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To Grandmother's House We Go: Informal Childcare and Female Labor Mobility

open access: yesInternational Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We document how childcare costs and the location of extended family influence the labor supply and mobility of US women. Women return to their home locations immediately before fertility events, suggesting that informal childcare needs may motivate home migration. Women who live near their parents have lower child earnings penalties.
Garrett Anstreicher, Joanna Venator
wiley   +1 more source

The Decentralization of Liquor Policies in Texas During the Post‐Prohibition Era

open access: yesInternational Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine the decentralization of liquor policies in Texas during the Post‐Prohibition era using newly collected historical legislative roll call data. By combining these data with local referendum vote shares, we analyze both legislators' and constituents' preferences on liquor policy.
Andrew Arnold, Holger Sieg
wiley   +1 more source

Profit Sharing, Teams, and Earnings

open access: yesIndustrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the impact of two team arrangements on the association between profit sharing and workers' earnings. In non‐interconnected teams individuals work on a single team, whereas in interconnected teams some employees work on several teams.
Marco A. Barrenechea‐Méndez   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Organizational Fairness Perceptions, Employee Representation, and Firm Performance

open access: yesIndustrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT From a theoretical perspective, employees' fairness perceptions play a vital role in explaining the effect of employee representation on individual and firm‐level outcomes. However, the fairness argument has not been scrutinized in empirical studies yet. Using German longitudinal linked employer‐employee data, we show that particularly central
Jens Mohrenweiser, Christian Pfeifer
wiley   +1 more source

From Efficiency to Illness: Do Highly Automatable Jobs Take a Toll on Health in Germany?

open access: yesIndustrial Relations Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Automation transforms work at a rapid pace, with gradually increasing shares of the workforce at risk of being replaced by machines. However, little is known about how this risk is affecting workers. In this study, we examine the relationship between exposure to high automation risk at work and both subjective (self‐reported health, anxiety ...
Mariia Vasiakina, Christian Dudel
wiley   +1 more source

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