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A Business Case for Human Rights at Work? Experimental Evidence on Labor Trafficking and Child Labor at Brick Kilns in Bangladesh

Miller, Grant; Biswas, Debashish; Mahajan, Aprajit; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Globally, coercive labor (i.e., forced, bonded, and/or trafficked labor) and child labor are disproportionately prevalent in environments with weak regulatory enforcement and state capacity. Effective strategies for addressing them may therefore need to align with the private incentives of...

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Nudging the Nudger : A Field Experiment on the Effect of Performance Feedback to Service Agents on Increasing Organ Donor Registrations

House, Julian; Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario; Mažar, Nina - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

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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Optimal Assignment of Bureaucrats : Evidence from Randomly Assigned Tax Collectors in the DRC

Bergeron, Augustin; Bessone, Pedro; Kabeya Kabeya, John; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The assignment of workers to tasks and teams is a key margin of firm productivity and a potential source of state effectiveness. This paper investigates whether a low-capacity state can increase its tax revenue by optimally assigning its tax collectors. We study the two-stage random assignment...

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Information Frictions and Employee Sorting Between Startups

Bryan, Kevin A.; Hoffman, Mitchell; Sariri, Amir - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

-based startups, we create a custom job board and invite business school alumni to apply. The job board randomizes across applicants …

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Managers and the Management of Organizations

Roberts, John; Shaw, Kathryn - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We critically review the emerging literature in Organizational and Personnel Economics concerning the role of managers and management practices. Our focus is on the middle managers who populate the hierarchies between top executives and front-line employees. We are especially concerned with...

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Productivity and Wages : What Was the Productivity-Wage Link in the Digital Revolution of the Past, and What Might Occur in the AI Revolution of the Future?

Lazear, Edward P.; Shaw, Kathryn; Hayes, Grant E.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Wages have been spreading out across workers over time - or in other words, the 90th/50th wage ratio has risen over time. A key question is, has the productivity distribution also spread out across worker skill levels over time? Using our calculations of productivity by skill level for the U.S.,...

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Closing the Productivity Gap with the US : Causes and Consequences of the Productivity Program in Western Europe

Giorcelli, Michela - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper studies to what extent the transfer of US managerial technologies to Europe after World War II contributed to closing the gap with US businesses. Between 1952 and 1958, the US government sponsored the Productivity Program, which promoted management training trips for European managers...

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Application Flows

Davis, Steven J.; Samaniego de la Parra, Brenda - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We build and analyze a new U.S. database that links 125 million applications to job vacancies and employer-side clients … effects on posting durations. Third, job seekers display a striking propensity to target new postings, with almost half of … random search, even within narrow market segments and job categories. Moreover, posted offer wages play no role in explaining …

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Measuring Bias in Job Recommender Systems : Auditing the Algorithms

Zhang, Shuo; Kuhn, Peter Joseph - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We audit the job recommender algorithms used by four Chinese job boards by creating fictitious applicant profiles that …

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Exploitation of Labor? Classical Monopsony Power and Labor's Share

Brooks, Wyatt J. - 2019

How important is the exercise of classical monopsony power against labor for the level of wages and labor's share? We examine this in the context of China and India - two large, rapidly-growing developing economies. Using theory, we develop a novel screen to quantify how wages are affected by...

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