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CEP discussion paper
Female-targeted hiring subsidies, firm learning, and women?s employment

Women often struggle to re-enter employment after career breaks, possibly because employers are uncertain about their productivity. We study whether hiring subsidies help firms overcome this uncertainty and hire from thi...Read more...

Mimosa Distefano, Lorenzo Incoronato and Anna Raute

12 August 2026

CEP discussion paper
The broken ladder: AI, remote work, and early-career hiring

Is generative AI replacing junior workers? A growing literature answers yes, citing large declines in early-career hiring concentrated in GenAI-exposed occupations. We argue that this verdict is premature because GenAI e...Read more...

Peter John Lambert and Yannick Schindler

10 June 2026

CEP discussion paper
Missing trade in tasks: employer outsourcing in the gig economy

Only a small share of employers in high-wage locations procure services from abroad. We document heterogeneous employer adoption of an online labor market that facilitates trade in tasks with global workers. Job vacancie...Read more...

Christopher T. Stanton and Catherine Thomas

19 March 2019

CVER Research Paper
Skills, Signals, and Employability: An Experimental Investigation

As skills of labor-market entrants are usually not directly observed by employers, individuals acquire skill signals. To study which signals are valued by employers, we simultaneously and independently randomize a broad ...Read more...

Marc Piopiunik, Guido Schwerdt, Lisa Simon and Ludger Woessmann

2 February 2018

CEP discussion paper
Matching Firms, Managers, and Incentives

We exploit a unique combination of administrative sources and survey data to study the match between firms and managers. The data includes manager characteristics, such as risk aversion and talent; firm characteristics, ...Read more...

Oriana Bandiera, Luigi Guiso, Andrea Prat and Raffaella Sadun

6 May 2012

CEP discussion paper
U.S. Labor Market Dynamics Revisited

The picture of U.S. labor market dynamics is opaque. Empirical studies have yielded contradictory findings and debates have emerged regarding their implications. This paper aims at clarifying the picture, which is import...Read more...

Eran Yashiv

November 2007

CEP discussion paper
Do Friends and Relatives Really Help in Getting a Good Job?

Informal contacts are extensively used by both firms and workers to find jobs and fill vacancies. The common wisdom in the economic literature is that jobs created through this channel are of better quality and pay highe...Read more...

Michele Pellizzari

March 2004