The rise of the “gig economy” has attracted wide attention from both scholars and the
popular media. Much of this attention has been devoted to jobs mediated through various …

Alternative work arrangements, defined both by working conditions and by workers'
relationship to their employers, are heterogeneous and common in the United States. This …

We use detailed administrative data to study the adjustment of local labor markets to
industrial robots in Germany. Robot exposure, as predicted by a shift-share variable, is …

We investigate the wage, employment, and reallocation effects of the introduction of a
nationwide minimum wage in Germany that affected 15% of all employees. Based on …

The fall of labor's share of GDP in the United States and many other countries in recent
decades is well documented but its causes remain uncertain. Existing empirical …

We synthesize two related literatures on firm-level drivers of wage inequality. Studies of rent
sharing that use matched worker-firm data find elasticities of wages with respect to value …

What is the most efficient way to respond to recessions in the labor market? To this question,
policymakers on the two sides of the pond gave diametrically opposed answers during the …

This article analyzes how patent-induced shocks to labor productivity propagate into worker
compensation using a new linkage of US patent applications to US business and worker tax …

This article estimates workers' preferences for firms by studying the structure of employer-to-
employer transitions in US administrative data. The article uses a tool from numerical linear …

A rich understanding of macro-economic outcomes requires taking into account the large
(and increasing) differences between firms. These differences stem in large part from …