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Industrial Robots, Workers' Safety, and Health
Gihleb, Rania; Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca; Wang, Tianyi - 2022
This study explores the relationship between the adoption of industrial robots and workplace injuries. Using establishment-level data on injuries, we find that a one standard deviation increase in our commuting zone-level measure of robot exposure reduces work-related annual injury rates by...
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Does Birthplace Diversity Affect Economic Complexity? Cross-Country Evidence
Bahar, Dany - 2019
We empirically investigate the relationship between a country's economic complexity and the diversity in the birthplaces of its immigrants. Our cross-country analysis suggests that birthplace diversity is strongly and positively associated with economic complexity. This holds particularly for...
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Diversity, social goods provision, and performance in the firm
Ellison, Sara; Greenbaum, Jeffrey; Mullin, Wallace P. - 2010
The last decade has seen a growing interest among economists on the effect of diversity on the provision of social goods and the stock of social capital. Indeed, in the workplace, cooperation, trust, and other social goods may be important elements of the smooth functioning of an office, but...
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Does Religious Diversity Improve Trust and Performance? Evidence from Lebanon
Canaan, Serena; Deeb, Antoine; Mouganie, Pierre - 2022
Religious divisions have long played a primary role in major conflicts throughout much of the world. Intergroup contact …
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Betting on Diversity – Occupational Segregation and Gender Stereotypes
Fischbacher, Urs; Kübler, Dorothea; Stüber, Robert - 2023
Many occupations and industries are highly segregated with respect to gender. This segregation could be due to perceived job-specific productivity differences between men and women. It could also result from the belief that single-gender teams perform better. We investigate the two explanations...
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Gender Diversity, Gender in the Boardroom and Gender Quotas
Kunze, Astrid; Scharfenkamp, Katrin - 2022
This study investigates boards of (non-executive) directors and whether employee representation has a positive effect on gender diversity on boards. We exploit rich, newly assembled board–director matched panel data for Norway and Germany, which contain unique information on whether a director...
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Running the U.S. Economy at Full Throttle is a Stressful Variant of Capitalism
Komlos, John - 2022
mental and physical health of the population creates psychological stress. Focusing on the bellwether indicators of economic …. Stress is the biological reaction to external stimuli that threatens the self-preservation instinct of a human organism. The … stress was generated by debilitating poverty, financial insecurity, by the highest level of inequality among rich countries …
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Willingness to Pay for Workplace Safety
Anelli, Massimo; Koenig, Felix - 2021
This paper develops a revealed-preference approach that uses budget constrain discontinuities to price workplace safety. We track hourly workers who face the decision of how many hours to work at varying levels of Covid-19 risk and leverage state-specific discontinuities in unemployment...
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Strikes, Employee Workplace Representation, Unionism, and Industrial Relations Quality in European Establishments
Addison, John T. - 2019
Using cross-country data, this paper investigates the relationship between workplace representation and strikes. Works councils are associated with reduced strike activity. However, where union members make up a majority of works councillors, such union-dominated councils experience greater...
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What Does Codetermination Do?
Jäger, Simon; Noy, Shakked; Schoefer, Benjamin - 2021
We provide a comprehensive overview of codetermination, i.e., worker representation in firms’ governance and management. We cover the institution’s history, implementation, and the best available evidence on its economic impacts. We argue that existing quasi-experimental estimates suggest...
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