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Nonprofit Sector and Part-Time Work: An Analysis of Employer-Employee Matched Data of Child Care Workers

Mocan, H. Naci; Tekin, Erdal - 2001

This paper uses a rich employer-employee matched data set to investigate the existence and the extent of nonprofit and part-time wage and compensation differentials in child care. The empirical strategy adjusts for workers? self-selection into the for-profit or nonprofit sectors, into full-time...

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Occupational tasks and changes in the wage structure

Firpo, Sergio; Fortin, Nicole M.; Lemieux, Thomas - 2011

This paper argues that changes in the returns to occupational tasks have contributed to changes in the wage distribution over the last three decades. Using Current Population Survey (CPS) data, we first show that the 1990s polarization of wages is explained by changes in wage setting between and...

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Do unions promote members' electoral office holding? Evidence from correlates of state legislatures' occupational shares

Sojourner, Aaron J. - 2012

Controversies over the promise and perils of union political influence have erupted around the U.S. This study develops the first evidence on the degree to which labor unions develop members' political leadership in the broader community by studying the relationship between state legislators'...

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Social connections and incentives in the workplace: evidence from personnel data

Bandiera, Oriana; Barankay, Iwan; Rasul, Imran - 2008

. To evaluate whether the existence of social connections is beneficial to the firm's overall performance, we explore how … irrespective of the worker's ability, but when they are paid performance bonuses, they target their effort towards high ability … performance of connected workers, we find that favoring connected workers is detrimental for the firm's overall performance. …

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The firm as the locus of social comparisons: Internal labor markets versus up-or-out

Auriol, Emmanuelle; Friebel, Guido; Lammers, Frauke - 2012

in which a worker's status depends on past performance. We investigate the optimality of two types of promotion …

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Does Management Matter in Schools?

Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - 2014

We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the...

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Returns for entrepreneurs vs. employees: the effect of education and personal control on the relative performance of entrepreneurs vs. wage employees

van Praag, C. Mirjam; van Witteloostuijn, Arjen; van … - 2009

How valuable is education for entrepreneurs' performance as compared to employees'? What might explain any differences … show furthermore that entrepreneurs have higher returns to education than employees (in terms of the comparable performance …

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Return of the Solow Paradox? IT, Productivity, and Employment in U.S. Manufacturing

Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David; Dorn, David; Hanson, … - 2014

An increasingly influential technological-discontinuity paradigm suggests that IT-induced technological changes are rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited...

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How much does immigration boost innovation?

Hunt, Jennifer; Gauthier-Loiselle, Marjolaine - 2009

We measure the extent to which skilled immigrants increase innovation in the United States by exploring individual patenting behavior as well as state-level determinants of patenting. The 2003 National Survey of College Graduates shows that immigrants patent at double the native rate, and that...

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