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The 2004 Global Labor Survey : Workplace Institutions and Practices Around the World
Chor, Davin; Freeman, Richard B. - 2021
The 2004 Global Labor Survey (GLS) is an Internet-based survey that seeks to measure de facto labor practices in countries around the world, covering issues such as freedom of association, the regulation of work contracts, employee benefits and the prevalence of collective bargaining. To find...
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Does Linking Worker Pay to Firm Performance Help the Best Firms Do Even Better?
Kruse, Douglas L. - 2015
This paper analyzes the linkages among group incentive methods of compensation, labor practices, worker assessments of workplace culture, turnover, and firm performance in a non-representative sample of companies: firms that applied to the "100 Best Companies to Work For in America" competition...
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Effects of Daily School and Care Disruptions During the Covid-19 Pandemic on Child Mental Health
Gassman-Pines, Anna; Ananat, Elizabeth; Fitz-Henley, John; … - 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly affected American children, including disruptions to their care and school settings. Children attending in-person child care or school have contended with unpredictable closures and time in remote school, which in turn is subject to its own types of...
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Stress Relief? : Funding Structures and Resilience to the Covid Shock
Forbes, Kristin J.; Friedrich, Christian; Reinhardt, Dennis - 2023
, and counterparty location of funding—and the extent of financial stress experienced in different countries and sectors … during the sharp risk-off shock in early 2020 when Covid-19 spread globally. We measure financial stress using a new dataset …-sector-time panels to assess how different funding structures are related to financial stress. A higher share of funding from non …
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Panel Forecasts of Country-Level Covid-19 Infections
Liu, Laura - 2020
We use dynamic panel data models to generate density forecasts for daily Covid-19 infections for a panel of countries/regions. At the core of our model is a specification that assumes that the growth rate of active infections can be represented by autoregressive fluctuations around a downward...
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Data Gaps and the Policy Response to the Novel Coronavirus
Stock, James H. - 2020
that are not tested under current guidelines), is not well estimated in the literature because tests for the coronavirus …
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Covid-19 Vaccination Mandates and Vaccine Uptake
Karaivanov, Alexander; Kim, Dongwoo; Lu, Shih En; … - 2022
France, Italy and Germany corroborates this finding, and we estimate cumulative gains of up to 5 percentage points in … (around 6 mln) and Germany (around 3.5 mln) 11 to 16 weeks after the proof of vaccination mandate announcements …
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The Impact of Covid-19 on Us Firms
Bloom, Nicholas; Fletcher, Robert; Yeh, Ethan - 2021
We use survey data on an opt-in panel of around 2,500 US small businesses to assess the impact of COVID-19. We find a significant negative sales impact that peaked in Quarter 2 of 2020, with an average loss of 29% in sales. The large negative impact masks significant heterogeneity, with over 40%...
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Selection in Surveys
Dutz, Deniz; Huitfeldt, Ingrid; Lacouture, Santiago; … - 2022
We evaluate how nonresponse affects conclusions drawn from survey data and consider how researchers can reliably test and correct for nonresponse bias. To do so, we examine a survey on labor market conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic that used randomly assigned financial incentives to...
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Disease, Downturns, and Wellbeing : Economic History and the Long-Run Impacts of Covid-19
Arthi, Vellore - 2020
How might COVID-19 affect human capital and wellbeing in the long run? The COVID-19 pandemic has already imposed a heavy human cost—taken together, this public health crisis and its attendant economic downturn appear poised to dwarf the scope, scale, and disruptiveness of most modern...
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