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Away from Home and Back : Coordinating (Remote) Workers in 1800 and 2020
Juhász, Réka - 2020
This paper examines the future of remote work by drawing parallels between two contexts: The move from home to factory-based production during the Industrial Revolution and the shift to work from home today. Both are characterized by a similar trade-off: the potential productivity advantage of...
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Sprouting Cities : How Rural America Industrialized
Eckert, Fabian; Juneau, John; Peters, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study the joint process of urbanization and industrialization in the US economy between 1880 and 1940. We show that only a small share of aggregate industrialization is accounted for by the relocation of workers from remote rural areas to industrial hubs like Chicago or New York City....
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Trade Liberalization and Labor Market Adjustment in Botswana
McMillan, Margaret S. - 2019
We study the effects of domestic trade liberalization on labor markets in Botswana. South Africa is the dominant member … plausibly exogenous tariff reductions for the other customs union members, including Botswana. Using labor force surveys from … Botswana spanning a decade, we find that trade liberalization did not affect the relative size of industries in terms of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480271
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When Knowledge is not Enough : HIV/AIDS Information and Risky Behavior in Botswana
Levinsohn, James A. - 2006
increase vulnerability to infection? We use data from two recent household surveys in Botswana to address this question. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466247
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Structural Change, Fundamentals and Growth : A Framework and Case Studies
McMillan, Margaret - 2017
development quest. The sample includes seven developing countries--Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia, India, Vietnam and Brazil …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455303
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Stuck in the Middle? Structural Change and Productivity Growth in Botswana
McCaig, Brian - 2015
This paper decomposes Botswana's growth from the late 1960s through 2010 into a within-sector and a between …-sector (structural change) component. We find that during the 70s and 80s Botswana's rapid economic growth was characterized by … that this is one of the reasons for persistent poverty and very high income inequality in Botswana today. This leaves us …
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The Effectiveness of Workplace Drug Prevention Policies : Does 'Zero Tolerance' Work?
Mehay, Stephen L. - 1999
Workplace drug testing programs are becoming increasingly more common although there is little research demonstrating that they have any effect on drug use by employees. This paper analyzes the deterrence effect of a particularly aggressive workplace drug- testing policy implemented by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471374
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Job Destruction and the Experiences of Displaced Workers
Haan, Wouter J. den - 1999
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471571
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Information Technology, Workplace Organization and the Demand for Skilled Labor : Firm-Level Evidence
Bresnahan, Timothy F. - 1999
Recently, the relative demand for skilled labor has increased dramatically. We investigate one of the causes, skill-biased technical change. Advances in information technology (IT) are among the most powerful forces bearing on the economy. Employers who use IT often make complementary...
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Designing Benefits for Platform Workers
Gruber, Jonathan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Designing benefits for the growing platform workforce in the U.S. poses significant challenges. While platform workers need protection against unforeseen shocks, work that is often part time and spread across multiple platforms makes the traditional benefits model untenable. This paper reports...
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