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Immigration, workforce composition, and organizational performance : the effect of Brexit on NHS hospital quality

Castro-Pires, Henrique; Fischer, Kai; Mello, Marco; … - 2025

Restrictive immigration policies may force firms to abruptly change their workforce composition. But how does this impact the performance of these organizations? We study the effects of the 2016 Brexit referendum, which led to a drop in the share of EU nationality nurses in English hospitals....

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From followers to leaders : the career impact of high-quality managers

Chen, Yuyu; Hensel, Lukas; Yao, Xinjue - 2025

How does manager quality affect subordinates' career progression? We examine the causal effect of manager quality on workers' career outcomes in the context of managerial teams at a large construction firm. We exploit quasi-random variation in worker-manager matching through frequent project...

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Recessions and the labor market returns to cognitive and social skills

Frisvold, David E.; Kim, Sun Hyung - 2024

Although recessions negatively affect labor market outcomes, we find that individuals with greater cognitive skills have been less affected by recessions since 2000 compared to those in the 1980s and 1990s. This result occurs despite a decrease in the returns to cognitive skills over the last...

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Who gets to stay? : how mass layoffs reshape firms' skills structure

Margolis, David N.; Montana, Jaime - 2024

This paper contests the traditional view of layoffs as solely reactive to negative economic conditions. Using survey and administrative French data, we provide evidence on how firms strategically utilize mass layoffs to restructure their workforce composition. First, we investigate if firms use...

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Establishment size and the task content of jobs : evidence from 46 countries

De Vera, Micole; Garcia-Brazales, Javier - 2024

Using a mix of household- and employer-based survey data from 46 countries, we provide novel evidence that workers in larger establishments perform more non-routine analytical tasks, even within narrowly defined occupations. Moreover, workers in larger establishments rely more on the use of...

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Creative and strategic capabilities of generative AI : evidence from large-scale experiments

Bohren, Noah; Hakimov, Rustamdjan; Lalive, Rafael - 2024

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has made substantial progress, but its full capabilities remain unclear, and we still lack a comprehensive understanding of how people augment productivity with AI and perceive AI-generated outputs. This study compares the ability of AI to a representative...

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Prior work experience and entrepreneurship : the careers of young entrepreneurs

Gendron-Carrier, Nicolas - 2023

I investigate the mechanisms that drive sorting into entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial success among young individuals. I use Canadian matched owner-employeremployee data to conduct my investigation. Empirically, older entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs who have previously worked in high-wage...

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Self-efficacy and entrepreneurial performance of start-ups

Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander; Rodríguez, Daniel; … - 2023

-efficacy, we take a different perspective and investigate, based on a representative sample of 1,405 German business founders, how … business outcomes up to 19 months after business creation. Outcomes include start-up survival and entrepreneurial income, as … similarly distributed between female and male business founders, with effects being partly stronger for female entrepreneurs …

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Labour market effects of digital matching platforms : experimental evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Jones, Sam; Sen, Kunal - 2022

Can digital labour market platforms reduce search frictions in formal or informal labour markets? We study this question using a randomized experiment embedded in a tracer study of the work transitions of graduates from technical and vocational colleges in Mozambique. We implement an...

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The dynamics of power in labor markets : monopolistic unions versus monopsonistic employers

Samuel Dodini, Samuel; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Willén, … - 2022

This paper brings together the modern research on employer power and employee power by empirically examining the effects of unionization on worker earnings, employment, and inequality across differently concentrated markets. Exploiting national tax reforms to union membership dues as exogenous...

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