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Independent Contracting, Self-Employment, and Gig Work : Evidence from California Tax Data

Bernhardt, Annette; Campos, Christopher; Prohofsky, Allen; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We use de-identified data from California personal income tax returns to measure the frequency and nature of independent contracting and self-employment work in California. We identify this work by the presence of a Schedule C on the tax return and/or the receipt of a Form 1099 information...

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Have CEOs Changed?

Decressin, Yann; Kaplan, Steven N.; Sørensen, Morten - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Using more than 4,900 assessments, we study changes in the characteristics and objectives of CEOs and top executives since 2001. The same four factors explain roughly half of the variation of assessed CEO characteristics in this larger sample of executive assessments as in Kaplan and Sorensen...

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The Rise of Teamwork and Career Prospects in Academic Science

Andalón, Mabel; De Fontenay, Catherine C.; Ginther, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Teamwork has become more important in recent decades. We show that larger teams generate an unintended side effect: individuals who finish their PhD when the average team in their field is larger have worse career prospects. Our analysis combines data on career outcomes from the Survey of...

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Cross-border media and nationalism : Evidence from Serbian radio in Croatia

DellaVigna, Stefano - 2011

public radio (intended for Serbs in Serbia) whenever signal is available. As a result, the vote for extreme nationalist …

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The Real Effects of Banking the Poor : Evidence from Brazil

Fonseca, Julia; Matray, Adrien - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We study how financial development affects economic development and wage inequality. We use a large expansion of … increase with workers' productivity, implying a substantial increase in wage inequality. The changes to inequality are … development affects inequality. Our results are inconsistent with alternative explanations such as differential exposure to Brazil …

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The Crime Effect of Refugees

Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Mocan, Naci; Tumen, Semih; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We analyze the impact on crime of 3.7 million refugees who entered and stayed in Turkey as a result of the civil war in Syria. Using a novel administrative data source on the flow of offense records to prosecutors' offices in 81 provinces of the country each year, and utilizing the staggered...

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Air Pollution, Wildfire Smoke, and Worker Health

Cabral, Marika; Dillender, Marcus - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Little is known about how pollution impacts worker health and workplace safety. This paper leverages high-frequency, plausibly exogenous variation in wildfire smoke to estimate the impact of pollution on workplace injuries. Our analysis draws on unique data we construct through linking...

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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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The Influence of Occupational Licensing on Workforce Transitions to Retirement

Oh, Yun Taek; Kleiner, Morris M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Ways of leaving the labor force has been an understudied aspect of labor market outcomes. Labor market institutions such as occupational licensing may influence how individuals transition to retirement. When and how workers transition from career jobs to full retirement may contribute to pre-...

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An Empirical Framework For Matching With Imperfect Competition

Chan, Mons; Kroft, Kory; Mattana, Elena; Mourifié, Ismael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

setting and two-sided heterogeneity in order to shed light on the sources of wage inequality. We provide a tractable … amenities and strategic interactions to equilibrium wage inequality. Using instrumental variables, we establish identification … main sources of wage inequality in Denmark …

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