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Mental health and productivity at work : does what you do matter?
Bubonya, Melisa; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Wooden, Mark - 2016
Much of the economic cost of mental illness stems from workers' reduced productivity. We analyze the links between … mental health and two alternative workplace productivity measures - absenteeism and presenteeism (i.e., lower productivity … health status. Job conditions are relatively more important in understanding diminished productivity at work if workers are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011457379
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Wage dispersion and firm productivity in different working environments
Mahy, Benoît; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2009
This paper investigates the impact of wage dispersion on firm productivity in different working environments. More …-shaped relationship between (conditional) wage dispersion and firm productivity. This result suggests that up to (beyond) a certain level … associate higher uncertainty with more unfair environments. -- Wage dispersion ; labour productivity ; working environments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003817906
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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 that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550237
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The value of working conditions in the United States and implications for the structure of wages
Maestas, Nicole; Mullen, Kathleen J.; Powell, David; … - 2018
This paper documents variation in working conditions among workers in the United States, presents new estimates of how workers value these conditions, and assesses the impact of working conditions on estimates of the wage structure and inequality. We use evidence from a series of stated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011946821
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Sorting in the labor market : do gregarious workers flock to interactive jobs?
Krueger, Alan B. (contributor); Schkade, David (contributor) - 2007
This paper tests a central implication of the theory of equalizing differences, that workers sort into jobs with different attributes based on their preferences for those attributes. We present evidence from four new time-use data sets for the United States and France on whether workers who are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003579983
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The third worker : assessing the trade-off between employees and contractors
Martins, Pedro S. - 2016
Firms make labour demand decisions not only between permanent and non-permanent employees but also increasingly more between employees and contractors. Indeed, this third work format can be attractive, also when employment protection law is restrictive. This paper examines empirically this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011541305
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Wage dispersion and search behavior
Hall, Robert Ernest; Müller, Andreas - 2015
-seeker's non-work alternative, and the job-seeker's personal productivity. We find that, conditional on personal productivity, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388325
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Strikes, scabs and tread separations : labor strife and the production of defective Bridgestone/Firestone tires
Krueger, Alan B. (contributor); Mas, Alexandre (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001792870
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Understanding the mechanisms linking college education with longevity
Hong, Kai; Savelyev, Peter A.; Tan, Kegon T.K. - 2020
We go beyond estimating the effect of college attainment on longevity by uncovering the mechanisms behind this effect while controlling for latent skills and unobserved heterogeneity. We decompose the effect with respect to a large set of potential mechanisms, including health behaviors,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012200924
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Return of the Solow paradox? : IT, productivity, and employment in US manufacturing
Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, … - 2014
rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT …-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited support for more rapid productivity growth in IT … expectations, is that output contracts in IT-intensive industries relative to the rest of manufacturing. Productivity increases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010236437