This chapter reviews how expectations data can inform theories of the labor market and job
search. The main focus of the chapter is on expectations data regarding outcomes of the job …

This paper uses job seekers' elicited beliefs about job finding to disentangle the sources of
the decline in job-finding rates by duration of unemployment. We document that beliefs have …

The gender ask gap measures the extent to which women ask for lower salaries than
comparable men. This paper studies the role of the ask gap in generating wage inequality …

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation
(FPUC) increased US unemployment benefits by $600 a week. Theory predicts that FPUC …

In all OECD countries, mandatory notice (MN) policies require firms to inform workers in
advance of a layoff. In our theoretical framework, MN helps workers avoid unemployment …

Social connections and referrals are ubiquitous in the labour market, both on the job-seeker
side and on the employer side. This article reviews recent developments in the study of …

La triple crisis sanitaria, económica y social causada por la pandemia de COVID-19 ha
evidenciado diversos problemas estructurales de la economía y sociedad peruana, tales …

The job-finding rate of unemployment insurance (UI) recipients declines in the initial months
of unemployment and then exhibits a spike at the benefit exhaustion point. A range of …

Why is workplace sexual harassment chronically underreported? We hypothesize that
employers coerce victims into silence through the threat of a retaliatory firing, and test this …

To provide economic relief following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the US CARES
Act granted an extra $600 per week in unemployment insurance (UI) benefit payments from …