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How was the Weekend? How the Social Context Underlies Weekend Effects in Happiness and other Emotions for US Workers
Helliwell, John F. - 2015
almost identical for all workers. We then explore the sources of weekend effects and find that workplace trust and workplace …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457294
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The Effects of Wage Contracts on Workplace Misbehaviors : Evidence from a Call Center Natural Field Experiment
Flory, Jeffrey A. - 2016
Workplace misbehaviors are often governed by explicit monitoring and strict punishment. Such enforcement activities can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456334
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The COVID-19 Pandemic Disrupted Both School Bullying and Cyberbullying
Bacher-Hicks, Andrew; Goodman, Joshua S.; Green, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
One-fifth of U.S. high school students report being bullied each year. We use internet search data for real-time tracking of bullying patterns as COVID-19 disrupted in-person schooling. We first show that, prepandemic, internet searches contain useful information about actual bullying behavior....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012794635
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The Consequences of Abuse, Neglect and Cyber-bullying on the Wellbeing of the Young
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Using cross-sectional data files for the United States we show that difficulties experienced in childhood - so-called Adverse Child Experiences (ACE)s - are strongly and significantly associated with mental health in adulthood. Our evidence is taken from eight Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance...
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The Backward Art of Slowing the Spread? Congregation Efficiencies during COVID-19
Mulligan, Casey B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Were workers more likely to be infected by COVID-19 in their workplace, or outside it? While both economic models of … the pandemic and public health policy recommendations often presume that the workplace is less safe, this paper seeks an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510616
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Computerization of White Collar Jobs
Dillender, Marcus; Forsythe, Eliza - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We investigate the impact of computerization of white-collar jobs on wages and employment. Using online job postings from 2007 and 2010--2016 for office and administrative support (OAS) jobs, we show that when firms adopt new software at the job-title level they increase the skills required of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013172165
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Workplace Segregation in the United States : Race, Ethnicity, and Skill
Hellerstein, Judith - 2005
Our results indicate that there is considerable segregation by education and language in the workplace. Racial … segregation in the workplace is of the same order of magnitude as education segregation, and segregation between Hispanics and … whites is larger yet. Only a tiny portion of racial segregation in the workplace is driven by education differences between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467078
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Agglomeration Economies and Race Specific Spillovers
Ananat, Elizabeth Oltmans; Fu, Shihe; Ross, Stephen L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Racial social isolation within and across workplaces may reduce firm productivity. We provide descriptive evidence that African-Americans feel socially isolated from Whites. To test whether isolation affects productivity, we estimate models of Total Factor Productivity for manufacturing firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012533396
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Procrastination in the Workplace : Evidence from the U.S. Patent Office
Frakes, Michael D. - 2016
, especially in the workplace. In this paper, we attempt to fill these gaps by exploring procrastination among U.S. patent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455693
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Understanding Labor Market Discrimination Against Transgender People : Evidence from a Double List Experiment and a Survey
Aksoy, Billur; Carpenter, Christopher; Sansone, Dario - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
level of support for transgender individuals in the workplace, and we find that labor market support for transgender people … workplace-related views toward transgender people and help us better understand employment discrimination against them …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013388839