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We analyze the supply-side disruptions associated with Covid-19 across firms and workers. To do so, we exploit differences in the ability of workers across industries to work remotely using data from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS). We find that sectors in which a higher fraction of the...
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We present the results from a field experiment on team diversity. Individuals working as door-to-door canvassers for a … teammates and their supervisor) and external diversity (between teams and the individuals they canvassed). We observe team …
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Team incentives are important in many compensation systems that pay workers according to the output of their team as … well as to their own output, with team bonuses often depending on whether the team meets or exceeds specified thresholds …. Yet little is known about how team members with different abilities respond to compensation rules and thresholds. We …
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. shared leadership, establish stability in shared leadership, or experience repeated discord-induced TMT leader departures …. While most firms do not experience smooth transitions to stable shared TMT leadership, a focus on value creation, in … conjunction with talent recruitment and promotion, enabled some firms to achieve stable shared leadership in spite of discord …
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Despite the importance placed on supervision in the workplace, little is known about the effects of a boss' leadership … region, high SAT, and undergraduate institution as their bosses who also have strong leadership qualities retain at the …
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Incentive schemes that reward participants based on their relative performance are often thought to be particularly risk-inducing. Using a novel, real-effort task experiment in the laboratory, we find that the relationship between incentives and risk-taking is more nuanced and depends critically...
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Workers respond to the output choices of their peers. What explains this well documented phenomenon of peer effects? Do workers value equity, fear punishment from equity-minded peers, or does output from peers teach them about employers' expectations? We test these alternative explanations in a...
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This paper documents industrial output and labor productivity growth around the poor periphery 1870-1940 (Latin America …, the European periphery, the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia). Intensive and extensive industrial … an early effort to identify the sources underlying the spread of the industrial revolution to the poor periphery …
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Most countries in the periphery specialized in the export of just a handful of primary products for most of their …. Additionally, both effects were asymmetric between Core and Periphery, findings that speak directly to the terms of trade debates …
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On average, the poor European periphery converged on the rich industrial core in the four or five decades prior to … globalization was by far the dominant force accounting for convergence (and divergence) around the periphery. Some exploited it well …
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