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Der vormoderne Allokationsprozess von Arbeit in Deutschland

Pierenkemper, Toni; Kendzia, Michael J. - 2010

took place and trace back the development of wage labor within agriculture, industry and service sector. In particular, the …-industrial time the social organization of work occurred in various forms and that wage labor was rather a rare phenomenon in the … beginning of the 19th century. Hence, a widespread and functioning labor market cannot be identified at that time. Rudimentary …

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Signals from on high and the power of growth mindset: a natural field experiment in attracting minorities to high-profile positions

Flory, Jeffrey A.; Leibbrandt, Andreas; Rott, Christina; … - 2021

We conduct a large-scale natural field experiment with a Fortune 500 company to test several approaches to attract minorities to high-profile positions. 5,000 prospective applicants were randomized into treatments varying a portion of recruiting materials. We find that self-selection at two...

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In need of a roof : pandemic and housing vulnerability

Mundra, Kusum; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2022

Housing is a basic need and is intricately connected to a household's health and wellness. The current pandemic has exposed the housing vulnerability for certain subgroups of the population and further jeopardized these household's health and stability. Using the Household Pulse Survey launched...

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Economic vs. epidemiological approaches to measuring the human capital impacts of infectious disease elimination

Chuard, Caroline; Schwandt, Hannes; Becker, Alexander D.; … - 2022

A rich economic literature has examined the human capital impacts of disease-eliminating health interventions, such as the rollout of new vaccines. This literature is based on reduced-form approaches which exploit proxies for disease burden, such as mortality, instead of actual infection counts,...

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