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      • 19 Jan 2021
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      Engaging Community to Create Proactive, Equitable Public Safety

      Saint Paul, Minnesota Mayor Melvin Carter swept into office in 2018 promising equity. He wanted a new public safety framework that would be rooted in community. Then, with the COVID-19 pandemic wiping out much of the city’s budget and the May 2020 killing of George Floyd by a police officer in neighboring Minneapolis sparking calls to defund the police, how would Mayor Carter make these changes happen? Professor Mitch Weiss discusses the challenges and rewards of “possibility government” in his case, "Community-First Public Safety."  Open for comment; 0 Comment(s) posted.

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      • 11 Jan 2021
      • Working Paper Summaries

      The Political Effects of Immigration: Culture or Economics?

      by Alberto Alesina and Marco Tabellini

      This paper reviews and explains the growing literature focused on the political effects of immigration, and highlights fruitful avenues for future research. When compared to potential labor market competition and other economic forces, broadly defined cultural factors have a stronger political and social impact.

      • 11 Dec 2020
      • Research & Ideas

      Economic Jitters Push Pandemic Job Seekers to Big Companies, Not Startups

      by Rachel Layne

      Small companies are receiving fewer applications, particularly from experienced professionals, according to research by Shai Bernstein and colleagues. How can startups overcome pandemic fears and compete for talent? Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 03 Dec 2020
      • Research & Ideas

      Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion

      by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

      As cost-cutting continues across the turbulent economy, companies are challenged to be creative when managing their human capital, say Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 01 Dec 2020
      • What Do You Think?

      How Can We Get Companies to Invest More in Low-Wage Workers?

      by James Heskett

      Does income inequality hold back economic growth? James Heskett ponders what underlying factors keep low-wage workers down. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 17 Nov 2020
      • Research & Ideas

      Why a Blended Workforce May Be Key to Lasting Competitive Advantage

      by Joseph B. Fuller

      Companies are increasingly blending full-time staff with skilled on-demand talent. The problem: Few companies have developed cultures that accommodate gig workers, says Joseph B. Fuller. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 03 Nov 2020
      • Working Paper Summaries

      The Stock Market Value of Human Capital Creation

      by Matthias Regier and Ethan Rouen

      Measuring human capital creation is complex but increasingly important to managers for understanding the relationship between employee expenditures and firm performance. This paper develops a strategy to examine aspects of the intangible human capital investment embedded in a firm’s personnel expense. Closed for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 03 Nov 2020
      • Working Paper Summaries

      An Executive Order Worth $100 Billion: The Impact of an Immigration Ban’s Announcement on Fortune 500 Firms’ Valuation

      by Dany Bahar, Prithwiraj Choudhury, and Britta Glennon

      President Trump’s executive order restricting entry of temporary foreign workers to the United States negatively affected the valuation of 471 publicly traded Fortune 500 firms by an estimated $100 billion. Closed for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 20 Oct 2020
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Flight to Safety: How Economic Downturns Affect Talent Flows to Startups

      by Shai Benjamin Bernstein, Richard Townsend, and Ting Xu

      The COVID-19 crisis makes it more difficult for small, young firms to attract talent as higher-quality candidates turn to more mature firms. Such “flight to safety” leads to a deterioration in the quality of human capital available for startups.

      • 15 Oct 2020
      • Research & Ideas

      IT Job Wages Are No Longer 'Exceptional'

      by Rachel Layne

      Wage growth in IT jobs has moderated following the dot-com boom, according to new research by Ruiqing Sam Cao and Shane Greenstein. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 14 Sep 2020
      • Research & Ideas

      You're Right! You Are Working Longer and Attending More Meetings

      by Danielle Kost

      A study of 3 million people confirms what many work-from-home employees already know: We're swamped. Research by Raffaella Sadun, Jeffrey Polzer, and colleagues. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 14 Sep 2020
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Digital Labor Market Inequality and the Decline of IT Exceptionalism

      by Ruiqing Cao and Shane Greenstein

      The experience in five cities accounts for almost all the wage inequality in IT wages in the US between 2000 and 2018. Overall that brought IT wages closer to STEM wages.

      • 24 Aug 2020
      • Research & Ideas

      How Much Will Remote Work Continue After the Pandemic?

      by Kristen Senz

      A new survey suggests that at least 16 percent of employees will remain at-home workers long after COVID-19 recedes, report researchers Christopher Stanton, Zoe Cullen, and Michael Luca. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 29 Jul 2020
      • Working Paper Summaries

      What Jobs Are Being Done at Home During the COVID-19 Crisis? Evidence from Firm-Level Surveys

      by Alexander Bartik, Zoë Cullen, Edward L. Glaeser, Michael Luca, and Christopher Stanton

      At least 16 percent of American workers will switch from office-based settings to working at home at least two days per week after COVID-19 subsides. This has significant implications for companies, employees, and policymakers alike.

      • 07 Jul 2020
      • Working Paper Summaries

      COVID-19 and the Workplace: Implications, Issues, and Insights for Future Research and Action

      by Ashley Whillans and 28 coauthors

      Assembling a large, diverse team of researchers to make sense of COVID-19’s impact on issues of work and organizational psychology, this project explores changes that are unfolding for practitioners and human resources professionals.

      • 12 Jun 2020
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Corporate Resilience and Response During COVID-19

      by Alex Cheema-Fox, Bridget LaPerla, George Serafeim, and Hui (Stacie) Wang

      Investors look for evidence during a market crisis that a company is resilient. This study includes findings that challenge the notion that companies need to adopt practices that hurt their employees because investors want them to do so.

      • 03 Apr 2020
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Working (From Home) During a Crisis: Online Social Contributions by Workers During the Coronavirus Shock

      by Prithwiraj Choudhury, Wesley W. Koo, and Xina Li

      This study shows that people working from home (WFH) make more online contributions to socially helpful topics, yet face higher psychic costs and anxiety about time constraints. Managers might consider giving WFH workers more temporal flexibility to deal with time constraints during this crisis.

      • 30 Mar 2020
      • Research & Ideas

      Readers Ask: I Need Tips for Working at Home

      by Kristen Senz

      Working at home brings with it confusing new rules of conduct. Remote work expert Prithwiraj Choudhury answers questions from our readers. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 10 Mar 2020
      • Research & Ideas

      The Little Understood Problem Confronting Diverse Workplaces

      by Julia Hanna

      Knitting together a diverse workforce into a common fabric is a difficult challenge for managers—and even more difficult for the workers themselves, say Lakshmi Ramarajan and Erin Reid. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 25 Feb 2020
      • Research & Ideas

      For Migrant Workers, Homesickness Can Reduce Productivity

      by Kristen Senz

      Workers in the global economy increasingly perform their jobs far away from home. It turns out, says Prithwiraj Choudhury, that homesickness is a significant barrier to their productivity. Here's what employers can do. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 17 Feb 2020
      • Working Paper Summaries

      The Impact of Technology and Trade on Migration: Evidence from the US

      by Marius Faber, Andres Sarto, and Marco Tabellini

      Labor mobility can re-equilibrate local labor markets after an economic shock. Both robot adoption and Chinese import competition between 1990 and 2015 caused large declines in manufacturing employment across US local labor markets (commuting zones, CZs). However, only robots were associated with a decline in CZ population, which resulted from reduced in-migration rather than by increased out-migration.

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