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Reaching for the Stars : Who Pays for Talent in Innovative Industries?

Andersson, Fredrik - 2006

Innovation in the U.S. economy is about employing and rewarding highly talented workers to produce new products. Using unique longitudinal matched employer-employee data, this paper makes a key connection between talent and firms in markets with risky product innovations. We show that software...

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Biological Gender Differences, Absenteeism and the Earning Gap

Ichino, Andrea - 2006

In most Western countries illness-related absenteeism is higher among female workers than among male workers. Using the personnel dataset of a large Italian bank, we show that the probability of an absence due to illness increases for females, relative to males, approximately 28 days after a...

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Illegal Migration from Mexico to the United States

Hanson, Gordon H. - 2006

In this paper, I selectively review recent literature on illegal migration from Mexico to the United States. I begin by discussing methods for estimating stocks and flows of illegal migrants. While there is uncertainty about the size of the unauthorized population, new data sources make it...

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Employee Screening : Theory and Evidence

Huang, Fali - 2006

Arguably the fundamental problem faced by employers is how to elicit effort from employees. Most models suggest that employers meet this challenge by monitoring employees carefully to prevent shirking. But there is another option that relies on heterogeneity across employees, and that is to...

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The Value of Stock Options to Non-Executive Employees

Hallock, Kevin F. - 2006

This study empirically investigates the value employees place on stock options using information from the option exercise behavior of individuals. Employees hold options for another period if the value from holding them and reserving the right to exercise them later is higher than the value of...

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The Evolution of the Mexican-Born Workforce in the United States

Borjas, George J. - 2005

This paper examines the evolution of the Mexican-born workforce in the United States using data drawn from the … immigration to the United States in recent years. Interestingly, the share of Mexican immigrants in the U.S. workforce declined … Mexican immigrants in the U.S. workforce was at the 1920 level. The paper examines the trends in the relative skills and …

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Employees' Investment Decisions about Company Stock

Choi, James J. - 2004

We study the relationship between past returns on a company's stock and the level of investment in that stock by the participants in that company's 401(k) plan. Using data on 94,191 plan participants, we analyze several different decision points: the initial fraction of savings allocated to...

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Age Variations in Workers' Value of Statistical Life

Aldy, Joseph E. - 2004

This paper develops a life-cycle model in which workers choose both consumption levels and job fatality risks, implying that the effect of age on the value of life is ambiguous. The empirical analysis of this relationship uses novel, age-dependent fatal and nonfatal risk variables. Workers'...

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Collective Bargaining and Staff Salaries in American Colleges and Universities

Klaff, Daniel B. - 2002

Our study is the first study that addresses the impact of collective bargaining coverage on salaries in academia for employees other than faculty. We use data from a 1997-98 study on the costs of staffing in higher education conducted by the Association of Higher Education Facilities Officers...

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The Anatomy of Employee Involvement and Its Effects on Firms and Workers

Freeman, Richard B. - 2000

A great many American firms have organized workplace decision-making in new ways to get employees more involved in their jobs -- using policies like self-directed work teams, total equality management, quality circles, profit-sharing, and diverse other programs. This paper uses a firm-based data...

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