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The Intergenerational Transmission of Employers
Corak, Miles - 2010
We find that about 40% of a cohort of young Canadian men has been employed with an employer for whom their father also worked; and six to nine percent have the same employer in adulthood. The intergenerational transmission of employers is positively related to paternal earnings, particularly at...
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The Role of Education in Technology Use and Adoption : Evidence from the Canadian Workplace and Employee Survey
Riddell, W. Craig - 2012
causal effect of education on technology adoption. Relying on data from the Workplace and Employee Survey, this study … workplace tasks …
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Social Comparison in the Workplace : Evidence from a Field Experiment
Cohn, Alain - 2011
We conducted a randomized field experiment to examine how workers respond to wage cuts, and whether their response depends on the wages paid to coworkers. Workers were assigned to teams of two, performed identical individual tasks, and received the same performance – independent hourly wage....
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Social Incentives in the Workplace
Bandiera, Oriana - 2011
We present evidence on social incentives in the workplace, namely on whether workers' behavior is affected by the …
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The Effect of Comprehensive Smoking Bans in European Workplaces
Origo, Federica - 2010
of smoking regulation on health, particularly within the workplace, is still very limited. In this paper, we use a Diff …
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Recessions Are Bad for Workplace Safety
Boone, Jan - 2011
Workplace accidents are an important economic phenomenon. Yet, the pro-cyclical fluctuations in workplace accidents are … not well understood. They could be related to fluctuations in effort and working hours, but workplace accidents may also … be affected by reporting behavior. Our paper uses unique data on workplace accidents from an Austrian matched worker …
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Cheating in the Workplace : An Experimental Study of the Impact of Bonuses and Productivity
Gill, David - 2012
workplace cheating. Firms often use bonus-based compensation plans, such as group bonuses and firm-wide profit sharing, that …
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Workplace Heterogeneity and the Rise of West German Wage Inequality
Card, David - 2013
We study the role of establishment-specific wage premiums in generating recent increases in West German wage inequality. Models with additive fixed effects for workers and establishments are fit in four sub-intervals spanning the period from 1985 to 2009. We show that these models provide a good...
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Occupations after WWII : The Legacy of Rosie the Riveter
Bellou, Andriana - 2013
WWII induced a dramatic increase in female labor supply, which persisted over time, particularly for women with higher education. Using Census micro data we study the qualitative aspects of this long term increase through the lenses of the occupations women held after the war. Almost two decades...
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Tournament Incentives in the Field : Gender Differences in the Workplace
Delfgaauw, Josse - 2009
We ran a field experiment in a Dutch retail chain consisting of 128 stores. In a random sample of these stores, we introduced short-term sales competitions among subsets of stores. We find that sales competitions have a large effect on sales growth, but only in stores where the store's manager...
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