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The Expanding Workweek? Understanding Trends in Long Work Hours Among U.S. Men, 1979-2004
Kuhn, Peter; Lozano, Fernando A. - 2021
According to Census and CPS data, the share of employed American men regularly working more than 48 hours per week is higher today than it was 25 years ago. Using CPS data from 1979 to 2006, we show that this increase was greatest among highly educated, highly-paid, and older men, was...
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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 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 …
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Return of the Solow Paradox? It, Productivity, and Employment in U.S. Manufacturing
Acemoglu, Daron - 2014
An increasingly influential "technological-discontinuity" paradigm suggests that IT-induced technological changes are rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some...
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Systemic Discrimination Among Large U.S. Employers
Kline, Patrick; Rose, Evan K.; Walters, Christopher - 2023
We study the results of a massive nationwide correspondence experiment sending more than 83,000 fictitious applications with randomized characteristics to geographically dispersed jobs posted by 108 of the largest U.S. employers. Distinctively Black names reduce the probability of employer...
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Unfit for Service : The Implications of Rising Obesity for U.S. Military Recruitment
Cawley, John - 2010
2007-08. As of 2007-08, 5.7 million men (11.70%) and 16.5 million women (34.65%) of military age exceed the U.S. Army …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137605
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History Dependence, Cohort Attachment, and Job Referrals in Networks of Close Relationships
Chen-Zion, Ayal - 2019
We model network formation in a firm. Agents learn about the quality of their working relationships with each other. Their good relationships become their networks. Accumulating relationships becomes increasingly costly, however. Over time agents become less open to forming relationships with...
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Demographics and Automation
Acemoglu, Daron - 2018
We argue theoretically and document empirically that aging leads to greater (industrial) automation, and in particular, to more intensive use and development of robots. Using US data, we document that robots substitute for middle-aged workers (those between the ages of 36 and 55). We then show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012924461
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The Intergenerational Effects of a Large Wealth Shock : White Southerners after the Civil War
Ager, Philipp - 2019
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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Learning from Coworkers
Jarosch, Gregor - 2019
We investigate learning at the workplace. To do so, we use German administrative data that contain information on the …
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