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Wars and the Labor Market Outcomes of Minorities in the U.S

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This chapter reviews key literature studying the effects of wars on minority and underrepresented groups in U.S. labor markets in the 20th century. These labor markets, characterized by historically pervasive barriers to entry into certain occupations and industries, promotions, and fair pay for...

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How Do the Better Educated Do It? Socioeconomic Status and the Ability to Cope with Underlying Impairment

Cutler, David M. - 2006

There is a pronounced gradient in disability across socioeconomic groups, with better educated and higher income groups reporting substantially less disability. In this paper, we consider why that is the case, focusing on impairments in basic physical and cognitive aspects of living for the...

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The Impact of Provider Choice on Workers' Compensation Costs and Outcomes

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The Backward Art of Slowing the Spread? Congregation Efficiencies during COVID-19

Mulligan, Casey B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

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 answer both in micro data and economic theory. The...

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Computerization of White Collar Jobs

Dillender, Marcus; Forsythe, Eliza - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We investigate the impact of computerization of white-collar jobs on wages and employment. Using online job postings … standard deviation increase in OAS technology usage reduces employment in OAS occupations by about 1 percentage point and …-substituting features. In addition, while we find that total employment increases, these gains primarily accrue to college-educated women …

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Workplace Segregation in the United States : Race, Ethnicity, and Skill

Hellerstein, Judith - 2005

Our results indicate that there is considerable segregation by education and language in the workplace. Racial segregation in the workplace is of the same order of magnitude as education segregation, and segregation between Hispanics and whites is larger yet. Only a tiny portion of racial...

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Agglomeration Economies and Race Specific Spillovers

Ananat, Elizabeth Oltmans; Fu, Shihe; Ross, Stephen L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

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Procrastination in the Workplace : Evidence from the U.S. Patent Office

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Despite much theoretical attention to the concept of procrastination and much exploration of this phenomenon in laboratory settings, there remain few empirical investigations into the practice of procrastination in real world contexts, especially in the workplace. In this paper, we attempt to...

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