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The Impact of Unionization on Establishment Closure: A Regression Discontinuity Analysis of Representation Elections

DiNardo, John Enrico; Lee, David S. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002

Using data on more than 27,000 establishments (1983-1999) in the United States, this paper produces estimates of the causal effect of unionization of employer closure by exploiting the fact that most employers become 'unionized' as a partial consequence of a secret ballot election among the...

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Can a Work Organization Have an Attitude Problem? The Impact of Workplaces on Employee Attitudes and Economic Outcomes

Freeman, Richard B.; Bartel, Ann; Ichniowski, Casey; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003

Using the employee opinion survey responses from several thousand employees working in 193 branches of a major U.S. bank, we consider whether there is a distinctive workplace component to employee attitudes despite the common set of corporate human resource management practices that cover all...

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Children and Their Parents' Labor Supply: Evidence from Exogenous Variation in Family Size

Angrist, Joshua; evans, william n. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1996

Although theoretical models of labor supply and the family are well developed, there are few credible estimates of key … two births in families with at least two children, to estimate the effect of additional children on parents' labor supply …) estimates. Moreover, unlike the OLS estimates, the female labor supply effects estimated using sex-mix instruments appear to be …

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How Do Friendships Form?

Sacerdote, Bruce; Marmaros, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

We examine how people form social networks among their peers. We use a unique dataset that tells us the volume of email between any two people in the sample. The data are from students and recent graduates of Dartmouth College. First year students interact with peers in their immediate proximity...

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Economic Impacts of Unionization on Private Sector Employers: 1984-2001

DiNardo, John Enrico; Lee, David S. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004

Economic impacts of unionization on employers are difficult to estimate in the absence of large, representative data on establishments with union status information. Estimates are also confounded by selection bias, because unions could organize at highly profitable enterprises that are more...

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Non-Cognitive Ability, Test Scores, and Teacher Quality: Evidence from 9th Grade Teachers in North Carolina

Jackson, C. Kirabo - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

This paper presents a model where teacher effects on long-run outcomes reflect effects on both cognitive skills (measured by test-scores) and non-cognitive skills (measured by non-test-score outcomes). Consistent with the model, results from administrative data show that teachers have causal...

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People, Places and Public Policy: Some Simple Welfare Economics of Local Economic Development Programs

moretti, enrico; Kline, Patrick - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

Most countries exhibit large and persistent geographical differences in wages, income and unemployment rates. A growing class of "place based" policies attempt to address these differences through public investments and subsidies that target disadvantaged neighborhoods, cities or regions. Place...

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What Should I Be When I Grow Up? Occupations and Unemployment over the Life Cycle

Gervais, Martin; Siu, Henry E.; Jaimovich, Nir; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Why is unemployment higher for younger individuals? We address this question in a frictional model of the labor market …

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The Friends Factor: How Students' Social Networks Affect Their Academic Achievement and Well-Being?

Lavy, Victor Chaim; Sand, Edith - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

In this paper, we estimate the influence of social relationships on educational attainment and social outcomes of students in school. More specifically, we investigate how losing different types of social relationships during the transition from elementary to middle school affect students'...

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Do Women Avoid Salary Negotiations? Evidence from a Large Scale Natural Field Experiment

list, john; Leibbrandt, Andreas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

One explanation advanced for the persistent gender pay differences in labor markets is that women avoid salary … negotiations. By using a natural field experiment that randomizes nearly 2,500 job-seekers into jobs that vary important details of … the labor contract, we are able to observe both the nature of sorting and the extent of salary negotiations. We observe …

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