R Laschever - Unpublished manuscript, Northwestern University, 2005 - econ.vt.edu
Abstract This paper examines the effect of social networks on the post'war employment of
American WWI veterans. The groups I examine were all formed due to a quasi'random
event, the WWI draft. Service in the same military unit defines an individualrs reference ...
R Laschever - 2009 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: This paper examines how involuntarily-formed social networks affect individual
labor market outcomes. Using a new dataset of WWI draftees linked to the 1930 census, I
identify the effect of a military company's postwar employment on a veteran's employment. ...
K Brown… - Urbana, 2011 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: This paper examines the effect of peers on an individual's likelihood of retirement
using data from the Los Angeles Unified School District. We show that two large pension
reforms differentially impacted the financial incentives for retirement within and across ...
R Laschever - 2010 - research.upjohn.org
Executive compensation has risen considerably since the 1980s and continues to attract
attention from shareholders, policy makers, and the public at large. This research seeks to
understand the role that comparisons and peer benchmarking play in the continued ...
R Laschever - 2010 - digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu
Abstract This paper seeks to understand the role that peer comparisons play in the
determination of executive compensation. I exploit a recent change in the Securities and
Exchange Commission's regulations that requires firms to disclose the peer companies ...
[CITATION] 2009 Dissertation Award
RA Laschever - 2007 - gradworks.umi.com
UMI, ProQuest ® Dissertations & Theses. The world's most comprehensive collection
of dissertations and theses. Learn more... ProQuest, Social interactions and labor
market outcomes of war veterans. by Laschever, Ron A., Ph ...
K Brown… - 2011 - ler.illinois.edu
3Social norms have been widely suggested as a potential contributing cause of retirement
age spikes. For example, see Asch et al.(2005) and Mastrobuoni (2009). However, some
structural work has shown that the “unexplained” portion of the retirement age spikes, after ...
R Laschever - 2008 - research.upjohn.org
Abstract Social networks play an important role in the labor market. Various surveys
document that from 30 to 60 percent of jobs are found through friends or relatives. To better
understand how networks operate in the labor market, I examine how networks that were ...
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