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Using Finnish panel data, we study how entrepreneurs differ from workers in education and income dynamics. We find that … workers have higher median income in all educational groups. Without additional controls, entrepreneurs have higher average … switch from entrepreneurship to workers, while education does not explain, in a statistically significant level, switching …
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workers worldwide. Within this framework, we estimate the effects of weather conditions on daily commuting and travel choices … workers, finding significant relationships between daily weather conditions, commuting time, and travel choices. Rainy days …
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-level results show that directly-affected workers (e.g., bluecollar workers performing routine or replaceable tasks) face lower … earnings and employment rates, while other workers indirectly gain from robot adoption. We also find that the negative effects … from competitors' robot adoption load on directly-affected workers, while other workers benefit from this industry …
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Using Finnish panel data, we study how entrepreneurs differ from workers in education and income dynamics. We find that … workers have higher median income in all educational groups. Without additional controls, entrepreneurs have higher average … switch from entrepreneurship to workers, while education does not explain, in a statistically significant level, switching …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703456
This paper examines how the effort choices of workers within the same firm interact with each other. In contrast to the … existing literature, we show that workers can affect the productivity of their co-workers based on income maximization … show that a worker's effort has a positive effect on the effort of co-workers if they are complements in production, and a …
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We investigate whether the costs of job displacement differ between blue collar and white collar workers. In the short … run earnings and employment losses are substantial for both groups but stronger for white collar workers. In the long run …, there are only weak effects for blue collar workers but strong and persistent effects for white collars. This is consistent …
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receive high compensation for their education and experience. Less educated workers allocate to the informal sector. While …
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employed workers in competitive labor markets. The reason is that employers may not comply with the minimum wage legislation … and instead pay a lower subminimum wage rate. If workers are risk neutral, we prove that working hours and welfare are … invariant to the minimum wage rate. If workers are risk averse and imprudent (which is the empirically likely case), then …
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We estimate the causal effect of early retirement on mortality for blue-collar workers. To overcome the problem of … endogenous selection, we exploit an exogenous change in unemployment insurance rules in Austria that allowed workers in eligible … incidence ofcardiovascular disorders among eligible workers, suggesting that changes in health-related behavior explain …
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. These findings are robust to a series of sensitivity analyses. The results suggest that blue-collar workers wear out faster …
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