This paper studies how employment subsidies for start-ups shape their performance. We exploit an unexpected policy reform in Belgium that permanently exempted start-ups hiring their first employee from payroll taxes for that employee. Using firm-level administrative data and a...

National payroll data reveal that men are paid more than women when they enter firms in Great Britain. Although this hiring wage gap has narrowed over the past two decades, it still accounts for over two-thirds of the steady-state gender pay gap – the wage gap that would eventually...

Child soldiering has been identified as one of the most prevalent human rights violations perpetrated by rebels. The aim of this research is to elucidate the potential influence of third parties, external supporters, on child soldiering by rebels. The research hypothesises that rebel's...

Screening human capital based on signals such as job applications or entrepreneurial pitches is crucial for organizations. Signals are often informative insofar as they require differential knowledge and effort to produce. Generative AI (GAI) complicates screening by lowering the cost of...

In tight labour markets, where employers compete not only on wages but also on amenities such as job family friendliness, employer-provided childcare arrangements serve as a powerful tool to attract and retain working parents. Yet little causal evidence exists on how employees evaluate such...

Screening human capital based on signals such as job applications or entrepreneurial pitches is crucial for organizations. Signals are often informative insofar as they require differential knowledge and effort to produce. Generative AI (GAI) complicates screening by lowering the cost of...

This paper studies how employment subsidies for start-ups shape their performance. We exploit an unexpected policy reform in Belgium that permanently exempted start-ups hiring their first employee from payroll taxes for that employee. Using firm-level administrative data and a...

We show that the age composition of employment within Swedish employers shifts after the arrival of generative AI, with no corresponding reduction in aggregate labour demand. Using 4.6 million job advertisements from Sweden’s largest recruitment platform, we find that the broad decline in...

Can employer-side wage subsidies increase hiring women in low female labor force participation settings? This paper tests this using a randomized experiment with 1,227 Pakistani firms on a national jobs platform. Treatment firms were offered a six-month wage subsidy determined via the...

Hiring discrimination against candidates from ethnocultural minority groups is a persistent concern in contemporary labour markets. This study examines how professional recruiters evaluate fictitious job applicants with profiles that systematically vary in signals that form ethnocultural...

This paper studies how employment subsidies for start-ups shape their performance. We exploit an unexpected policy reform in Belgium that permanently exempted start-ups hiring their first employee from payroll taxes for that employee. Using firm-level administrative data and a...

Belgium's 2016 payroll tax exemption for first-time employers triggered a sharp increase in firms hiring their first worker but little growth among larger firms. To account for this pattern, we develop and estimate a directed search model - with discrete hiring, firm heterogeneity, and...

LLMs are rapidly entering the hiring process, but their most pronounced effects may occur before any screening by changing who chooses to apply. We study how human versus LLMbased evaluation and gender transparency shape entry into competitive jobs. In a preregistered online experiment,...

Recent technological advancements are reshaping pathways to employment by automating the interview process. Asynchronous interviews, in which job applicants submit answers to interview questions via an online platform without interacting with an interviewer, are replacing more traditional...

We study economic narratives - causal accounts of observed events - in a high-stakes real-world context: long-term unemployment. We use open-ended questions to measure narratives about long-term unemployment in samples of Danish unemployed job seekers, firm managers, households from the general...

LLMs are rapidly entering the hiring process, but their most pronounced effects may occur before any screening by changing who chooses to apply. We study how human versus LLMbased evaluation and gender transparency shape entry into competitive jobs. In a preregistered online experiment,...

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In einer zunehmend vielfältigen Gesellschaft ist es wichtig, dass auf dem Arbeitsmarkt alle die gleichen Chancen haben. Studien zeigen jedoch, dass dies aufgrund von Ungleichbehandlung etwa bei der Arbeitsuche nicht immer der Fall ist. Ein breiteres Wissen in der Öffentlichkeit über das...

Deutschland sieht sich mit einer verschärften Bedrohungslage konfrontiert. Infolge des russischen Angriffskriegs auf die Ukraine wurde bereits eine "Zeitenwende" ausgerufen. Die Steigerung der Verteidigungsfähigkeit beinhaltet auch einen deutlichen Personalaufbau bei der Bundeswehr. Die Zahl...

Fachkräfte sind knapp - das spüren Unternehmen bei der Personalgewinnung deutlich. Einer repräsentativen Befragung des KOFA zufolge erleben 14,7 Prozent der befragten Unternehmen, dass Bewerberinnen und Bewerber einen Arbeitsvertrag unterschreiben, anschließend aber die Stelle nicht...

Economic experiments have gained popularity in Agricultural Economics. However, challenges in recruitment and acceptance of experimental methods among farmers persist. Surveying 406 Swedish farmers, we explore farmers' attitudes toward different types and features of economic experiments. Only a...

Microeconomic theory posits that in competitive markets, wages are determined by the marginal revenue product of labor. This study empirically tests this theoretical prediction using comprehensive firm-level register data from Finland's manufacturing and service industries in years 2000-2022. We...

Finland offers a subsidy to employers for hiring individuals with low employment prospects. In 2015, changes to the subsidy's funding caused some regions to unexpectedly suspend new subsidy grants. I examine wages and employment in these regions using a differences-in-differences setting, with...

Wage information is rare in job adverts, yet crucial for search. To study this information friction, we run a field experiment with real vacancies, randomly adding or withholding wage information. Disclosing wages does not change average application volumes. Instead, it amplifies the wage...

The rising incidence of alternative work arrangements, such as outsourcing, raises important questions about worker outcomes in such non-standard labor contracts. We study this question in the Netherlands, a country with a rapid rise in flexible labor contracts, using administrative...