverse treatment across...