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Estimating Social Preferences and Gift Exchange at Work
DellaVigna, Stefano - 2016
We design a model-based field experiment to estimate the nature and magnitude of workers' social preferences towards their employers. We hire 446 workers for a one-time task. Within worker, we vary (i) piece rates; (ii) whether the work has payoffs only for the worker, or also for the employer;...
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Employment and Community : Socioeconomic Cooperation and Its Breakdown
Acemoglu, Daron - 2024
We propose a model of the interplay of employment relationships and community-based interactions among workers and managers. Employment relations can be either tough (where workers are monitored intensively and obtain few rents, and managers do not provide informal favors for their workers) or...
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Capital Structure and a Firm’s Workforce
Matsa, David A. - 2018
undermining employees' job security and increasing the need for costly workforce reductions. But firms can also use leverage to …
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How Substitutable Are Workers? Evidence from Worker Deaths
Jäger, Simon; Heining, Jörg - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We estimate how exogenous worker exits affect firms' demand for incumbent workers and new hires. Drawing on administrative data from Germany, we analyze 34,000 unexpected worker deaths, which, on average, raise the remaining workers' wages and retention probabilities. The average effect masks...
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The analysis of firms and employees : quantitative and qualitative approaches
Bender, Stefan (contributor); Lane, Julia (contributor);  … - 2008
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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
general features of organizational change in manufacturing firms with more than 50 employees. In a first section, we explore …
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Using Employee Level Data in a Firm Level Econometric Study
Mairesse, Jacques - 1999
enriched by using information collected from employees, even if only a few of them are surveyed per firm. Though variables … measured on the basis of the answers of very few employees per firm are subject to very important sampling errors, they can be …) surveyed employees. As an illustration in the second part of the paper, we consider the estimation of the relationship between …
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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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