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 …

This chapter surveys recent advances in personnel economics. We begin by presenting
evidence showing substantial and persistent productivity variation among workers in the …

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 …

We examine employee responses to CEO activism, the increasingly common practice of
CEOs taking public stances on socio-political issues. CEO activism may bolster employees' …

We review the emerging literature on information acquisition in field settings. We first
document an increase in studies on information acquisition and review relevant studies in …

This paper estimates gender differences in access to informal information regarding the
labor market. We conduct a large-scale field experiment in which real college students seek …

Do employment restrictions which prohibit workers from disclosing misconduct at work,
which we refer to asbroad non-disclosure agreements'(NDAs), distort labor markets? We …

We evaluate the impact of the Washington State Attorney General's enforcement campaign
against employee no-poaching clauses in franchising contracts, which unfolded from 2018 …

Online platforms that implement reputation mechanisms typically prevent the transfer of
ratings to other platforms, leading to lock‐in effects and high switching costs for users …

We study how corporate scandals affect workers. Following the revelation of misconduct,
employee sentiment decreases sharply and persistently, driven by diminished perceptions …