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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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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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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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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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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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Gender

Niederle, Muriel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

account for observed gender differences in economic outcomes including education and labor market outcomes as well as voting …

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Understanding Social Interactions: Evidence from the Classroom

Pellizzari, Michele; Giorgi, Giacomo De - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

Little is known about the economic mechanisms leading to the high level of clustering in behavior commonly observed in the data. We present a model where agents can interact according to three distinct mechanisms, and we derive testable implications which allow us to distinguish between the...

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Where is the Land of Opportunity? The Geography of Intergenerational Mobility in the United States

Chetty, Raj; Saez, Emmanuel; Hendren, Nathaniel; Kline, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

. Second, intergenerational mobility varies substantially across areas within the U.S. For example, the probability that a …

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Relaxing Occupational Licensing Requirements: Analyzing Wages and Prices for a Medical Service

Kleiner, Morris M.; Marier, Allison; Park, Kyoung Won; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Occupational licensing laws have been relaxed in a large number of U.S. states to give nurse practitioners the ability to perform more tasks without the supervision of medical doctors. We investigate how these regulations may affect wages, employment, costs, and quality of providing certain...

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The Trend is the Cycle: Job Polarization and Jobless Recoveries

Siu, Henry E.; Jaimovich, Nir - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

-skill occupations occurs in economic downturns; in this sense, job polarization has an important cyclical component. Second, jobless …

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