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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
economic deregulation. Road driver output is individualized, and pay is on the basis of a piece rate (mileage). However, road … deregulation and union coverage fell slowly, while in TL both the union differential and union coverage fell sharply. We review …) ; truckload (TL) ; regulation ; deregulation ; union premium …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009532078
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Wage inequality of US truck drivers
Monaco, Kristen A.; Habermalz, Steffen - 2011
in inequality post-deregulation, as expected given the literature on regulation's impact on the labor market. We also … distribution of truck drivers has been dominated by the changing structure of the occupation post-deregulation and largely immune …
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Stuck in the slow lane : traffic composition and the measurement of labor productivity in the US trucking industry
Boyer, Kenneth Duncan (contributor);  … - 2007
"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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Is the U.S. labor market for truck drivers broken? : an empirical analysis using nationally representative data
Burks, Stephen V.; Monaco, Kristen A. - 2018
The US trucking industry trade press often portrays the US labor market for truck drivers as not working, citing persistent driver shortages and high levels of firm‐level turnover, and predicting significant resulting constraints on the supply of motor freight services. We investigate the...
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Job creation and job destruction dynamics in the U.S. truck transportation industry, 1995-2019
Miller, Jason W.; Phares, Jonathan; Burks, Stephen V. - 2023
Every year, approximately 27% of all jobs in the U.S. truck transportation sector (NAICS 484) are reshuffled across motor carriers as existing carriers grow or shrink, new entrants begin operations, and existing firms exit. Studying how these dynamics unfold, especially for young carriers, is...
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Product markets and paychecks : deregulation's effect on the compensation structure in banking
Wozniak, Abigail K. (contributor) - 2006
This paper asks how deregulation intended to promote competition in the commercial banking industry affected the … over time to identify the effects of deregulation. Banking deregulation had no effect on compensation levels or inequality …, between-establishment inequality increased dramatically. Deregulation also led to increases in inequality among managers …
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A post-deregulation analysis of wages in US freight transportation
Habermalz, Steffen (contributor);  … - 2007
"After a period of regulatory changes in the early 1980s we are faced with "new" freight transportation labor markets in the U.S. Using data from the 1984-1999 Current Population Survey, we examine trends in the wages of workers within freight transportation, with a focus on wage differentials...
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Entrepreneurship in the United States
Blanchflower, David G. (contributor) - 2007
In this paper I examine changes in self-employment that have occurred since the early 1980s in the United States. It is a companion paper to a recent equivalent paper relating to the UK. Data on random samples of twenty million US workers are examined taken from the Basic Monthly files of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003571665
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High on life? : medical marijuana laws and suicide
Anderson, D. Mark; Rees, Daniel I.; Sabia, Joseph J. - 2012
Using state-level data for the period 1990 through 2007, we estimate the effect of legalizing medical marijuana on suicide rates. Our results suggest that the passage of a medical marijuana law is associated with an almost 5 percent reduction in the total suicide rate, an 11 percent reduction in...
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Cross-border spillover : US gun laws and violence in Mexico
Dube, Arindrajit; Dube, Oeindrila; García-Ponce, Omar - 2012
To what extent, and under what conditions, does access to arms fuel violent crime? To answer this question, we exploit a unique natural experiment: the 2004 expiration of the U.S. Federal Assault Weapons Ban exerted a spillover on gun supply in Mexican municipios near Texas, Arizona and New...
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