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The Impact of Unions on Wages in the Public Sector : Evidence from Higher Education

Baker, Michael; Halberstam, Yosh; Kroft, Kory; Mas, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We study the effects of the unionization of faculty at Canadian universities from 1970-2022 using an event-study design. Using administrative data which covers the full universe of faculty salaries, we find strong evidence that unionization leads to both average salary gains and compression of...

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Shareholder Power and the Decline of Labor

Falato, Antonio; Kim, Hyunseob; Wachter, Till von - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

increases in concentrated institutional ownership on employment, wages, shareholder returns, and labor productivity. Consistent … employment and wages. This result holds in both panel regressions with establishment fixed effects and a difference …

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Picture This : Social Distance and the Mistreatment of Migrant Workers

Barsbai, Toman; Bartoš, Vojtěch; Licuanan, Victoria S.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

International migrant workers are vulnerable to abuses by their employers. We implemented a randomized controlled trial of an intervention to reduce mistreatment of Filipino women working as domestic workers (DWs) by their household employers in Hong Kong and Saudi Arabia. The intervention --...

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Electoral Violence and Supply Chain Disruptions in Kenya's Floriculture Industry

Ksoll, Christopher; Macchiavello, Rocco; Morjaria, Ameet - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Violent conflicts, particularly at election times in Africa, are a common cause of instability and economic disruption. This paper studies how firms react to electoral violence using the case of Kenyan flower exporters during the 2008 post-election violence as an example. The violence induced a...

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Wage and Productivity Premiums in Sub-Saharan Africa

Van Biesebroeck, Johannes - 2007

Using a matched employer-employee data set of manufacturing plants in three sub-Saharan countries, I compare the … marginal productivity of different categories of workers with the wages they earn. A methodological contribution is to estimate …

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The Production and Inventory Behavior of the American Automobile Industry

Blanchard, Olivier J. - 1982

Understanding inventory movements is central to an understanding of business cycles. This paper presents an empirical study of the behavior of inventories in the automobile industry. It finds that inventory behavior is well explained by the assumption of intertemporal optimization with rational...

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Using Payroll Tax Variation to Unpack the Black Box of Firm-Level Production

Benzarti, Youssef - 2020

This paper uses quasi-experimental variation in payroll taxes to estimate their incidence and investigate how firms use their input factors. We find that higher payroll tax rates lead to large employment responses and have no effects on employee earnings. As payroll taxes increase, firms...

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Misallocation in the Market for Inputs : Enforcement and the Organization of Production

Boehm, Johannes - 2018

Indian manufacturing plants, we show that production and sourcing decisions appear systematically distorted in states with …

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Railroads and the Rise of the Factory : Evidence for the United States, 1850-70

Atack, Jeremy - 2008

Over the course of the nineteenth century manufacturing in the United States shifted from artisan shop to factory … of extensive railroad network. Using a newly created data set of manufacturing establishments linked to county level data … on rail access from 1850-70, we ask whether the coming of the railroad increased establishment size in manufacturing …

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The Antebellum U.S. Iron Industry : Domestic Production and Foreign Competition

Davis, Joseph H. - 2007

This paper presents new annual estimates of U.S. production of pig iron and imports of pig iron products dating back to 1827. These estimates are used to assess the vulnerability of the antebellum iron industry to foreign competition and the role of the tariff in fostering the industry's early...

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