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Preference for the Workplace, Human Capital, and Gender
Wiswall, Matthew - 2016
In this paper, we use a hypothetical choice methodology to robustly estimate preferences for workplace attributes and … systematic relationship between the respondents' job preferences as revealed during college and the actual workplace …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456502
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Harms of AI
Acemoglu, Daron - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This essay discusses several potential economic, political and social costs of the current path of AI technologies. I argue that if AI continues to be deployed along its current trajectory and remains unregulated, it may produce various social, economic and political harms. These include:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012629467
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Productivity and Wages : What Was the Productivity-Wage Link in the Digital Revolution of the Past, and What Might Occur in the AI Revolution of the Future?
Lazear, Edward P.; Shaw, Kathryn; Hayes, Grant E.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Wages have been spreading out across workers over time - or in other words, the 90th/50th wage ratio has risen over time. A key question is, has the productivity distribution also spread out across worker skill levels over time? Using our calculations of productivity by skill level for the U.S.,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013477226
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Computerization, Obsolescence, and the Length of Working Life
Hudomiet, Peter; Willis, Robert J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper analyzes how computerization affected the labor market outcomes of older workers between 1984 and 2017. Using the computerization supplements of the Current Population Survey (CPS) we show that different occupations were computerized at different times, older workers tended to start...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510579
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Scrambling for Dollars : International Liquidity, Banks and Exchange Rates
Bianchi, Javier; Bigio, Saki; Engel, Charles - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We develop a theory of exchange rate fluctuations arising from financial institutions' demand for dollar liquid assets. Financial flows are unpredictable and may leave banks "scrambling for dollars." Because of settlement frictions in interbank markets, a precautionary demand for dollar reserves...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012696366
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Human Capital by Gender : a G20 and Selected Geographies Perspective
Fraumeni, Barbara M.; Liu, Gang; Managi, Shunsuke - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper aims to identify the sources of human capital growth for the observation period 1990-2020 by region, gender and various determinants. It is a preliminary version of a forthcoming Inclusive Wealth Report 2023 (UNESCO and Urban Institute of Kyushu University) report. It focuses on five...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014468276
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Workers and the Green-Energy Transition : Evidence from 300 Million Job Transitions
Curtis, E. Mark; O’Kane, Layla; Park, Jisung - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Using micro-data representing over 130 million online work profiles, we explore transitions into and out of jobs most likely to be affected by a transition away from carbon-intensive production technologies. Exploiting detailed textual data on job title, firm name, occupation, and industry to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014337776
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The Effectiveness of Workplace Drug Prevention Policies : Does 'Zero Tolerance' Work?
Mehay, Stephen L. - 1999
Workplace drug testing programs are becoming increasingly more common although there is little research demonstrating … workplace drug- testing policy implemented by the military in 1981. The military's policy incorporates random drug testing of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471374
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Job Destruction and the Experiences of Displaced Workers
Haan, Wouter J. den - 1999
This paper evaluates a class of endogenous job destruction models based on how well they explain the observed experiences of displaced workers. We show that pure reallocation models in which relationship-specific productivity drifts downward over time are difficult to reconcile with the evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471571
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Information Technology, Workplace Organization and the Demand for Skilled Labor : Firm-Level Evidence
Bresnahan, Timothy F. - 1999
that it is a cluster of complementary changes involving IT, workplace organization and services that is the key skill …-biased technical change. We examine new firm-level data linking several indicators of IT use, workplace organization, and the demand … complementarity. IT use is complementary to a new workplace organization which includes broader job responsibilities for line workers …
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