Academics, the media, and policymakers have all raised concerns about the implications of human workers being replaced … workers. We show that this flexibility can help new firms overcome uncertainty and increase entrepreneurial entry. We develop …

Austria that allowed workers in eligible regions to exit the labor force 3 years earlier compared to workers in non … induced eligible workers to exit the labor force significantly earlier. Instrumental variable estimation results show that for …

Using a randomized experiment with an automobile manufacturing firm in China, we measure the effects of letting workers … evaluate their managers on worker and firm outcomes. In the treatment teams, workers evaluate their supervisors monthly. We …. In addition, workers report higher levels of happiness and positive mood. The evidence suggests that these results are …

This paper examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on employment and respiratory health for remote workers (i ….e. those who can work from home) and non-remote workers in the United States. Using a large, nationally-representative, high …-remote workers. This gap is larger than the differential job losses for women, African Americans, Hispanics, or workers without …

What are the characteristics of workers in jobs likely to be initially affected by broad social distancing and later by … ATUS. Our main finding is that workers in low-work-from-home or high-physical- proximity jobs are more economically … workers predicted to be employed in low work-from-home jobs experienced greater declines in employment according to the March …

This paper studies empirically the links between international trade and labor income risk faced by workers in the … United States. We use longitudinal data on workers to estimate time-varying individual income risk at the industry level. We … relationship between trade and labor income risk. Importantly, by contrasting estimates from various sub-samples of workers, such …