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Was there Really a Hawthorne Effect at the Hawthorne Plant? An Analysis of the Original Illumination Experiments
Levitt, Steven D. - 2009
Experiment." Both academics and popular writers commonly summarize the results as showing that every change in light, even those … that made the room dimmer, had the effect of increasing productivity. The data from the illumination experiments, however …
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What Does Codetermination Do?
Jäger, Simon; Noy, Shakked; Schoefer, Benjamin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We provide a comprehensive overview of codetermination, i.e., worker representation in firms' governance and management. We cover the institution's history, implementation, and the best available evidence on its economic impacts. We argue that existing quasiexperimental estimates suggest that...
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Using Neural Networks to Predict Micro-Spatial Economic Growth
Khachiyan, Arman; Thomas, Anthony; Zhou, Huye; Hanson, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We apply deep learning to daytime satellite imagery to predict changes in income and population at high spatial resolution in US data. For grid cells with lateral dimensions of 1.2km and 2.4km (where the average US county has dimension of 55.6km), our model predictions achieve R2 values of 0.85...
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The Light and the Heat : Productivity Co-benefits of Energy-saving Technology
Adhvaryu, Achyuta - 2018
. We combine daily production line-level data with weather data and estimate a negative, nonlinear productivity …, and thus raises productivity, particularly on hot days. Using the firm's costing data, we estimate the pay-back period for … LED adoption is nearly one-sixth the length after accounting for productivity co-benefits …
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The Effects of the Emeryville Fair Workweek Ordinance on the Daily Lives of Low-Wage Workers and their Families
Ananat, Elizabeth Oltmans; Gassman-Pines, Anna; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Emeryville, CA's Fair Workweek Ordinance (FWO) aimed to reduce service workers' schedule unpredictability by requiring large retail and food service employers to provide advanced notice of schedules and to compensate workers for last-minute schedule changes. From a 1-in-6 sample of Emeryville...
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Computerization, Obsolescence, and the Length of Working Life
Hudomiet, Peter; Willis, Robert J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper analyzes how computerization affected the labor market outcomes of older workers between 1984 and 2017. Using the computerization supplements of the Current Population Survey (CPS) we show that different occupations were computerized at different times, older workers tended to start...
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Understanding Trends in Alternative Work Arrangements in the United States
Katz, Lawrence F. - 2019
This paper describes and tries to reconcile trends in alternative work arrangements in the United States using data from the Contingent Worker Survey supplements to the Current Population Survey (CPS) for 1995 to 2017, the 2015 RAND-Princeton Contingent Work Survey (CWS), and administrative tax...
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The Value of Working Conditions in the United States and Implications for the Structure of Wages
Maestas, Nicole - 2018
This paper documents variation in working conditions among workers in the United States, presents new estimates of how workers value these conditions, and assesses the impact of working conditions on estimates of the wage structure and inequality. We use evidence from a series of...
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The Donut Effect of Covid-19 on Cities
Ramani, Arjun; Bloom, Nicholas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Using data from the US Postal Service and Zillow, we quantify the effect of Covid-19 on migration patterns and real estate markets within and across US cities. We find two key results. First, within large US cities, households, businesses, and real estate demand have moved from dense central...
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Measuring and Predicting "New Work" in the United States : The Role of Local Factors and Global Shocks
Kim, Gueyon; Merritt, Cassandra; Peri, Giovanni - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
productivity growth as well as local exposures to global shocks--technology, trade, immigration, and population aging--predict the …
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