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Matching and Sorting in a Global Economy
Grossman, Gene M. - 2013
, labor and "managers", each with a distribution of ability levels. Production combines a manager of some type with a group of …
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The Value of Stock Options to Non-Executive Employees
Hallock, Kevin F. - 2010
This study empirically investigates the value employees place on stock options using information from the option … exercise behavior of individuals. Employees hold options for another period if the value from holding them and reserving the … information about the value to employees of holding options another time period. We show the parameters of this model are …
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Organizational Change in French Manufacturing : What Do We Learn from Firm Representatives and from Their Employees?
Greenan, Nathalie; Mairesse, Jacques - 2021
general features of organizational change in manufacturing firms with more than 50 employees. In a first section, we explore …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013225946
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The Effects of Covid-19 on U.S. Small Businesses : Evidence from Owners, Managers, and Employees
Alekseev, Georgij - 2020
We analyze a large-scale survey of owners, managers, and employees of small businesses in the United States to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012830234
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Does Input Quality Drive Measured Differences in Firm Productivity?
Fox, Jeremy T. - 2011
Firms in the same industry can differ in measured productivity by multiples of 3. Griliches (1957) suggests one explanation: the quality of inputs differs across firms. We add labor market history variables such as experience and firm and industry tenure, as well as general human capital...
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Occupational Status and Health Transitions
Morefield, Brant - 2011
We use longitudinal data from the 1984 through 2007 waves of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to examine how occupational status is related to the health transitions of 30 to 59 year-old U.S. males. A recent history of blue-collar employment predicts a substantial increase in the probability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129211
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Financial Knowledge and Financial Literacy at the Household Level
Gustman, Alan L. - 2010
This paper uses data from the Health and Retirement Study to explore the mechanism that underlies the robust relation found in the literature between cognitive ability, and in particular numeracy, and wealth, income constant. We have a number of findings. First, the more valuable the pension,...
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The Funding Status of Retiree Health Plans in the Public Sector
Clark, Robert L. - 2010
retirement benefit to their employees. While these plans are thought to be an important tool for employers to attract, retain …
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The Unexpected Long-Run Impact of the Minimum Wage : An Educational Cascade
Sutch, Richard C. - 2010
Neglected, but significant, the long-run consequence of the minimum wage - which was made national policy in the United States in 1938 - is its stimulation of capital deepening. This took two forms. First, the engineered shortage of low-skill, low-paying jobs induced teenagers to invest in...
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Skill-Biased Technological Change, Earnings of Unskilled Workers, and Crime
Mocan, Naci H. - 2011
This paper investigates the impact of unskilled workers' earnings on crime. Following the literature on wage inequality and skill-biased technological change, we employ CPS data to create state-year as well as state-year-and (broad) industry specific measures of skill-biased technological...
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