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We study the consequences of predictive scheduling laws for wages, emmployment, hours, and the variability of hours worked. A number of states and municipalities have recently passed these laws, which require employers to give their employees advance …

We study how changes in relative labor-to-capital taxation affect the direction of technological change, particularly the adoption and innovation of labor-saving versus labor-augmenting technologies. To study these effects, we draw on a stacked …

We examine the welfare consequences of requiring firms to prioritize workers with low displacement costs for layoffs. Using linked employer–employee administrative data, we exploit a reform that raised the firm-size threshold for the applicability of …

We study the impact of scientific advancement on innovation in a newly digitized dataset of 19th century British patents. We build a network of scientific fields linked with technology classes, following the diffusion of new words from scientific …

We study firms' beliefs about the wage distribution using a large-scale survey of managers in Germany linked to administrative data. 80% of managers believe their firm pays at least the median wage. Comparing beliefs to administrative wage data, we …