Understanding whether labor market discrimination explains inferior labor market outcomes
for many groups has drawn the attention of labor economists for decades—at least since the …

This article surveys supervisors' ratings, analyses of piece-rates and employer-employee
datasets as well as other approaches used to estimate how individual productivity varies …

This paper analyzes the role of establishments in the upward trend in dispersion of earnings
that has become a central topic in economic analysis and policy debate. It decomposes …

We design and implement a large-scale resume correspondence study to address
limitations of existing field experiments testing for age discrimination that may bias their …

This paper shows that the United Kingdom since 1975 has exhibited a pattern of job
polarization with rises in employment shares in the highest-and lowest-wage occupations …

I got involved in studying the economics of beauty in a curi‑ous way. Early in 1993, I noticed
that the data I was using on another research project included interviewers' ratings of the …

Firms are more productive, on average, in larger cities. Two main explanations have been
offered: firm selection (larger cities toughen competition, allowing only the most productive to …

What happens if an employer cuts wages by one cent? Much of labor economics is built on
the assumption that all the workers will quit immediately. Here, Alan Manning mounts a …

Using data from a unique nationally representative sample of businesses, we examine the
impact of workplace practices, information technology, and human capital investments on …

I assess the magnitude of human capital spillovers by estimating production functions using
a unique firm-worker matched data set. Productivity of plants in cities that experience large …