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The Effect of Job Complexity on Job Satisfaction : Evidence from Turnover and Absenteeism
Weiss, Andrew - 2021
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 Response to Compulsory Short-Time Work
Fuchs, Victor R.; Jacobsen, Joyce P. - 2021
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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What Makes Them Tick? Employee Motives and Firm Innovation
Sauermann, Henry - 2015
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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An Evaluation of the CPI Indexes for Prescription Drugs
Bosworth, Barry - 2018
The prescription drug component of the Consumer Price Index (CPI measures recent and past drug price changes, and provides the basis for projecting future price trends and health care expenditures. However, there are concerns about the adequacy of the price data because of recent changes in the...
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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...
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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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