of work-life balance, #autonomy, #recruitment and reducing turnover, can be very real."

#wfh #4dayWeek #laborEcon

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be done from home.

… informal easing into the weekend, once confined to office norms, can be a morale booster

…In occupations that require continuous hand-offs, staggered schedules can actually improve efficiency by spreading coverage across more hours in the day.

…The benefits, in terms 2/3

https://flipboard.com/@behscientist/behavioral-scientist-v37jdf29z/-/a-F5Z_A1hRTgCGo6hHZYygWA%3Aa%3A3248931295-%2F0 2/2

Should #GenderEquality mean identical outcomes, or identical freedom to follow one’s interests?"

#STEM #LaborEconomics #Psychology

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working with people.

…

Every push to get more women into things-related fields is simultaneously a push to get them out of equally important people-related fields such as healthcare and education - fields that, on average, they tend to prefer. We’re therefore faced with a decision: 2/3

acknowledging that the debt exists, and will grow, is the first step toward addressing it."

#economics

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and developing economies, which are leapfrogging straight to native, widespread #AI adoption, may view things differently. The #cognitiveDebt that we are leaving for younger people in advanced economies may be their opportunity. It will be our duty to pay attention. For now, though, 3/4

cost-cutting, they should consider the longer-term implications. If we transfer all codified knowledge to machines, we will bequeath to future generations a world where it will be ever harder to learn by doing, to achieve mastery, and thus to aspire to creative freedom.

…Emerging markets 2/4

Buyer beware."

#economics

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with the #GreatDepression.

So yes, Goldfarb says, AI has all the hallmarks of a bubble. “There’s no question,” he says. “It hits all the right notes.” Uncertainty? Check. Pure plays? Check. Novice investors? Check. A great narrative? Check. On that 0-to-8 scale, Goldfarb says, it’s an 8. 3/4

hyped with incredibly powerful coordinating narratives. Both were seized on by pure play companies seeking to capitalize on the new game-changing tech, and both were accessible to the retail investors of the day. Both helped inflate a bubble so big that when it burst, in 1929, it left us 2/4

#BehavioralEconomics

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quantitative assessment of subjects’ other-regardingness, e.g., in order to make quantitative predictions, then our result suggest that using monetary incentives is advisable,

… no evidence that using a larger stake size improves the identification of social preferences"

#ExperimentalEcon 4/5

hypothetical stakes. If one is solely interested in having a rough, descriptive measure of social preferences at the aggregate level, or if one wants to identify qualitatively distinct preferences types, then relying on hypothetical stakes might suffice.

… if one is interested in making a 3/5

identification of qualitatively distinct preferences types. They appear to matter, however, for the quantitative identification of the strength and the precision of social preferences.

… the #socialPreferences of the general population are likely overestimated when elicited with 2/5

distribution."

#LaborMarkets

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linked to higher wages at the regional level, whereas the relationship is weakened or disappears altogether for union membership.

… collective wage agreements go along with lower overall wage #inequality, while union membership compresses wage inequality mainly at the lower end of the 3/4

#bargainingPower exerts a significant influence on both individual wage levels and wage inequality in Germany

… both collective wage agreements and union membership… raise wage levels at the national level.… this effect is regionally heterogeneous: Collective wage agreements continue to be 2/4