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Competitive exams are a standard method for selecting civil servants. Yet, evidence on the effectiveness of such approach is mixed, and lack of personnel data limits our understanding of the mechanisms underlying this varying success. We digitize personnel and financial data to study the impacts...
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There are very large literatures in public health and economics on the effects of workplace smoking bans, with most … studies relying on cross-sectional variation. We provide new quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of workplace bans by … using the differential timing of adoption of over 100 very strong local smoking by-laws in Ontario, Canada over the period …
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We conducted a randomized controlled trial involving nearly 700 customer-service representatives (CSRs) in a Canadian government service agency to study whether providing CSRs with performance feedback with or without peer comparison affected their subsequent organ donor registration rates....
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Workplace drug testing programs are becoming increasingly more common although there is little research demonstrating … workplace drug- testing policy implemented by the military in 1981. The military's policy incorporates random drug testing of …
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This paper evaluates a class of endogenous job destruction models based on how well they explain the observed experiences of displaced workers. We show that pure reallocation models in which relationship-specific productivity drifts downward over time are difficult to reconcile with the evidence...
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that it is a cluster of complementary changes involving IT, workplace organization and services that is the key skill …-biased technical change. We examine new firm-level data linking several indicators of IT use, workplace organization, and the demand … complementarity. IT use is complementary to a new workplace organization which includes broader job responsibilities for line workers …
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Were workers more likely to be infected by COVID-19 in their workplace, or outside it? While both economic models of … the pandemic and public health policy recommendations often presume that the workplace is less safe, this paper seeks an …
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We use data from a large web-based job platform to study how the price of remote work is determined in a globalized labor market. In the platform, workers from around the world compete for jobs that can be done remotely. We document that, despite the global nature of the marketplace, the...
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Why is workplace sexual harassment chronically underreported? We hypothesize that employers coerce victims into silence … economic incentives for victims of workplace sexual harassment to remain silent. We find the selectivity of sexual harassment …
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households have heterogenous preferences over workplace-residence pairs. We provide a general characterization of equilibrium …
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