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When Work Moves : Job Suburbanization and Black Employment
Miller, Conrad - 2018
This paper presents evidence that job suburbanization caused significant declines in black employment from 1970 to 2000 … across metropolitan areas, I find that job suburbanization is associated with substantial declines in black employment rates … relative to white employment rates. Evidence from nationally planned highway infrastructure corroborates a causal …
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Whom Do Employers Want? The Role of Recent Employment and Unemployment Status and Age
Farber, Henry S. - 2018
We use a resume audit study to better understand the role of employment and unemployment histories in affecting … findings solidify an emerging consensus on the role of age and employment on callback. First, among applicants across a broad …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453113
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Matching in Cities
Dauth, Wolfgang - 2018
In most countries, average wages tend to be higher in larger cities. In this paper, we focus on the role played by the matching of workers to firms in explaining geographical wage differences. Using rich administrative German data for 1985-2014, we show that wages in large cities are higher not...
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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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Alternative Work Arrangements
Mas, Alexandre - 2020
Alternative work arrangements, defined both by working conditions and by workers' relationship to their employers, are heterogeneous and common in the U.S. This article reviews the literature on workers' preferences over these arrangements, inputs to firms' decision to offer them, and the impact...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479130
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How Do Alternative Work Arrangements Affect Income Risk After Workplace Injury?
Broten, Nicholas - 2019
understanding the effects of these types of arrangements on employment and earnings risk for workers and the potential for existing … social insurance programs to address this risk. We study employment and earnings risk in the context of workplace injuries … employment and earnings risk posed by workplace injuries, comparing labor market outcomes after injury between temporary and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479938
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How do Older Workers use Nontraditional Jobs?
Munnell, Alicia H. - 2019
Working consistently through one's fifties and early sixties is key to attaining retirement security. However, workers also need access to retirement plans - so they can continue to accumulate resources - and health insurance - so they can avoid withdrawing assets in the event of a health shock....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480324
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Increasing Hours Worked : Moonlighting Responses to a Large Tax Reform
Tazhitdinova, Alisa - 2020
Moonlighting is increasingly popular in OECD countries, with 5 to 10% of workers holding two or more jobs. However, little is known about the responsiveness of moonlighting to financial incentives due to the lack of identifying variation. This paper studies a unique reform in Germany that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481274
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Do Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty Matter?
Ehrenberg, Ronald G. - 2004
During the last two decades, there has been a significant growth in the share of faculty members at American colleges and universities that are employed in part-time or in full-time non tenure-track positions. Our study is the first to address whether the increased usage of such faculty...
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Employment Relationships in the New Economy
Neumark, David - 2002
It is often argued that 'new economy' jobs are less likely to use traditional employment relationships, and more likely … to rely on 'alternative' or 'contingent' work. When we look at new economy jobs classified on the basis of employment in … high-tech industries, we do not find greater use of contingent or alternative employment relationships. However, when we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469804