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Excess commuting in the US : differences between the self-employed and employees
Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; … - 2015
differences between the self-employed and employees in the US. In a theoretical framework where self-employed workers minimize … their commuting time, employees do not minimize their commuting time because they lack full information, and thus the … difference between the time devoted to commuting by self-employed workers and employees is modeled as wasteful commuting (i …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011348299
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Working from home and commuting : heterogeneity over time, space, and occupations
Vos, Duco de; Ham, Maarten van; Meijers, Evert J. - 2019
Teleworking may increase the willingness to accept a longer commute. This paper presents new evidence of the effect of teleworking on the length of commutes. We use novel panel data from the Netherlands, for the years 2008-2018, and find stronger effects compared to studies that use older data....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012101919
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The electric telegraph, news coverage and political participation
Wang, Tianyi - 2023
Using newly digitized data on the growth of the telegraph network in America during 1840-1852, the paper studies the impacts of the electric telegraph on national elections. I use proximity to daily newspapers with telegraphic connections to Washington to generate plausibly exogenous variation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014315749
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Information technology and the knowledge elites
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001
I study a model where Information Technology, while typically increasing overall inequality, is likely to harm some people at intermediate and high levels of the distribution of income but to benefit people at the bottom. Within a given occupation it may harm some workers while benefitting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401091
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Age structure of the workforce and firm performance
Grund, Christian (contributor);  … - 2005
, we address the issues, whether firms with young rather than older employees are successful and whether firms with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003158653
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Employee training, wage dispersion and equality in Britain
Almeida-Santos, Filipe (contributor);  … - 2006
6924 employees. We find these returns differ greatly depending on the nature of the training (general or specific); who … wage gains but only for white-collar employees"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site …
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Employees who become self-employed : do labour income and wages have an impact?
Andersson, Pernilla (contributor);  … - 2006
This paper analyzes the self-employment decision among Swedish-born male employees. The main objective of the paper is … three groups of employees: (1) employees who have an actual income lower than the predicted income (underpaid), (2 …) employees with an actual income close to the predicted one, and (3) employees with an actual income higher than the predicted …
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Biological gender differences, absenteeism and the earning gap
Ichino, Andrea (contributor); Moretti, Enrico (contributor) - 2006
In most Western countries illness-related absenteeism is higher among female workers than among male workers. Using the personnel dataset of a large Italian bank, we show that the probability of an absence due to illness increases for females, relative to males, approximately 28 days after a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003348536
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Search and offshoring in the presence of "animal spirits"
Mitra, Devashish; Ranjan, Priya - 2009
In this paper, we introduce two sources of unemployment in a two-factor general equilibrium model: search frictions and fairness considerations. We find that a binding fair-wage constraint increases the unskilled unemployment rate and can at the same time lead to a higher unemployment rate for...
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Are young and old workers harmful for firm productivity?
Lallemand, Thierry (contributor);  … - 2009
This paper investigates the effects of the workforce age structure on the productivity of large Belgian firms. More precisely, it examines different scenarios of changes in the proportion of young (16-29 years), middle-aged (30-49 years) and old (more than 49 years) workers and their expected...
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