This article examines the impact of unemployment insurance on the allocation of labor across industries. An overlooked aspect of unemployment insurance is the effect of imperfect experience rating on hiring. Firms in more stable industries generally pay more into the unemployment insurance...

The authors estimate employer-specific wage, tenure, and wage growth differentials using a unique Bureau of Labor Statistics' establishment survey of full-time, white-collar workers. Employer wage and tenure differentials, conditional on worker characteristics, are substantial in these data....

This article studies the role of the family in determining the skill composition and labor-market experiences of immigrants in the United States. The authors' theoretical framework, based on the assumption that family migration decisions maximize household income, shows that the family...