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"Mirroring the railroad industry of the 1940's and 1950's, the trucking industry today appears to be achieving impressive productivity gains. But it is easy to confuse true productivity advances in transportation industries with changes in ton-miles per unit of input that are due simply to...

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Public opinion, the deep recession, and the 2010 elections

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Using behavioral economic experiments at a large motor carrier : the context and design of the truckers and turnover project

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setting, and the focus is on the use of survival analysis to model the flow of new employees into and out of employment, and …

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Toward the integration of personality theory and decision theory in the explanation of economic and health behavior

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Trait-based personality psychology and economics have taken different approaches to understanding individual differences, with the former emphasizing variables derived from the factor analysis of trait assessments, and the latter emphasizing variables derived from formal decision theory. In a...

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What are over-the-road truckers paid for? : evidence from an exogenous regulatory change on the role of social comparisons and work organization in wage determination

Burks, Stephen V.; Guy, Frederick - 2012

Using evidence from recent work on truckers and disaggregated older data prior researchers did not have, we revisit a classic topic and find some new answers. We focus on differentials in average annual earnings at the firm level among mileage-paid over-the-road tractor-trailer drivers ("road...

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Health behavior and accident risk : obesity is associated with the future risk of heavy truck crashes among newly recruited commercial drivers

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