Publications

August 2023
Article

Surveying the Landscape of Labor Market Threat Perceptions from Migration: Evidence from Attitudes toward Sub-Saharan African Migrants in Morocco

By: Matt Buehler, Kristin E. Fabbe and Eleni Kyrkopoulou

Morocco, once primarily known as a country of emigration and transit to Europe, has become a destination country for migrants, the majority of whom are from sub-Saharan Africa. Using an original nationally representative survey of 2,700 respondents, together with data... View Details

Keywords: Migration; North Africa; Morocco; Sub-Saharan African Migrants; Middle East; Immigration; Perception; Developing Countries and Economies; Labor; Morocco

2019
Working Paper

On Her Own Account: How Strengthening Women's Financial Control Affects Labor Supply and Gender Norms

By: Natalia Rigol, Erica Field, Rohini Pande, Simone Schaner and Charity Troyer-Moore

Can greater control over earned income incentivize women to work and influence gender norms? In collaboration with Indian government partners, we provided rural women with individual bank accounts and randomly varied whether their wages from a public workfare program... View Details

Keywords: Gender Norms; Economics; Gender; Employment; Income; Societal Protocols; India

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April 1983
Article

Productivity and Labor Unions: An Application of the Theory of Self-Enforcing Contracts

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin

Keywords: Labor Unions; Contracts; Theory

November–December 2023
Article

Look the Part? The Role of Profile Pictures in Online Labor Markets

By: Isamar Troncoso and Lan Luo

Profile pictures are a key component of many freelancing platforms, a design choice that can impact hiring and matching outcomes. In this paper, we examine how appearance-based perceptions of a freelancer’s fit for the job (i.e., whether a freelancer "looks the part"... View Details

Keywords: Freelancers; Gig Workers; Demographics; Prejudice and Bias; Selection and Staffing; Jobs and Positions; Analytics and Data Science

2016
Working Paper

On Her Account: Can Strengthening Women's Financial Control Boost Female Labor Supply?

By: Natalia Rigol, Rohini Pande, Erica Field, Simone Schaner and Charity Troyer Moore

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March 2022
Background Note

The Labor Market as COVID Recedes: A Great Resignation or a Great Realization?

By: Joseph B. Fuller, William R. Kerr and Ria Mazumdar

Keywords: Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Macroeconomics; Economic Sectors; Economy; United States

Educators

June 2005
Article

The Collapse of a Medical Labor Clearinghouse (and why such failures are rare)

By: C. Nicholas McKinney, Muriel Niederle and Alvin E. Roth

Keywords: Health; Labor; Failure

1978
Chapter

The Context for the Individual Rights Issues: Labor Force Trends and Their Implication

By: R. M. Kanter

Keywords: Rights; Labor and Management Relations; Trends

1985
Chapter

Implicit Labor Contracts Viewed as Options: A Discussion of 'Insurance Aspects of Pensions'

By: Robert C. Merton

Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Decision Choices and Conditions; Contracts; Labor and Management Relations; Insurance

24 Oct 2013
Working Paper Summaries

When $3+$1 > $4: The Effect of Gift Salience on Employee Effort in an Online Labor Market

Keywords: by Duncan Gilchrist, Michael Luca & Deepak Malhotra

Article

Optimal Life-Cycle Investing with Flexible Labor Supply: A Welfare Analysis of Life-Cycle Funds

By: Francisco J. Gomes, Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Luis M. Viceira

Keywords: Investment; Labor; Investment Funds

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Research Summary

Paper - Playing in the Forest: Labor Arrangements in the Brazilian Amazon, 1870-1910

Paper is currently being updated. Please check later for further details. View Details

May 2018 (Revised October 2019)
Case

Managing the Future of Work

By: William R. Kerr, Allison Ciechanover and Jeff Huizinga

By 2019, leaders from the public and private sector had become increasingly anxious about how advanced technologies and aging global populations could affect labor markets, workplaces, and workers’ lives. Some analysts forecasted that hundreds of millions of workers... View Details

Keywords: Labor Markets; Workplace; Employment; Technological Innovation; Demographics; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change Management; Problems and Challenges; Opportunities

Educators

May 2013
Conference Presentation

Which Suppliers Better Adhere to International Labor Standards? Evidence from Codes of Conduct Audits

By: Michael W. Toffel

14 Jun 2022
Cold Call Podcast

What Does It Take to Close the Opportunity Gap in America’s Labor Market?

Keywords: Re: V. Kasturi Rangan

10 Apr 2013
Talk

Which Suppliers Adhere to Global Labor Standards? Evidence from Codes of Conduct Audits

By: Michael W. Toffel

November 2006 (Revised December 2012)
Teaching Note

IKEA's Global Sourcing Challenge: Indian Rugs and Child Labor (TN) (A) and (B)

By: Christopher A. Bartlett

Keywords: Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues

April 2021 (Revised April 2022)
Case

OneTen: One Million Opportunities in Ten Years

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Courtney Han

In the wake of George Floyd's killing in May 2020, and widespread protests for social justice in the United States, OneTen was formed by a coalition of 40 large companies to provide one million jobs for African-Americans in 10 years. The case describes the background... View Details

Keywords: Labor Market; COVID-19 Pandemic; Diversity; Race; Jobs and Positions; Opportunities; Social Issues; Employment; Equality and Inequality; Equity; United States

Educators