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Nearly all workers have a supervisor or 'boss'. Yet there is almost no published research by economists into how bosses affect the quality of employees' lives. This study offers some of the first formal evidence. First, it is shown that a boss's technical competence is the single strongest...
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buyer with the same local pool of labor. One factory views its workforce as a variable cost to be minimized, limits training …
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labor markets during periods of workforce growth and decline. We find multiple ports of entry that are concentrated in low …
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This paper contributes to the emerging strand of the empirical literature that takes advantage of new data on workplace-specific job attributes and voluntary employee turnover to shed fresh insights on the relationship between employee turnover, adverse workplace conditions and HRM environments....
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This reference paper describes the sampling and contents of the IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey and outlines its vast potential for research in labor economics. The data have been part of a unique IZA project to connect administrative data from the German Federal Employment Agency with innovative...
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immediate shift of around 40 percent of one within standard deviation to more negative attitudes toward immigration and …
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individual level, examining the relationship between religiosity and a broad set of pro- or anti-innovation attitudes in all five …, broadly defined (e.g., attitudes toward science and technology, new versus old ideas, change, risk taking, personal agency …
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The ultimate aim of opinion surveys is the provision of information on the distribution of preferences and perceptions at the individual level. Yet, eliciting this information from the data is typically difficult. This paper uses a structural model to explain the answers on a set of questions...
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In this paper, we re-examine the role of economic self-interest in shaping people’s attitudes towards immigration … education and attitudes towards immigration reflects economic self-interest in the labour market. Second, we develop an … alternative and more direct test of whether economic self-interest matters for people’s attitudes towards immigration. We find …
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analysis takes into account the important distinction between average employer attitudes and the attitude of the marginal … employer. Our results confirm that the attitudes of the marginal employer – but not those of the average employer – are …
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