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Manager ethnicity and employment segregation
Giuliano, Laura; Ransom, Michael R. - 2011
Using nine years of personnel records from a regional grocery store chain in the United States, this study examines the effect of manager ethnicity on the ethnic composition of employment at the firm's 73 stores. We estimate separate models with store fixed effects for several departments and...
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Add-on pricing, naive consumers, and the hidden welfare costs of education
Kosfeld, Michael; Schüwer, Ulrich - 2011
Previous research shows that firms shroud high add-on prices in competitive markets with naive consumers leading to inefficiency. We analyze the effects of regulatory intervention via educating naive consumers on equilibrium prices and welfare. Our model allows firms to shroud, unshroud, or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282162
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Labor market discrimination and capital investment: the effects of fan discrimination on stadium investment
Bodvarsson, Örn B.; Humphreys, Brad R. - 2009
We investigate the possibility that labor market discrimination affects economic outcomes in the complementary capital market. Previous research contains ample theoretical justification, and empirical evidence, that discrimination affects wages and employment in labor markets. However, the...
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The effect of product demand on inequality: Evidence from the US and the UK
Leonardi, Marco - 2010
This paper examines the relationship between product demand and the pattern of rising skill premia and rising employment of skilled workers in the US and the UK since the 1980s. If more skilled workers demand more skill-intensive goods, then an increase in relative skill supply will also induce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269763
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Present-biased preferences and credit card borrowing
Meier, Stephan; Sprenger, Charles D. - 2009
Some individuals borrow extensively on their credit cards. This paper tests whether present-biased time preferences correlate with credit card borrowing. In a field study, we elicit individual time preferences with incentivized choice experiments, and match resulting time preference measures to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276781
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Time limits: The effects on welfare use and other consumption-smoothing mechanisms
Mazzolari, Francesca; Ragusa, Giuseppe - 2012
We use data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation covering the period 1989-2006 to investigate the impact that time limits on receipt of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families have on female-headed family outcomes, including welfare use, employment and living arrangements. The...
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HRM practices and performance of family-run workplaces: Evidence from the 2004 WERS
Siebert, W. Stanley; Peng, Fei; Maimaiti, Yasheng - 2011
employment. We find that employees in this group have stronger feelings of job security and loyalty, which we relate to family …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278729
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Workplace performance, worker commitment and loyalty
Brown, Sarah; McHardy, Jolian; McNabb, Robert; Taylor, Karl - 2011
the determinants of a measure of worker commitment and loyalty (CLI) and whether CLI influences workplace performance …. Factors influencing employee commitment and loyalty include age and gender, whilst workplace level characteristics of … importance include human resource practices. With respect to the effects of employee commitment and loyalty upon the workplace …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285519
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HRM Practices and Performance of Family-Run Workplaces: Evidence from the 2004 WERS
Siebert, W. Stanley; Peng, Fei; Maimaiti, Yasheng - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
employment. We find that employees in this group have stronger feelings of job security and loyalty, which we relate to family …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009220616
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Workplace Performance, Worker Commitment and Loyalty
Brown, Sarah; McHardy, Jolian; McNabb, Robert; Taylor, Karl - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
the determinants of a measure of worker commitment and loyalty (CLI) and whether CLI influences workplace performance …. Factors influencing employee commitment and loyalty include age and gender, whilst workplace level characteristics of … importance include human resource practices. With respect to the effects of employee commitment and loyalty upon the workplace …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008804590