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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Worker mobility"”.
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Worker mobility and unemployment
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1986.
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The effect of accrued pension benefit preservation on worker mobility in multiemployer plans
The relationship between mobility of vested plan participants and the use of reciprocity agreements in multiemployer plans was investigated. The assumption that pension benefit forfeiture retards worker mobility was considered. The assumption that worker mobility is enhanced by benefit preservation …
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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FIRM PRODUCTIVITY: INVESTIGATING THE IMPACTS OF SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE MODEL AND WORKER MOBILITY
… software firms. Study 2 examines the impacts of worker mobility on the productivity of IT firms. Using a novel structural approach with joint General Moment Method estimation and a large dataset on labor mobility derived from LinkedIn, the study shows that hiring one employee from leading …
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Commitment in Labor and Credit Contracts With Asymmetric Information, Bankruptcy and Extensive Form Gaming
This thesis investigates the effects of worker mobility and renegotiation on a firm's contracts for labor and credit, when information is asymmetric and the firm is subject to limited liability. These effects are analyzed in two chapters. The first chapter analyzes the contracts with commitment …
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Cities and Labor Market Dynamics
… economic models of the national labor market. Workers choose the markets in which they will participate, but there are costs to mobility. Furthermore, cities are heterogeneous in a number of dimensions, including their local labor market productivity, their housing supply, and their offering of …
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Essays on Paid Sick Leave in the United States
… causal effect of access to paid sick leave on worker mobility, by exploiting variation in the implementation of local paid sick leave mandates over time in the U.S. I use May 2004 - June 2019 Current Population Survey (CPS) basic monthly data, and by taking a Difference-in-Differences approach, …
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Essays on Information Technology Adoption among Commercial Firms
… a research overview. Chapter 2 investigates how worker mobility influences the adoption of a new general-purpose technology (GPT) that requires significant complementary investments. I use the state-level changes to the enforceability of noncompete agreements as a plausible exogenous shock to …
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Over-education in the Labour Market: Evidence from Australia
… a three essay approach to examine the impact of worker ‘skill matching’ on earnings and labour mobility. The analyses are at the individual level based on micro-panel-data in the Australian labour market. The first essay explores the determinants of over-education and its impact on earnings in …
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Three Essays on Social Networks in Labor Markets
… region. The second essay models how screening workers through social networks impacts labor mobility in markets with adverse selection. When there is asymmetric information in labor markets, worker mobility is constrained by adverse selection in the market for experienced workers. However, if …
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The gender landscape of the Taiwanese public-sector labour market
… It focuses on gendered occupational segregation, worker mobility in terms of job transfers and promotion, everyday work–life arrangements, and the influence of locality on workplace dynamics and individuals’ career moves. The public sector, especially that in East Asian countries, has long been …
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Cities, networks, and knowledge spillovers
… big winners. The first chapter focuses on how worker mobility can bring different types of knowledge to pioneer companies in Brazil. Using methods from network science to build indicators of knowledge relatedness, we explore the question: how does the success of entrepreneurial activities …