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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 …
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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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Donor Governance and Financial Management in Prominent U.S. Art Museums
Yermack, David - 2015
I study “donor governance,” which occurs when contributors to non-profit firms place restrictions on their gifts to limit the discretion of managers. In a study of U.S. art museums, I find that this practice has grown significantly in recent years, and it represents the largest source of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013024867
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Are Political and Charitable Giving Substitutes? Evidence from the United States
Petrova, Maria; Perez-Truglia, Ricardo; Simonov, Andrei; … - 2022
We provide evidence that individuals substitute between political contributions and charitable contributions, using micro data from the American Red Cross and Federal Election Commission. First, in a lab experiment, we show that information on the importance of charitable giving increases...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324695
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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 …
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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
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Race, Segregation, and Postal Employment : New Evidence on Spatial Mismatch
Boustan, Leah Platt - 2007
The spatial mismatch hypothesis posits that employment decentralization isolated urban blacks from work opportunities. This paper focuses on one large employer that has remained in the central city over the twentieth century - the U.S. Postal Service. We find that blacks substitute towards...
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