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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003446802
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009532078
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Wage inequality of US truck drivers
Monaco, Kristen A.; Habermalz, Steffen - 2011
Using CPS data for the period 1979-2009, the wage dispersion of truck drivers (and subsets of the truck driving sample) is compared to the trends in wage dispersion of males economy-wide. We find that truckers' wages experienced a decrease in inequality post-deregulation, as expected given the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009125036
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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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Immigrant labor, child care services, and the work fertility trade-off in the United States
Furtado, Delia (contributor); Hock, Heinrich (contributor) - 2008
The negative correlation between female employment and fertility in industrialized nations has weakened since the 1960s, particularly in the United States. We suggest that the continuing influx of low-skilled immigrants has led to a substantial reduction in the trade-off between work and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003719621
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The stairways to heaven : a model of career choice in sports and games, with an application to chess
Ariga, Ken; Brunello, Giorgio; Iwahashi, Roki; Rocco, … - 2008
are more talented than European and American players, there is evidence that they face lower training costs …
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The firing cost implications of alternative severance pay designs
Parsons, Donald O. - 2010
; firing costs …
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Border enforcement and selection of Mexican immigrants in the United States
Lozano, Fernando; Lopez, Mary J. - 2010
increase in migration costs for undocumented immigrants. More stringent border enforcement either deters potential illegal … likely to be kidnapped, smuggled, or raped when crossing illegally. If migration costs are not the same for all migrants …, higher migrating costs may result in a change in the number and in the composition of immigrants to the United States. In the …
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Employment protection, firm selection, and growth
Poschke, Markus (contributor) - 2007
This paper analyzes the effect of firing costs on aggregate productivity growth. For this purpose, a model of … firms, and is sustained as entrants imitate the best incumbents. In this framework, firing costs not only induce … misallocation of labor, but also affect growth by affecting firms' exit decisions. Importantly, charging firing costs only to …
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