Browsing HBS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "employment"

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    • Skilled Immigration and the Employment Structures 

      Kerr, Sari Pekkala; Kerr, William Robert; Lincoln, William F. (University of Chicago Press, 2014-05-13)
      We study the impact of skilled immigrants on the employment structures of U.S. firms using matched employer-employee data. Unlike most previous work, we use the firm as the lens of analysis to account for a greater level ...

    • Who Gets Hired? The Importance of Competition among Applicants 

      Lazear, Edward P.; Shaw, Kathryn L.; Stanton, Christopher Thomas (University of Chicago Press, 2018)
      Despite seeming to be an important requirement for hiring, the concept of a slot is absent from virtually all of economics. Macroeconomic studies of vacancies and search come closest, but the implications of slot-based ...