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Management Practices, Workforce Selection and Productivity
Bender, Stefan - 2016
mediated through employee decision-making and effort. To the extent that these practices are complementary with workers' skills …
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Who's the Boss? The Effect of Strong Leadership on Employee Turnover
Carter, Susan Payne - 2016
Despite the importance placed on supervision in the workplace, little is known about the effects of a boss' leadership … region, high SAT, and undergraduate institution as their bosses who also have strong leadership qualities retain at the …
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Skills, exports, and the wages of five million Latin American workers
Brambilla, Irene - 2010
wages and the demand for skills"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site …
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Big bad banks? : the impact of u.s. branch deregulation on income distribution
Beck, Thorsten - 2007
"Policymakers and economists disagree about the impact of bank regulations on the distribution of income. Exploiting cross-state and cross-time variation, we test whether liberalizing restrictions on intra-state branching in the United States intensified, ameliorated, or had no effect on income...
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Trade protection and industry wage structure in Poland
Goh, Chor-ching - 2005
"This study examines the impact of Poland's trade liberalization 1994-2001 on the industry wage structure. The liberalization was undertaken in preparation for Poland's accession to the European Union and was more pronounced in industries with larger shares of unskilled labor. Our analysis...
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Do CEOs know best? : evidence from China
Bloom, Nicholas; Cheng, Hong; Duggan, Mark G.; Li, Hongbin - 2018
We analyze a new management survey for around 1,000 firms and 10,000 employees across two large provinces in China. The unique aspect of this survey is it collected management data from the CEO, a random sample of senior managers and workers. We document four main results. First, management...
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Skills, Majors, and Jobs : Does Higher Education Respond?
Conzelmann, Johnathan G.; Hemelt, Steven W.; Hershbein, Brad - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
How do college students and postsecondary institutions react to changes in skill demand in the U.S. labor market? We quantify the magnitude and nature of response in the 4-year sector using a new measure of labor demand at the institution-major level that combines online job ads with geographic...
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The Changing Skill Content of Private Sector Union Coverage
Dodini, Samuel; Lovenheim, Michael F.; Willén, Alexander - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
the Occupational Information Network. We partition skills into four groups based on two dimensions of task requirements … unionized jobs have changed to require more non-routine, cognitive skills and for women, less routine/manual skills. Union, non … also relatively more routine skills. We decompose these skill changes into: (1) changes in skills within an occupation, (2 …
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Allocative Skill
Caplin, Andrew; Deming, David J.; Leth-Petersen, Søren; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Jobs increasingly require good decision-making. Workers are valued not only for how much they can do, but also for their ability to decide what to do. In this paper we develop a theory and measurement paradigm for assessing individual variation in the ability to make good decisions about...
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Love and Money : A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Household Sorting and Inequality
Fernandez, Raquel - 2001
This paper examines the interactions between household matching, inequality, and per capita income. We develop a model in which agents decide whether to become skilled or unskilled, form households, consume and have children. We show that the equilibrium sorting of spouses by skill type (their...
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