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Can Reputation Discipline the Gig Economy? Experimental Evidence from an Online Labor Market
Benson, Alan; Sojourner, Aaron J.; Umyarov, Akhmed - 2015
In two experiments, we examine the effects of employer reputation in an online labor market (Amazon Mechanical Turk) in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401783
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Gender Differences in Interpersonal and Intrapersonal Competitive Behavior
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Frank, Rachel; Huet-Vaughn, Emiliano - 2017
Gender differences in competitive behavior have been well documented by economists and other social scientists; however, the bulk of the research addresses competition with others and excludes other economically relevant competition that may contribute to the gender pay gap. In this paper, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653354
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Supervisors and Performance Management Systems
Frederiksen, Anders; Kahn, Lisa B.; Lange, Fabian - 2017
Supervisors occupy central roles in production and performance monitoring. We study how heterogeneity in performance evaluations across supervisors affects employee and supervisor careers and firm outcomes using data on the performance system of a Scandinavian service sector firm. We show that...
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An Introduction to Nonparametric Regression for Labor Economists
Henderson, Daniel J.; Souto, Anne-Charlotte - 2018
labor economic applications. We focus our attention on issues commonly found in the labor literature such as how to account …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984474
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Export Take-Offs and Acceleration: Unpacking Cross-Sector Linkages in the Evolution of Comparative Advantage
Bahar, Dany; Rosenow, Samuel; Stein, Ernesto; Wagner, … - 2018
labor. Technology has a predictive power depending on the specification used. We consistently find, however, that export …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984621
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Measuring the Spatial Misallocation of Labor: The Returns to India-Gulf Guest Work in a Natural Experiment
Clemens, Michael A. - 2019
global inefficiencies in the pure spatial allocation of labor between poorer and richer countries. But rigorous estimates are … labor by a factor of four, implying large spatial inefficiency. Short-term effects on households were modest. Effects on …
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Obesity and labor market outcomes: evidence from the British NCDS
Lindeboom, Maarten; Lundborg, Petter; van der Klaauw, Bas - 2009
significant negative association between obesity and labor market outcomes even after controlling for a rich set of demographic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274403
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Returns to Human Capital under the Communist Wage Grid and During the Transition to a Market Economy
Terrell, Katherine; Svejnar, Jan; Münich, Daniel - 2000
Under communism, workers had their wages set according to a centrally-determined wage grid. In this paper we use new micro data on men to estimate returns to human capital under the communist wage grid and during the transition to a market economy. We use data from the Czech Republic because it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275906
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Applications and interviews: A structural analysis of two-sided simultaneous search
Wolthoff, Ronald P. - 2010
A large part of the literature on frictional matching in the labor market assumes bilateral meetings between workers … equilibrium search model of the labor market with an endogenous number of contacts between workers and firms. Workers contact … approximately half of the 4.7% loss. There is a potential role for activating labor market policies, because I show that for the …
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Unfit for service: The implications of rising obesity for US military recruitment
Cawley, John; Maclean, Johanna Catherine - 2011
This paper contributes to the literature on the labor market consequences of unhealthy behaviors and poor health by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278723