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The Adoption and Diffusion of Organizational Innovation : Evidence for the U.S. Economy
Lynch, Lisa M. - 2015
Using a unique longitudinal representative survey of both manufacturing and non-manufacturing businesses in the United States during the 1990's, I examine the incidence and intensity of organizational innovation and the factors associated with investments in organizational innovation. Past...
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Well-Being and Trust in the Workplace
Helliwell, John F. - 2009
This paper summarizes and extends our recent work using life satisfaction regressions to estimate the relative values …
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Subjective Outcomes in Economics
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2021
social sciences. Generally we contribute little if we merely engage in fancier empirical work and still less if we describe …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013231594
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Now Unions Increase Job Satisfaction and Well-Being
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2022
the seminal work of Freeman (1978) and Borjas (1979) in the 1970s and most empirical studies since. With data for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013295275
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The Long Road to the Fast Track : Career and Family
Goldin, Claudia - 2021
The career and family outcomes of college graduate women suggest that the twentieth century contained five distinct cohorts.' Each cohort made choices concerning career and family subject to different constraints. The first cohort, graduating college from the beginning of the twentieth century...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013237282
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Understanding the Economic Impact of COVID-19 on Women
Goldin, Claudia - 2022
did not exit the labor force in large numbers, and they did not greatly decrease their hours of work. The aggregate female … labor force participation rate did not plummet. The ability to balance caregiving and work differed greatly by education …, occupation, and race. The more educated could work from home. Those who began the period employed in various in-person “service …
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Slum Clearance and Urban Renewal in the United States
Collins, William J. - 2011
We study the local effects of a federal program that helped cities clear areas for redevelopment, rehabilitate structures, complete city plans, and enforce building codes. We use an instrumental variable strategy to estimate the program's effects on city-level measures of income, property...
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Early Life Environment and Racial Inequality in Education and Earnings in the United States
Chay, Kenneth Y. - 2014
Chay, Guryan and Mazumder (2009) found substantial racial convergence in AFQT and NAEP scores across cohorts born in the 1960's and early 1970's that was concentrated among blacks in the South. We demonstrated a close tracking between variation in the test score convergence across states and...
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Well-Being Over Time in Britain and the USA
Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2021
The standard of living in the industrialized nations has been steadily increasing over the last few decades. Yet some observers wonder whether we are really getting any happier. This paper addresses that question by examining well-being data on 100,000 randomly sampled Americans and Britons from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013310800
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Race and Economic Well-Being in the United States
Brouillette, Jean-Felix; Jones, Charles I.; Klenow, Peter - 2022
We construct a measure of consumption-equivalent welfare for Black and White Americans. Our statistic incorporates life expectancy, consumption, leisure, and inequality, with mortality rates playing a key role quantitatively. According to our estimates, welfare for Black Americans was 43% of...
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