Gender differences in negotiation: can interventions reduce the gap?

MP Recalde, L Vesterlund - Annual Review of Economics, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Gender differences in negotiation are seen as contributing to the persistent gender gaps in
labor market outcomes. We review the literature on interventions aiming to mute differences …

[PDF][PDF] Show Me the Amenity: Are Higher-Paying Firms Better All Around?

J Sockin - 2022 - aeaweb.org
Do firms that pay more offer better amenities, or does the greater pay compensate for worse
amenities? Using matched US employee-employer data, this paper estimates the joint …

Do employees cheer for private equity? the heterogeneous effects of buyouts on job quality

W Gornall, OR Gredil, ST Howell, X Liu… - Management …, 2024 - pubsonline.informs.org
We show that private equity leveraged buyouts reduce perceived job quality despite not
impacting average base pay. This appears to reflect employees bearing more risk. Both job …

Non-disclosure agreements and externalities from silence

J Sockin, A Sojourner, E Starr - 2024 - papers.ssrn.com
Do employment restrictions which prohibit workers from disclosing misconduct at work,
which we refer to asbroad non-disclosure agreements'(NDAs), distort labor markets? We …

The global distribution of college graduate quality

P Martellini, T Schoellman… - Journal of Political …, 2024 - journals.uchicago.edu
We measure college graduate quality—the average human capital of a college's graduates—
for graduates from 2,800 colleges in 48 countries. Graduates of colleges in the richest …

What's the inside scoop? challenges in the supply and demand for information on employers

J Sockin, A Sojourner - Journal of Labor Economics, 2023 - journals.uchicago.edu
Workers struggle to understand prospective employers. Through experienced workers'
volunteered reviews, Glassdoor is a platform seeking to provide information about …

Caught in the act: How corporate scandals hurt employees

S Gadgil, J Sockin - Available at SSRN 3638358, 2020 - papers.ssrn.com
We study how corporate scandals affect workers. Following the revelation of misconduct,
employee sentiment decreases sharply and persistently, driven by diminished perceptions …

Gender inequality in performance-related pay: a gap in the EU equal pay agenda

K Arabadjieva, W Zwysen - ETUI Research Paper-Policy Brief, 2022 - papers.ssrn.com
Gender pay inequalities have been high on the EU agenda in recent years, and even more
so in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. The EU gender pay gap remains at a significant 14.1 …

[PDF][PDF] What's the Inside Scoop? Challenges in the Supply and Demand for Information about Job Attributes

J Sockin, A Sojourner - Journal of Labor Economics …, 2023 - conference.iza.org
Workers struggle to understand prospective jobs and employers. Glassdoor is an online
platform that offers jobseekers information about prospective employers from other workers' …

Variable pay and risk sharing between firms and workers

J Sockin, M Sockin - Available at SSRN 3774639, 2021 - papers.ssrn.com
Firms differ in the extent to which they use variable pay. Using US employee-employer
matched data on variable pay from Glassdoor, we document such dispersion and find …