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Preference for the Workplace, Human Capital, and Gender
Wiswall, Matthew - 2016
In this paper, we use a hypothetical choice methodology to robustly estimate preferences for workplace attributes and … systematic relationship between the respondents' job preferences as revealed during college and the actual workplace …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012994373
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Procrastination in the Workplace : Evidence from the U.S. Patent Office
Frakes, Michael - 2016
, especially in the workplace. In this paper, we attempt to fill these gaps by exploring procrastination among U.S. patent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976968
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Workplace Segregation in the United States : Race, Ethnicity, and Skill
Hellerstein, Judith K.; Neumark, David - 2021
We study workplace segregation in the United States using a unique matched employer-employee data set that we have … created. We present measures of workplace segregation by education and language%u2013as skilled workers may be more … of education- and language-related skill differentials in generating workplace segregation by race and ethnicity, as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013240656
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The Value of Working Conditions in the United States and Implications for the Structure of Wages
Maestas, Nicole - 2018
This paper documents variation in working conditions among workers in the United States, presents new estimates of how workers value these conditions, and assesses the impact of working conditions on estimates of the wage structure and inequality. We use evidence from a series of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908816
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Understanding Trends in Alternative Work Arrangements in the United States
Katz, Lawrence F. - 2019
This paper describes and tries to reconcile trends in alternative work arrangements in the United States using data from the Contingent Worker Survey supplements to the Current Population Survey (CPS) for 1995 to 2017, the 2015 RAND-Princeton Contingent Work Survey (CWS), and administrative tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012895487
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Workplace Heterogeneity and the Rise of West German Wage Inequality
Card, David - 2014
We study the role of establishment-specific wage premiums in generating recent increases in West German wage inequality. Models with additive fixed effects for workers and establishments are fit in four distinct time intervals spanning the period 1985-2009. Unlike standard wage models,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013065086
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Fighting Procrastination in the Workplace : An Experiment
Cadena, Ximena - 2014
In this paper we test whether procrastination and planning problems affect the performance, compensation and work satisfaction among employees. We conducted a randomized controlled experiment with a bank in Colombia to change the frequency and intensity with which employees received reminders...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068288
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The Impact of Job Stress on Smoking and Quitting : Evidence from the Hrs
Ayyagari, Padmaja - 2010
This paper examines the impact of job-related stress on smoking behavior. We use data from the Health and Retirement Study to examine how high job stress affects the probability that smokers quit and the number of cigarettes smoked for current smokers. We include individual fixed effects, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013151382
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Effects of Venue-Specific State Clean Indoor Air Laws on Smoking-Related Outcomes
Bitler, Marianne P. - 2010
workplace smoking restrictions as reported by bartenders and reduced the fraction of bartenders who smoke. We do not, however …, find that SCIALs in private workplaces, government workplaces, schools, or restaurants increased the presence of workplace … reductions associated with SCIALs in previous research are unlikely to have been directly caused by effects of workplace smoking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013151383
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Cumulative Effects of Job Characteristics on Health
Fletcher, Jason M. - 2009
We examine whether the job characteristics of physical demands and environmental conditions affect individual's health. Five-year cumulative measures of these job characteristics are used to reflect findings in the biologic and physiologic literature that indicate that cumulative exposure to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158504