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The Influence of Occupational Licensing on Workforce Transitions to Retirement
Oh, Yun Taek; Kleiner, Morris M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Ways of leaving the labor force has been an understudied aspect of labor market outcomes. Labor market institutions such as occupational licensing may influence how individuals transition to retirement. When and how workers transition from career jobs to full retirement may contribute to pre-...
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Polarizing Corporations : Does Talent Flow to "Good" Firms?
Colonnelli, Emanuele; McQuade, Timothy; Ramos, Gabriel; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We conduct a field experiment in partnership with the largest job platform in Brazil to study how environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices of firms affect talent allocation. We find both an average job-seeker's preference for ESG and a large degree of heterogeneity across...
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Will robots take your job? : a plea for consensus
Cameron, Nigel Malcolm de Segur - 2017
"The trend that began with ATMs and do-it-yourself checkouts is moving at lightning speed. Everything from driving to teaching to the care of the elderly and, indeed, code-writing can now be done by smart machines. Conventional wisdom says there will be new jobs to replace those we lose ? but is...
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Robots, Labor Market Frictions, and Corporate Financial Policies
Liu, Alice (Yanguang) - 2020
Using a novel dataset from the International Federation of Robotics (IFR), I find that robots can transform the labor market landscape and mitigate the impact of labor market frictions on financial policy decisions. Firms with more robots, which reduce labor adjustment costs and operational...
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Industrial Robots, Workers' Safety, and Health
Gihleb, Rania - 2020
one standard deviation increase in robot exposure reduces work-related injuries by approximately 16%. These results are ….We also show that the US counties that are more exposed to robot penetration experience a significant increase in drug- or … outcomes in the US. Employing individual longitudinal data from Germany, we exploit within-individual changes in robot exposure …
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Industrial robots, workers' safety, and health
Gihleb, Rania; Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca; Wang, Tianyi - 2020
one standard deviation increase in robot exposure reduces work-related injuries by approximately 16%. These results are … also show that the US counties that are more exposed to robot penetration experience a significant increase in drug- or … outcomes in the US. Employing individual longitudinal data from Germany, we exploit within-individual changes in robot exposure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012289174
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Industrial robots, workers' safety, and health
Gihleb, Rania; Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca; Wang, Tianyi - 2020
one standard deviation increase in robot exposure reduces work-related injuries by approximately 16%. These results are … also show that the US counties that are more exposed to robot penetration experience a significant increase in drug- or … outcomes in the US. Employing individual longitudinal data from Germany, we exploit within-individual changes in robot exposure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012292487
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Industrial Robots, Workers' Safety, and Health
Gihleb, Rania; Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca; Wang, Tianyi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
establishment-level data on injuries, we find that a one standard deviation increase in our commuting zone-level measure of robot … to robot penetration experience a significant increase in drug- or alcohol-related deaths and mental health problems …. Employing longitudinal data from Germany, we exploit within-individual changes in robot exposure and document that a one …
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Too many graduates? : an application of the Gottschalk-Hansen model to young British graduates between 2001 - 2010
O'Leary, Nigel; Sloane, Peter J. - 2014
There is an apparent inconsistency in the existing literature on graduate employment in the UK. While analyses of rates of return to graduates or graduate mark-ups show high returns, suggesting that demand has kept up with a rapidly rising supply of graduates, the literature on over-education...
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The impact of welfare reform on leaver characteristics, employment and recidivism
Carrington, William James; Mueser, Peter R.; Troske, … - 2002
Welfare reform has transformed the U.S. cash assistance program for single parents and their children. Although there remains substantial uncertainty about the importance of reform in producing the subsequent decline in the welfare caseload, even less is known about its impact on the experiences...
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