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Home Sweet Home : How Much Do Employees Value Remote Work?

Cullen, Zoë B.; Pakzad-Hurson, Bobak; Perez-Truglia, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

We estimate the value employees place on remote work using revealed preferences in a high-stakes, real-world context, focusing on U.S. tech workers. On average, employees are willing to accept a 25% pay cut for partly or fully remote roles. Our estimates are three to five times that of previous...

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Small Changes, Big Impact : Nudging Employees Toward Sustainable Behaviors

Cappellucci, Laura; Ha, Lan; Honig, Jeremy; Knittel, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We designed and conducted three randomized control trials in partnership with a large biopharmaceutical company operating over 160 plasma donation centers, with the aim of promoting sustainable behaviors in a workplace setting. Specifically, we focused on reducing operational errors that led to...

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Conflict in Dismissals

Carry, Pauline; Schoefer, Benjamin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

How do the employer and the worker interact during a dismissal? This paper tests whether they cooperate to minimize costs, or instead engage in conflict--i.e., deliberately amplify costs. We leverage a unique feature of the French labor market: an employer and a worker can jointly opt to replace...

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Cracks in the Glass Ceiling and Gender Equality : Do Exports Shatter the Glass Ceiling?

Araújo, Bruno César Pino Oliveira de; Paz, Lourenço Senne - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We use Brazilian administrative employer-employee matched data of worker demographics, industry of affiliation, occupation, and wages to examine whether females in managerial and executive positions (cracks in the glass ceiling) lead to more gender-equal workplace outcomes. In response to the...

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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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The Evolution of the Mexican-Born Workforce in the United States

Borjas, George J. - 2005

This paper examines the evolution of the Mexican-born workforce in the United States using data drawn from the … immigration to the United States in recent years. Interestingly, the share of Mexican immigrants in the U.S. workforce declined … Mexican immigrants in the U.S. workforce was at the 1920 level. The paper examines the trends in the relative skills and …

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Suicidal Behavior and the Labor Market Productivity of Young Adults

Tekin, Erdal - 2005

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the link between suicidal behaviors and human capital formation of young adults in the United States. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we estimate the effects of suicide thoughts and attempts on the probability...

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Employees' Investment Decisions about Company Stock

Choi, James J. - 2004

We study the relationship between past returns on a company's stock and the level of investment in that stock by the participants in that company's 401(k) plan. Using data on 94,191 plan participants, we analyze several different decision points: the initial fraction of savings allocated to...

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Compensating Employees Below the Executive Ranks : A Comparison of Options, Restricted Stock, and Cash

Oyer, Paul - 2004

Using a detailed data set of employee stock option grants, we compare observed stock-option-based pay plans to hypothetical cash-only or restricted-stock-based plans. We make a variety of assumptions regarding the possible benefits of options relative to cash or stock, and then use observed...

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The Salary Taboo : Privacy Norms and the Diffusion of Information

Cullen, Zoë B. - 2018

The limited diffusion of salary information has implications for labor markets, such as wage discrimination policies and collective bargaining. Access to salary information is believed to be limited and unequal, but there is little direct evidence on the sources of these information frictions....

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