Salary history bans and healing scars from past recessions
研究薪资历史禁令如何帮助在经济衰退期开始职业生涯的工人（伤疤工人）提高工作流动性和薪资，缩小与正常时期入职者的差距。
In a recession, increased competition forces inexperienced job market entrants to ac- cept lower wages than those who start their careers during an economic boom. Despite years of improvement in labor market conditions following a recession, a wage dispar- ity, known as scarring, persists between these cohorts. Recently implemented Salary History Ban laws (SHBs) are intended to reduce wage disparities between advantaged and disadvantaged groups. In this study, I test how these laws affect a unique and of- ten less salient disadvantaged group – scarred workers. For scarred workers who began their careers during a moderate-to-severe recession, or a five percentage point higher state unemployment rate, I find SHBs increase job mobility by 0.6%, hourly wages by 2.65%, and weekly earnings by 5% relative to cohorts who graduated in baseline labor market conditions. These estimates represent a substantial reduction in the original scarring effect and provide a broader understanding of the mechanisms behind both scarring and SHB laws.