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In this paper, location choices are driven by households (both blacks and whites) consciously choosing to trade off proximity to neighbors of similar racial backgrounds for proximity to jobs. Because of coordination failures in the location choices, multiple urban equilibria emerge. There is a...
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Conditions Survey (1995, 2000, 2005) to document recent patterns in mental health at the workplace and to assess how these are … related to various job attributes. We find substantial heterogeneity in mental health incidence at the workplace both across … workplace attributes, such as: working in shifts, performing complex and intensive tasks and having restricted job autonomy lead …
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The precondition for labour-market competition between immigrants and natives is that both are willing to accept jobs that do not differ in quality. To test this hypothesis, in this paper we compare the working conditions between immigrants and natives in Catalonia. Comparing immigrants' working...
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In monopsony models of the labour market either a minimum wage or an employment subsidy financed by a lump sum tax on profits can achieve the efficient level of employment and output. Incorporating working conditions into a monopsony model where higher wages raise firm labour supply, but less...
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Workers are embedded within a network of social relationships and can communicate through word-of-mouth. They can find a job either directly or through personal contacts. From this micro scenario, we derive an aggregate matching function that has the standard properties but fails to be...
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We provide some of the first rigorous evidence on performance spillovers and social network in the workplace. The data …
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We study the mapping between labor mobility and industrial innovative activity for the population of R&D active Danish firms observed between 1999 and 2004. Our study documents a positive relationship between the number of workers who join a firm and the firm's innovative activity. This...
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We investigate whether the publicly available information on Facebook about job applicants affects employers' hiring … Belgium. The only characteristic in which these candidates differ is the unique Facebook profile that can be found online with … their name. Candidates with the most beneficial Facebook picture obtain approximately 39% more job interview invitations …
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the environment of social networking sites hostile to many users. We conduct a novel experiment in a Facebook setting to … that participants exposed to civil Facebook interaction are significantly more trusting. In contrast, when the use of … Facebook is accompanied by the experience of online incivility, no significant changes occur in users' behavior. These results …
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within-country disparities. We use social-media data - Facebook interests - to construct novel regional measures of patience …
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