Show Me the Amenity: Are Higher-Paying Firms Better All Around?

Non-Disclosure Agreements and Externalities from Silence

“…In turn, policies that enable workers to speak freelyand that limit the ability of firms to restrict disparaging speech generally (as opposed to only unlawful activity)-will further mitigate these negative externalities. 4 Our results also contribute to the body of literature concerned with firm reputation (Diamond, 1989;Tadelis, 1999;Lange et al, 2011;Benson et al, 2020;Gadgil and Sockin, 2020), reputation management (Melo and Garrido-Morgado, 2012;Lii and Lee, 2012;Barrage et al, 2014;Lloyd-Smith and An, 2019), and labor market sorting (Sorkin, 2018;Sullivan and To, 2014;Maestas et al, 2018;Sockin, 2021). Respectively, these literatures highlight the importance of reputation as a meaningful asset for firms, the strategies firms use in order to maintain their reputations (e.g., advertising or corporate social responsibility), and the importance of non-wage amenities for labor market sorting.…”

“…account for a substantial portion of the value workers gain from a match (Sullivan and To, 2014;Sorkin, 2018;Maestas et al, 2018;Sockin, 2021). However, as we document, firms can use NDAs to conceal negative information about their jobs.…”

Public Child Care and Mothers' Career Trajectories

“…For a detailed discussion see Ginja et al (2023). monetary amenities, a higher level of job satisfaction among employees (Sorkin, 2022) and thus overall higher firm 'quality'. For our version of the SIAB, we use the firm-level information on the establishment wage premia computed by Bellmann et al (2020) and merge this data to each mother's pre-birth employer.…”

Sorting with Team Formation

“…25 For more empirical and theoretical discussion on the provision and valuation of amenities, see, amongst others, Gronberg and Reed (1994), Mas and Pallais (2017), Sorkin (2018), Wiswall and Zafar (2018), Morchio andMoser (2021), andSockin (2022). mismatch.…”