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The Effects of COVID-19 on U.S. Small Businesses : Evidence from Owners, Managers, and Employees
Alekseev, Georgij - 2020
We analyze a large-scale survey of owners, managers, and employees of small businesses in the United States to understand the effects of the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic on those businesses. The survey was fielded in late April 2020 among Facebook business page administrators, frequent...
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Strong Employers and Weak Employees : How Does Employer Concentration Affect Wages?
Benmelech, Efraim - 2018
-2009, we find that: (1) local-level employer concentration exhibits substantial cross-sectional and time-series variation and … increases over time; (2) consistent with labor market monopsony power, there is a negative relation between local-level employer …
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The Promise and Potential of Linked Employer-Employee Data for Entrepreneurship Research
Goetz, Christopher - 2015
In this paper, we highlight the potential for linked employer-employee data to be used in entrepreneurship research … entrepreneurship research. Linked employer-employee data provides a unique perspective on new business creation by combining …
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Demographics and Entrepreneurship
Liang, James - 2014
Entrepreneurship requires energy and creativity as well as business acumen. Some factors that contribute to entrepreneurship may decline with age, but business skills increase with experience in high level positions. Having too many older workers in society slows entrepreneurship. Older workers...
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Politics At Work
Colonnelli, Emanuele; Pinho Neto, Valdemar Rodrigues de; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We study how individual political views shape firm behavior and labor market outcomes. Using new micro-data on the political affiliation of business owners and private-sector workers in Brazil over the 2002-2019 period, we first document the presence of political assortative matching: business...
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Skills, exports, and the wages of five million Latin American workers
Brambilla, Irene - 2010
"The returns to schooling or the skill premium is a key parameter in various literatures, including globalization and inequality and international migration. This paper explores the skill premium and its link to exports in Latin America, thus linking the skill premium to the emerging literature...
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Organizational Change in French Manufacturing : What Do We Learn From Firm Representatives and From Their Employees?
Greenan, Nathalie - 1999
In this paper, we use a French matched employer-employee survey, the COI survey, conducted in 1997, to describe the … the COI survey and we present the set of firm level and employee level variables that we have selected to investigate … level variables, we find that an increase in the use of 'employee involvement' and 'quality' practices by the firm is …
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Using Employee Level Data in a Firm Level Econometric Study
Mairesse, Jacques - 1999
analysis is performed on two linked employer-employee samples of about 2500 firms in the French manufacturing and services … of interest in a regression model of the firm, the biases arising from the sampling errors in the employee based …
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From Mancession to Shecession : Women's Employment in Regular and Pandemic Recessions
Alon, Titan; Coskun, Sena; Doepke, Matthias; Koll, David; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We examine the impact of the global recession triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic on women's versus men's employment. Whereas recent recessions in advanced economies usually had a disproportionate impact on men's employment, giving rise to the moniker "mancessions," we show that the pandemic...
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The Labor Effects of Pro-labor Bias in Bankruptcy
Araújo, Aloisio Pessoa de; Ferreira, Rafael; Lagaras, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Judicial decisions in bankruptcy are often influenced by the goal to preserve employment in financially distressed firms. What are the effects of these pro-labor decisions on workers' earnings and employment trajectories? We construct a new court-level measure of pro-labor bias based on the text...
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