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Cut to the Bone? Hospital Takeovers and Nurse Employment Contracts
Currie, Janet - 2003
This paper uses data from the 1990s to examine changes in the wages, employment, and effort of nurses in California hospitals following takeovers by large chains. The market for nurses has been described as a classic monopsony, so that one might expect increases in firm market power to be...
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An Empirical Model of the Medical Match
Agarwal, Nikhil - 2014
product of labor, with larger markdowns at more desirable programs. Therefore, a limited number of positions at high quality … market. I find that financial incentives increase the quality, but not the number of rural residents. Quantity regulations … increase the number of rural trainees, but the impact on resident quality depends on the design of the intervention …
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Do Industrial Relations Affect Plant Performance? : The Case of Commercial Aircraft Manufacturing
Kleiner, Morris M. - 1999
productivity impacts of movements from traditional adversarial management, which is the norm in this industry, to total quality …
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Product Quality and Worker Quality
Abowd, John M. - 1995
We study the relation between product quality and worker quality using an economic model that, under certain conditions …, provides a direct link between product price, product quality and work force quality. Our measures of product quality are the …. Our worker quality measures are the firm's average person effect and personal characteristics effect from individual wage …
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The sources of labor productivity variation in U. S. manufacturing, 1947-80
Bernanke, Ben - 1981
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Risk Management and the Autonomy of Labor
Dambaur, Andreas J.; Ericson, Keith M. Marzilli; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Foresightful workers can take actions to reduce their exposure to risk in labor markets, but existing evidence on narrow bracketing suggests that individuals might not optimally integrate risk reduction decisions with subsequent labor decisions. In an online labor market, we vary the level of...
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Game, Sweat, Match : Temperature and Elite Worker Productivity
Burke, Marshall; Tanutama, Vincent; Heft-Neal, Sam; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The effect of hot temperatures on labor productivity is thought to be a key channel through which a warming climate will impact the economy, and these impacts could help explain broader observed relationships between temperature and economic output. Yet for many workers and jobs, especially the...
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Technology and Labor Displacement : Evidence from Linking Patents with Worker-Level Data
Kogan, Leonid; Papanikolaou, Dimitris; Schmidt, Lawrence; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We develop measures of labor-saving and labor-augmenting technology exposure using textual analysis of patents and job tasks. Using US administrative data, we show that both measures negatively predict earnings growth of individual incumbent workers. While labor-saving technologies predict...
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Allocative Skill
Caplin, Andrew; Deming, David J.; Leth-Petersen, Søren; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Jobs increasingly require good decision-making. Workers are valued not only for how much they can do, but also for their ability to decide what to do. In this paper we develop a theory and measurement paradigm for assessing individual variation in the ability to make good decisions about...
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The Evolution of Work from Home
Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Full days worked at home account for 28 percent of paid workdays among Americans 20-64 years old, as of mid 2023, according to the Survey of Working Arrangements and Attitudes. That's about four times the 2019 rate and ten times the rate in the mid-1990s that we estimate in time-use data. We...
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