Are some management practices akin to a technology that can explain firm and national productivity, or do they simply …-weighted average management score. We present a formal model of “Management as a Technology”, and structurally estimate it using panel … reflect contingent management styles? We collect data on core management practices from over 11,000 firms in 34 countries. We …

. These findings are robust to a series of sensitivity analyses. The results suggest that blue-collar workers "wear out …

This paper studies empirically the links between international trade and labor income risk faced by workers in the … United States. We use longitudinal data on workers to estimate time-varying individual income risk at the industry level. We … relationship between trade and labor income risk. Importantly, by contrasting estimates from various sub-samples of workers, such …

What are the characteristics of workers in jobs likely to be initially affected by broad social distancing and later by … ATUS. Our main finding is that workers in low-work-from-home or high-physical- proximity jobs are more economically … workers predicted to be employed in low work-from-home jobs experienced greater declines in employment according to the March …

Austria that allowed workers in eligible regions to exit the labor force 3 years earlier compared to workers in non … induced eligible workers to exit the labor force significantly earlier. Instrumental variable estimation results show that for …

Academics, the media, and policymakers have all raised concerns about the implications of human workers being replaced … workers. We show that this flexibility can help new firms overcome uncertainty and increase entrepreneurial entry. We develop …

workers are more favourable to unions when management is positive toward unions, but also favor them when management strongly … opposes unionism, compared to management having a neutral view. Much of the difference in the response of US and UK workers to …Workers have responded differently to declining union density in the US and UK. US workers have unfilled demand for …

-elected elites to the wider population, most of whom will be workers. The Hecksher-Ohlin-Stolper-Samuelson logic says that … democratization should lead to more liberal trade policies in countries where workers stand to gain from free trade; and to more … protectionist policies in countries where workers will benefit from the imposition of tariffs and quotas. We test and confirm these …

This paper examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on employment and respiratory health for remote workers (i ….e. those who can work from home) and non-remote workers in the United States. Using a large, nationally-representative, high …-remote workers. This gap is larger than the differential job losses for women, African Americans, Hispanics, or workers without …