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Competitive exams are a standard method for selecting civil servants. Yet, evidence on the effectiveness of such approach is mixed, and lack of personnel data limits our understanding of the mechanisms underlying this varying success. We digitize personnel and financial data to study the impacts...
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There are very large literatures in public health and economics on the effects of workplace smoking bans, with most … studies relying on cross-sectional variation. We provide new quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of workplace bans by … using the differential timing of adoption of over 100 very strong local smoking by-laws in Ontario, Canada over the period …
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We conducted a randomized controlled trial involving nearly 700 customer-service representatives (CSRs) in a Canadian government service agency to study whether providing CSRs with performance feedback with or without peer comparison affected their subsequent organ donor registration rates....
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Using micro-data representing over 130 million online work profiles, we explore transitions into and out of jobs most likely to be affected by a transition away from carbon-intensive production technologies. Exploiting detailed textual data on job title, firm name, occupation, and industry to...
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Workplace drug testing programs are becoming increasingly more common although there is little research demonstrating … workplace drug- testing policy implemented by the military in 1981. The military's policy incorporates random drug testing of …
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This paper evaluates a class of endogenous job destruction models based on how well they explain the observed experiences of displaced workers. We show that pure reallocation models in which relationship-specific productivity drifts downward over time are difficult to reconcile with the evidence...
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that it is a cluster of complementary changes involving IT, workplace organization and services that is the key skill …-biased technical change. We examine new firm-level data linking several indicators of IT use, workplace organization, and the demand … complementarity. IT use is complementary to a new workplace organization which includes broader job responsibilities for line workers …
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We examine whether the decline in the availability of employer-provided health insurance is a phenomenon common to all jobs or is concentrated only on certain jobs. In particular, we investigate the extent to which employers have continued to provide health insurance on what we term reducing the...
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We develop and quantitatively implement a dynamic general equilibrium model with labor" market matching and endogenous job destruction. The model produces a close match with data on" job creation and destruction. Cyclical fluctuations in the job destruction rate serve to magnify the" effects of...
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these workplace policies reduce smoking prevalence and smoking intensity among workers. Our estimates suggest that workplace … work at establishments with workplace smoking bans, estimates from bivariate probit and two-stage least square equations … suggest that these estimates are not subject to an omitted variables bias. The rapid increase in workplace bans can explain …
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