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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
deregulation. Road driver output is individualized, and pay is on the basis of a piece rate (mileage). However, road drivers work … companies paid more than those for TL companies, but in LTL the union earnings premium was maintained following deregulation and …
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Factor adjustments after deregulation: panel evidence from Colombian plants
Eslava, Marcela; Haltiwanger, John; Kugler, Adriana D.; … - 2005
In this paper, we analyze employment and capital adjustments using a panel of plants from Colombia. We allow for nonlinear adjustment of employment to reflect not only adjustment costs of labor but also adjustment costs of capital, and vice-versa. Using data from the Annual Manufacturing Survey,...
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Product market deregulation and the US employment miracle
Ebell, Monique; Haefke, Christian - 2006
attributed to product market deregulation. Our quantitative analysis suggests that under individual bargaining, a decrease of … less than two tenths of a percentage point of unemployment rates can be attributed to product market deregulation, a …
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Product markets and paychecks: deregulation's effect on the compensation structure in banking
Wozniak, Abigail - 2006
This paper asks how deregulation intended to promote competition in the commercial banking industry affected the … over time to identify the effects of deregulation. Banking deregulation had no effect on compensation levels or inequality …, between-establishment inequality increased dramatically. Deregulation also led to increases in inequality among managers …
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Entrepreneurship in the United States
Blanchflower, David G. - 2007
In this paper I examine changes in self-employment that have occurred since the early 1980s in the United States. It is a companion paper to a recent equivalent paper relating to the UK. Data on random samples of twenty million US workers are examined taken from the Basic Monthly files of the...
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Wage inequality of US truck drivers
Monaco, Kristen; Habermalz, Steffen - 2011
in inequality post-deregulation, as expected given the literature on regulation's impact on the labor market. We also … distribution of truck drivers has been dominated by the changing structure of the occupation post-deregulation and largely immune …
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A post-deregulation analysis of wages in US freight transportation
Habermalz, Steffen; Monaco, Kristen - 2007
After a period of regulatory changes in the early 1980s we are faced with new freight transportation labor markets in the U.S. Using data from the 1984-1999 Current Population Survey, we examine trends in the wages of workers within freight transportation, with a focus on wage differentials...
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High on life? Medical marijuana laws and suicide
Anderson, D. Mark; Rees, Daniel I.; Sabia, Joseph J. - 2012
Using state-level data for the period 1990 through 2007, we estimate the effect of legalizing medical marijuana on suicide rates. Our results suggest that the passage of a medical marijuana law is associated with an almost 5 percent reduction in the total suicide rate, an 11 percent reduction in...
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Cross-border spillover: US gun laws and violence in Mexico
Dube, Arindrajit; Dube, Oeindrila; García-Ponce, Omar - 2012
To what extent, and under what conditions, does access to arms fuel violent crime? To answer this question, we exploit a unique natural experiment: the 2004 expiration of the U.S. Federal Assault Weapons Ban exerted a spillover on gun supply in Mexican municipios near Texas, Arizona and New...
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Trust in public institutions over the business cycle
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2011
We document that trust in public institutions and particularly trust in banks, business and government has declined over recent years. U.S. time series evidence suggests that this partly reflects the pro-cyclical nature of trust in institutions. Cross-country comparisons reveal a clear legacy of...
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