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The Productivity of Professions : Evidence from the Emergency Department
Chan, David C.; Chen, Yiqun - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
overlapping tasks but with stark differences in background, training, and pay. Using data from the Veterans Health Administration …
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Training, Communications Patterns, and Spillovers Inside Organizations
Espinosa, Miguel; Stanton, Christopher T. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We study direct productivity changes and spillovers after a randomized training program for the frontline workers in a … spillovers to manager productivity changes the organization's implied return on investment from the training program, expanding … the set of training investments that can be supported …
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On the Allocation and Impacts of Managerial Training
Adhvaryu, Achyuta; Murathanoglu, Emir; Nyshadham, Anant - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study the allocation and productivity consequences of training production line supervisors in soft skills via a … randomized controlled trial. Consistent with standard practice for training investments within firms, we asked middle managers … -- who sit above supervisors in the hierarchy -- to nominate members of their supervisory team for training. Program access …
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The Power of Proximity to Coworkers : Training for Tomorrow or Productivity Today?
Emanuel, Natalia; Harrington, Emma; Pallais, Amanda - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Amidst the rise of remote work, we ask: what are the effects of proximity to coworkers? We find being near coworkers has tradeoffs: proximity increases long-run human capital development at the expense of short-term output. We study software engineers at a Fortune 500 firm, whose main campus has...
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Discrete-Choice Models and Representative Consumer Theory
Dubé, Jean-Pierre H.; Joo, Joonhwi; Kim, Kyeongbae - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We establish the Hurwicz-Uzawa integrability of the broad class of discrete-choice additive random-utility models of individual consumer behavior with perfect substitutes preferences and divisible goods. We derive the corresponding indirect uility function and then establish a representative...
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Organizational Responses to Product Cycles
Adhvaryu, Achyuta; Bassi, Vittorio; Nyshadham, Anant; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
to also invest in its training resources …
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Managing to Learn
Beg, Sabrin; Fitzpatrick, Anne E.; Lucas, Adrienne M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Instructional Management (0.3SD) and student learning (0.11SD) with existing systems and personnel. Additional management training …
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The Link between Health and Working Longer : Disparities in Work Capacity
Berger, Benjamin; Lopez Garcia, Italo; Maestas, Nicole; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Good health is important for employment at older ages. However, little is known about how health-related functional abilities interact with occupational demands to shape work capacity. Using new data, we quantify individuals' functional abilities, combine that information with...
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Skill Heterogeneity and Aggregate Labor Market Dynamics
Grigsby, John R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper studies aggregate labor market dynamics when workers have heterogeneous skills for tasks which are subject to non-uniform labor demand shocks. When workers have different skills, movements in aggregate wages partly reflect a reallocation of different workers across tasks and into...
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The Labor Market Impacts of Technological Change : From Unbridled Enthusiasm to Qualified Optimism to Vast Uncertainty
Autor, David H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This review considers the evolution of economic thinking on the relationship between digital technology and inequality across four decades, encompassing four related but intellectually distinct paradigms, which I refer to as the education race, the task polarization model, the...
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