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Stuck in the slow lane: traffic composition and the measurement of labor productivity in the US trucking industry

Boyer, Kenneth Duncan; Burks, Stephen V. - 2007

Mirroring the railroad industry of the 1940's and 1950's, the trucking industry today appears to be achieving impressive productivity gains. But it is easy to confuse true productivity advances in transportation industries with changes in ton-miles per unit of input that are due simply to...

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Wage inequality of US truck drivers

Monaco, Kristen; Habermalz, Steffen - 2011

Using CPS data for the period 1979-2009, the wage dispersion of truck drivers (and subsets of the truck driving sample) is compared to the trends in wage dispersion of males economy-wide. We find that truckers' wages experienced a decrease in inequality post-deregulation, as expected given the...

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How much does immigration boost innovation?

Hunt, Jennifer; Gauthier-Loiselle, Marjolaine - 2009

We measure the extent to which skilled immigrants increase innovation in the United States by exploring individual …

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How immigration may affect US native entrepreneurship: Theoretical building blocks and preliminary results

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Jaeger, David A.; Regets, Mark - 2012

impact of immigration on entrepreneurial activity. Immigrants, we hypothesize, facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by … immigrants (even if they are not self-employed) may prove to be areas in which entrepreneurship and innovation are easier to …

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The adoption and diffusion of organizational innovation: evidence for the US economy

Lynch, Lisa M. - 2007

States during the 1990's, I examine the incidence and intensity of organizational innovation and the factors associated with … investments in organizational innovation. Past profits tend to be positively associated with organizational innovation. Employers … being part of a multi-establishment firm) are more likely to invest in organizational innovation. Investments in human …

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Technology and the demand for skill: an analysis of within and between firm differences

Abowd, John M.; Haltiwanger, John; Lane, Julia; … - 2007

We estimate the effects of technology investments on the demand for skilled workers using longitudinally integrated employer-employee data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics Program infrastructure files spanning two Economic Censuses (1992 and 1997). We...

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Intrapreneurship or entrepreneurship?

Parker, Simon C. - 2009

I explore the factors that determine whether new business opportunities are exploited by starting a new venture for an employer ('nascent intrapreneurship') or independently ('nascent entrepreneurship'). Analysis of a nationally representative sample of American adults gathered in 2005-06...

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Which immigrants are most innovative and entrepreneurial? Distinctions by entry visa

Hunt, Jennifer - 2010

Using the 2003 National Survey of College Graduates, I examine how immigrants perform relative to natives in activities likely to increase U.S. productivity, according to the type of visa on which they first entered the United States. Immigrants who first entered on a student/trainee visa or a...

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An inquiry into the theory, causes and consequences of monitoring indicators of health and safety at work

Pouliakas, Konstantinos; Theodossiou, Ioannis - 2010

and consequences of occupational safety and health (OSH). First, it synthesizes the available theoretical frameworks used … improve the health and safety of workers. …

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Speed Limit Enforcement and Road Safety

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Rekers, Ramona - 2019

We study the impact on road safety of one-day massive speed limit monitoring operations (SLMO) accompanied by media …

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