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Does Marijuana Legalization Affect Work Capacity? Evidence from Workers' Compensation Benefits
Abouk, Rahi; Ghimire, Keshar M.; Maclean, Johanna Catherine - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
benefits and benefit amount. We estimate complementary declines in non-traumatic workplace injury rates and the incidence of …
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The Evolution of Skill Use Within and Between Jobs
Cavounidis, Costas; Dicandia, Vittoria; Lang, Kevin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We develop a tractable general equilibrium model for understanding within- and between-occupation changes in skill use over time. We apply the model to skill-use measures from the third, fourth, and revised fourth editions of the Dictionary of Occupational Titles and data from the 1960, 1970,...
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The Expanding Workweek? Understanding Trends in Long Work Hours Among U.S. Men, 1979-2004
Kuhn, Peter - 2005
According to Census and CPS data, the share of employed American men regularly working more than 48 hours per week is higher today than it was 25 years ago. Using CPS data from 1979 to 2006, we show that this increase was greatest among highly educated, highly-paid, and older men, was...
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The Growing Importance of Decision-Making on the Job
Deming, David J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Machines increasingly replace people in routine job tasks. The remaining tasks require workers to make open-ended decisions and to have "soft" skills such as problem-solving, critical thinking and adaptability. This paper documents growing demand for decision-making and explores the consequences...
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Who Benefits from Meritocracy?
Moreira, Diana B.; Pérez, Santiago - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Does screening applicants using exams help or hurt the chances of lower-SES candidates? Because individuals from lower socioeconomic backgrounds fare, on average, worse than those from richer backgrounds in standardized tests, a common concern with this "meritocratic" approach is that it might...
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Workers and the Green-Energy Transition : Evidence from 300 Million Job Transitions
Curtis, E. Mark; O’Kane, Layla; Park, Jisung - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Using micro-data representing over 130 million online work profiles, we explore transitions into and out of jobs most likely to be affected by a transition away from carbon-intensive production technologies. Exploiting detailed textual data on job title, firm name, occupation, and industry to...
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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 …
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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 …
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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...
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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