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Measuring indirect effects of unfair employer behavior on worker productivity : a field experiment

Heinz, Matthias; Jeworrek, Sabrina; Mertins, Vanessa; … - 2017

employees work for two shifts. In one treatment, we lay off parts of the workforce before the second shift. Compared to two …

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Social interaction, co-Worker altruism, and incentives

Dur, Robert A. J. (contributor); Sol, Joeri (contributor) - 2008

Social interaction with colleagues is an important job attribute for many workers. To attract and retain workers, managers therefore need to think about how to create and preserve high-quality co-worker relationships. This paper develops a principal-multi-agent model where agents do not only...

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An overworked leave? : health care workforce effects of brexit

Costa-Font, Joan; Vilaplana Prieto, Cristina - 2025

We study the impact of the Brexit referendum on the quality of employment and working conditions of workers in the National Health Service (NHS). Using a difference-in-differences (DiD) design and propensity score matching to compare NHS employees with a control group referring to occupations...

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Nineteenth century white physical activity and calories : socioeconomic status and diets

Carson, Scott Alan - 2014

Using data from late 19th and early 20th century US prisons, this study estimates the basal metabolic rates and calories for Americans of European descent. Throughout the 19th century, white basal metabolic rates (BMRs) and calories declined across their respective distributions, and much of the...

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Nineteenth century black and mulatto physical activity, calories, and life expectancy

Carson, Scott Alan - 2014

Using data from late 19th and early 20th century US prisons, this study considers how black and mulatto basal metabolic rates and calories varied with economic development. During the 19th century, black physical activity and net nutrition declined during the late 19th and early 20th centuries...

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Title IX and the evolution of high school sports

Stevenson, Betsey (contributor) - 2007

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Beyond the classroom : using title IX to measure the return to high school sports

Stevenson, Betsey - 2010

expansion in female sports participation by using variation in the level of boys' athletic participation across states before … changes between pre- and post-cohorts reveals that a 10-percentage point rise in state-level female sports participation … participation. Furthermore, greater opportunities to play sports leads to greater female participation in previously male …

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Unemployment and endogenous reallocation over the business cycle

Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Visschers, Ludo - 2013 - This version: January 2013, First version: June 2010

We build an analytically and computationally tractable stochastic equilibrium model of unemployment in heterogeneous labor markets. Facing search frictions within markets and reallocation frictions between markets, workers endogenously separate from employment and endogenously reallocate between...

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The effects of COVID-19 on U.S. small businesses: evidence from owners, managers, and employees

Alekseev, Georgij; Amer, Safaa; Gopal, Manasa; Kuchler, … - 2020

We analyze a large-scale survey of owners, managers, and employees of small businesses in the United States to understand the effects of the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic on those businesses. The survey was fielded in late April 2020 among Facebook business page administrators, frequent...

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An equilibrium model of the African HIV/AIDS epidemic

Greenwood, Jeremy; Kircher, Philipp - 2018

Twelve percent of the Malawian population is HIV infected. Eighteen percent of sexual encounters are casual. A condom is used a third of the time. To analyze the Malawian epidemic, a choice-theoretic general equilibrium search model is constructed. In the developed framework, people select...

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