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Usinga detailed sample of semi-skilled production workers we find that holding a wide range of personal and job-related characteristics constant, workers assigned to more complex jobs seem to be more likely to quit than are workers assigned to simpler jobs. Job complexity has no discernible...
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Employee ownership in U.S. companies has grown substantially in the past 20 years. This paper reviews and provides some meta-analyses on the accumulated evidence concerning the prevalence, causes, and effects of employee ownership, covering 25 studies of employee attitudes and behaviors, and 27...
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This paper reports the results of a survey of over 1500 employees who faced compulsory reductions of 10 percent in … related. Time spent in other work rose with the presence of children, especially for women. Employee reaction to the program … was generally favorable; married women were most positive and married men least positive. Workers 45 years of age and over …
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In this paper we analyze the relationship between turnover-driven growth and subjective wellbeing, using cross-sectional MSA level US data. We find that the effect of creative destruction on wellbeing is (i) unambiguously positive if we control for MSA-level unemployment, less so if we do not;...
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We examine the impact of individual-level motives upon innovative effort and performance in firms. Drawing from economics and social psychology, we develop a model of the impact of individuals' motives and incentives upon their innovative effort and performance. Using data on over 11,000...
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According to the well-being measure known as the U.N. Human Development Index, Australia now ranks 3rd in the world and … happiness, considers implications for policymakers, and explores where Australia lies in international subjective well …, where a common language should help subjective measures to be reliable, Australia performs poorly on a range of happiness …
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low-fertility countries women are much more likely than men to be opposed to having another child. We account for this …
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agency is related to who does research – a larger share of doctoral recipients supported by NIH are women (50%), African …
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We report on an experiment examining why default options impact behavior. By randomly assigning employees to different … cognitive cost of thinking through different savings scenarios. Default assignment also changes employees' attitudes toward …
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This paper explores the links between exports, export destinations and skill utilization by firms. We identify two mechanisms behind these links, which we integrate into a unified theory of export destinations and skills. First, exporting to high-income countries with higher valuation for...
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