Politics at Work
利用巴西微观数据，研究发现企业主更倾向于雇佣政治立场相同的员工，这一现象部分由政治与社会网络重叠驱动，并通过多种检验表明政治偏好直接影响企业雇佣决策。
We study how individual political views shape firm behavior and labor market outcomes using new microdata from Brazil. We first show that business owners are considerably more likely to employ copartisan workers. This phenomenon is in part driven by the overlapping of political and social networks. Multiple tests—surveys, event studies, analyses of wage premia and promotions within the firm, and a field experiment—further highlight how business owners’ political preferences directly influence firms’ employment decisions. A channel of political discrimination appears more relevant than one of political quid pro quo between firms and politicians.