Posts tagged with 'USA'
September 9, 2024
Employee Stock Ownership Plans boost job satisfaction in U.S. manufacturing sector
Study finds higher satisfaction with culture, leadership, and work-life balance in employee-owned firms
August 14, 2023
Worker pay rose in U.S. chains that abandoned no-poaching clauses
New study points to the importance of antitrust policy and enforcement for worker welfare
July 26, 2023
What we associate with first names and how it helps explain discrimination
Employers overestimate Black-White gap in productivity and discriminate, especially when making fast hiring decisions
June 16, 2023
How wildfires affect labor income
U.S. study shows that drifting wildfire smoke reduces earnings thousands of miles away
November 11, 2022
How firms adjust when they cannot hire foreigners for low-skill work
New study uses randomized work-visa restrictions to study the effect of low-skill immigration in the U.S.
August 20, 2021
Hotter temperatures increased workplace injuries in California
New study finds that incidents are undercounted in official records
December 10, 2018
Steering more students into STEM?
Costs of delivering postsecondary instruction differ markedly by field of study
November 19, 2018
Race-blind school admissions policy increases racial segregation
Rolling back integration efforts harms student outcomes
April 24, 2018
The moral hazard of life-saving innovations: Naloxone access, opioid abuse, and crime
By Jennifer Doleac and Anita Mukherjee The United States is grappling with an epidemic of opioid abuse and mortality. The […]
November 16, 2017
Economic costs of global warming
Climate change is considered one of the major challenges of the 21st century. While politicians and scientists at the COP23 […]
May 24, 2017
Rise in earnings inequality is the biggest difficulty in today’s US labor market
A new IZA World of Labor report looking at the US labor market (2000-2016) finds a remarkable drop in the […]