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The Influence of Others on Migration Plans
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2004
The willingness to migrate and locational choice may be influenced by others? choices or plans, particularly if the ?other people?, such as family and friends, are migrants, former migrants, or potential migrants themselves. We examine the roles ?other people? play in influencing an individual?s...
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Global Mobility and the Threat of Pandemics: Evidence from Three Centuries
Clemens, Michael A.; Ginn, Thomas - 2020
of mobility. Given the ever-present threat of new, future pandemics, how should permanent restrictions on mobility … respond? A simple theoretical framework predicts that reduced exposure to pre-pandemic international mobility causes slightly … 2009. We find that in all cases, even a draconian 50 percent reduction in pre-pandemic international mobility is associated …
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Job Matching, Social Network and Word-of-Mouth Communication
Calvó-Armengol, Antoni; Zenou, Yves - 2003
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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Performance spillovers and social network in the workplace: evidence from rural and urban weavers in a Chinese textile firm
Kato, Takao; Shu, Pian - 2008
We provide some of the first rigorous evidence on performance spillovers and social network in the workplace. The data we use are rather extraordinary - weekly data for rejection rates (proportion of defective output) for all weavers in a firm during a 12 months (April 2003-March 2004) period,...
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Labor mobility, social network effects, and innovative activity
Kaiser, Ulrich; Kongsted, Hans Christian; Rønde, Thomas - 2011
We study the mapping between labor mobility and industrial innovative activity for the population of R&D active Danish … from the worker leaving. Summing up the effects of joining and leaving workers, we find ample evidence for mobility to be …
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Markets for reputation: evidence on quality and quantity in academe
Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2009
mobility and salaries show, on the contrary, substantial positive effects of quantity, independent of quality. We test various …
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House lock and structural unemployment
Valletta, Robert G. - 2012
A recent decline in geographic mobility in the United States may have been caused in part by falling house prices …
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Taxes, cigarette consumption and smoking intensity
Adda, Jérôme; Cornaglia, Francesca - 2005
This paper analyses the compensatory behavior of smokers. Exploiting data on cotinine concentration a metabolite of nicotine measured in a large population of smokers over time, we show that smokers compensate tax hikes by extracting more nicotine per cigarette. Our study makes two important...
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Maternal employment and adolescent development
Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2005
This study investigates how maternal employment is related to the outcomes of 10 and 11 year olds, controlling for a wide variety of child, mother and family characteristics. The results suggest that limited amounts of work by mothers benefit youths who are relatively disadvantaged and even long...
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Using behavioral economic experiments at a large motor carrier: the context and design of the truckers and turnover project
Burks, Stephen V. - 2007
The Truckers and Turnover Project is a statistical case study of a single firm and its employees which matches proprietary personnel and operational data to new data collected by the researchers to create a two-year panel study of a large subset of new hires. The project's most distinctive...
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