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Effort, Identity, and Employee Mental Health

Kranton, Rachel E.; Thomas, Duncan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

Why do workers exert effort at their tasks and what are the implications for their well-being when greater effort is necessary? This paper, which studies university employees during the Covid-19 pandemic, provides empirical evidence that identity - in terms of both the importance of work to...

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Techies and Firm Level Productivity

Harrigan, James; Reshef, Ariell; Toubal, Farid - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study the impact of techies--engineers and other technically trained workers--on firm-level productivity. We first report new facts on the role of techies in the firm by using French administrative data and unique surveys. Techies are STEM-skill intensive and are associated with innovation,...

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Meritocracy across Countries

Bandiera, Oriana; Kotia, Ananya; Lindenlaub, Ilse; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Are labor markets in higher-income countries more meritocratic, in the sense that worker-job matching is based on skills rather than idiosyncratic attributes unrelated to productivity? If so, why? And what are the aggregate consequences? Using internationally comparable data on worker skills and...

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How Well Do Parents With Young Children Combine Work and Family Life

Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2004

efforts of parents with young children to balance work and family life. Next I consider whether employer policies mitigate or …

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Early Maternal Employment and Family Wellbeing

Chatterji, Pinka - 2011

employment on family well-being, measured by maternal mental and overall health, parenting stress, and parenting quality. First … dynamic panel data models to examine the effects of maternal employment on family outcomes during the first 4.5 years of … factor in modeling family outcomes …

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Women, Work, and Family

Blau, Francine D. - 2017

This chapter focuses on women, work, and family, with a particular focus on differences by educational attainment …. First, we review long-term trends regarding family structure, participation in the labor market, and time spent in household … production, including time with children. In looking at family, we focus on mothers with children. Next we examine key challenges …

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The Next Wave of Energy Innovation : Which Technologies? Which Skills?

Popp, David; Vona, Francesco; Gregoire-Zawilski, Myriam; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The costs of low-carbon energy fell dramatically over the past decade, leading to rapid growth in its deployment. However, many challenges remain to deploy low-carbon energy at a scale necessary to meet net zero carbon emission targets. If net zero goals are to be met, developing complementary...

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Understanding Corporate Governance Through Learning Models of Managerial Competence

Hermalin, Benjamin E. - 2014

A manager's shareholders, board of directors, and potential future employers are continually assessing his ability. A rich literature has documented that this insight has profound implications for corporate governance because assessment generates incentives (good and bad), introduces assorted...

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Employee Ownership, Employee Attitudes, and Firm Performance

Kruse, Douglas - 1995

Employee ownership in U.S. companies has grown substantially in the past 20 years. This paper reviews and provides some meta-analyses on the accumulated evidence concerning the prevalence, causes, and effects of employee ownership, covering 25 studies of employee attitudes and behaviors, and 27...

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Employee Response to Compulsory Short-Time Work

Fuchs, Victor R. - 1986

This paper reports the results of a survey of over 1500 employees who faced compulsory reductions of 10 percent in hours of work and earnings during the second half of 1985. The workers were asked how they used the free time and how they viewed the program, and their answers were analyzed in...

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