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. These findings are robust to a series of sensitivity analyses. The results suggest that blue-collar workers "wear out …
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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 …
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Cyclical patterns in earnings can arise when contracts between firms and their workers are incomplete, and when workers …
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The nullification of slave wealth after the U.S. Civil War (1861-65) was one of the largest episodes of wealth compressions in history. We document that white Southern households holding more slave assets in 1860 lost substantially more wealth by 1870, relative to households that had been...
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with future wage growth, particularly if those workers earn more. Motivated by this fact, we propose a dynamic theory of a … competitive labor market where firms produce using teams of heterogeneous workers that learn from each other. We develop a …
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decreased the subsidy for contributions to capital pension accounts for Danish workers in the top income tax bracket, we provide …
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co-workers who provide referrals will be drawn disproportionately from the referred workers' hiring cohorts at their …
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cost them their jobs. This paper assesses the impact of that fear on how clerical workers vote in union certification … office work were developed. Clerical workers in offices that were judged to be easier to relocate were found to be more … most likely to report that the fear that they would lose their jobs was a significant consideration. Further, workers in …
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educated, highly-paid, and older men, was concentrated in the 1980s, and was largely confined to workers paid on a salaried …
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We examine the effect of hearing cases alongside female judicial colleagues on the probability that a federal judge hires a female law clerk. Federal judges are assigned to cases and to judicial panels at random and have few limitations on their choices of law clerks: these two features make the...
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