Peter Kuhn

About

Peter Kuhn is a labor economist whose research has studied displaced workers, labor unions, gender differentials in labor markets, search and matching, workplace incentives, and much more. His research has been funded by the NSF, NIH, and Ford Foundation, among others.

Research topics

• Economics
• Business
• Labour economics
• Computer Science
• Political Science
• Management
• Engineering
• Psychology

Selected publications

• Gender-targeted job ads in the recruitment process: Facts from a Chinese job board

  Journal of Development Economics · 2020 · 52 citations

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• How Costly Is Turnover? Evidence from Retail

  Journal of Labor Economics · 2020 · 37 citations

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  We estimate turnover costs in small retail sales teams using daily sales data and an advance notice requirement to address endogeneity concerns. In addition to short-staffing and onboarding costs, we identify two less familiar sources of turnover costs: incumbent workers’ recruitment activities and reductions in team morale after a departure is announced. Our estimates of total turnover costs are relatively modest, however: 10% higher turnover is about as costly as a 0.6% wage increase. We attri…

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• What Happens When Employers Can No Longer Discriminate in Job Ads?

  American Economic Review · 2023-03-30 · 29 citations

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  When employers' explicit gender requests were unexpectedly removed from a Chinese job board overnight, pools of successful applicants became more integrated: women's (men's) share of callbacks to jobs that had requested men (women) rose by 61 (146) percent. The removal “worked” in this sense because it generated a large increase in gender-mismatched applications, and because those applications were treated surprisingly well by employers, suggesting that employers' gender requests often represent…

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• What Happens When Employers Can No Longer Discriminate in Job Ads?

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2021-01-01 · 11 citations

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• Gender-Targeted Job Ads in the Recruitment Process: Evidence from China

  National Bureau of Economic Research · 2018-12-01 · 10 citations

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  We document how explicit employer requests for applicants of a particular gender enter the recruitment process on a Chinese job board. We find that 95 percent of callbacks to gendered jobs are of the requested gender; worker self-selection (compliance with employers' requests) and employer callback decisions from applicant pools (enforcement) both contribute to this association, with compliance playing the larger role. Explicit gender requests account for over half of the gender segregation and…

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Recent grants

• NIH Grant R21DK075642

  NIH · $481k · 2011

Frequent coauthors

• Kailing Shen

  140 shared

• Marie Claire Villeval

  Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Economique Lyon St Etienne

  114 shared

• Gary Charness

  50 shared

• Peter Kooreman

  27 shared

• Arie Kapteyn

  University of Southern California

  27 shared

• Adriaan R. Soetevent

  University of Groningen

  21 shared

• Carol McAusland

  University of British Columbia

  19 shared

• Heather Antecol

  17 shared

Labs

• Peter Kuhn's LabPI

  Not provided

Education

• PhD, Economics

  Harvard University

  1983

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