It is well known that highly 'female' fields of study in tertiary education are char- acterized by higher fertility. However, existing work does not disentangle the selection-causality nexus. We use variation in gender composition of fields of study implied by the recent expansion of tertiary...

We measure the importance of candidate characteristics listed on ballots for a candidate's position on a slate, for preferential votes received by a candidate, and, ultimately, for getting elected. We focus on the effects of gender, various types of academic titles, and also several novel...

This paper uses U.S. micro level data on employment durations to quantify the effect of potential Unemployment Insurance (UI) entitlement on job separations. Economic theory motivates estimation of a competing risk hazard model for quits and layoffs. The estimation procedure simultaneously...

Transition countries are in the process of introducing Western-type anti-discrimination policies aimed at reducing the gender wage gap. Each of these policies affects a different part of the gap. In this paper, large matched employer-employee data sets from the Czech Republic and Slovakia are...

This note provides the motivation to fill a gap in the empirical literature by showing that the optimal firm response to workers' job search behaviour (Mortensen, Industrial and Labor Relations Review 30: 505-517, 1977) is to lay off those workers with high unemployment insurance and recall...