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Ode to the Sea : Workplace Organizations and Norms of Cooperation
Gneezy, Uri - 2014
approach is to compare behavior in Brazilian fishermen societies that differ along one major dimension: the workplace …
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Intergenerational Transmission of Gender Attitudes : Evidence from India
Dhar, Diva - 2015
This paper examines the intergenerational transmission of gender attitudes in India, a setting where discrimination against women and girls is severe. We use survey data on gender attitudes (specifically, views about the appropriate roles and rights of women and girls) collected from adolescents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013018301
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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 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,...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012775880
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How Do Workplace Smoking Laws Work? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Local Laws in Ontario, Canada
Carpenter, Christopher S. - 2007
There are very large literatures in public health and economics on the effects of workplace smoking bans, with most … studies relying on cross-sectional variation. We provide new quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of workplace bans by …-law significantly reduced SHS exposure among blue collar workers by 25-30 percent, and we confirm that workplace smoking laws reduce …
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