reform in Argentina that shifted the disbursement responsibility of child benefits from employers to a government agency in a …. Our evidence suggests that employers capture about 6-14 percent of the transfers through lower wages when they mediate the … and employers exploited this confusion to extract rents. Our findings therefore accord with the hypothesis that transfers …

How informative are job ads about the actual pay and amenities offered by employers? Using a comprehensive database of … job ads posted by Norwegian employers, we develop a methodology to systematically classify the information on both pay and … pay-related attributes. High-pay employers mention pay-related attributes more often, while high-amenity employers are …