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12 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17627
Bring Out the Bulls: Employment Dynamics of Trucking Firms During Highly Expansive Market Conditions
Jason W. Miller, Jonathan Phares, Stephen V. Burks
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16265
State-Level Trucking Employment and the COVID-19 Pandemic in the U.S: Understanding Heterogenous Declines and Rebounds
Jonathan Phares, Jason W. Miller, Stephen V. Burks
revised version published as 'Shedding light on truck driver supply and demand: Heterogeneous state-level recovery of trucking employment following the COVID-19 employment shock' in: Transportation Journal, 2025, 65 (1), e12038
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16184
Job Creation and Job Destruction Dynamics in the U.S. Truck Transportation Industry, 1995-2019
Jason W. Miller, Jonathan Phares, Stephen V. Burks
revised version published as 'Job Gain and Job Loss Dynamics in the Truck Transportation Industry' in: Journal of Business Logistics, 2024, 45 (3), e123912024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11813
Is the U.S. Labor Market for Truck Drivers Broken? An Empirical Analysis Using Nationally Representative Data
Stephen V. Burks, Kristen Monaco
shorter version published as 'Is the U.S. Labor Market for Truck Drivers Broken?' in: Monthly Labor Review, Bureau of Labor Statistics, March, 2019
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10989
The Accident Externality from Trucking
Lucija Muehlenbachs, Stefan Staubli, Ziyan Chu
revised version published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2021, 88, 10363
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10835
Training Contracts, Employee Turnover, and the Returns from Firm-Sponsored General Training
Mitchell Hoffman, Stephen V. Burks
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7382
The Value of Hiring through Referrals
Stephen V. Burks, Bo Cowgill, Mitchell Hoffman, Michael Housman
revised version published as 'The Value of Hiring through Employee Referrals' in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2015, 130(2), 805-839
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6375
What Are Over-the-Road Truckers Paid For? Evidence from an Exogenous Regulatory Change on the Role of Social Comparisons and Work Organization in Wage Determination
Stephen V. Burks, Frederick Guy
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5444
Wage Inequality of U.S. Truck Drivers
Kristen Monaco, Steffen Habermalz
published in: Labour, 2011, 25 (2), 268–285
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3609
Cognitive Skills Explain Economic Preferences, Strategic Behavior, and Job Attachment
Stephen V. Burks, Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Lorenz Götte, Aldo Rustichini
revised version published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 2009, 106 (19), 7745-7750
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2789
Using Behavioral Economic Experiments at a Large Motor Carrier: The Context and Design of the Truckers and Turnover Project
Stephen V. Burks, Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Lorenz Götte, Kristen Monaco, Kay Porter, Aldo Rustichini
published in: Stefan Bender, Julia Lane, Kathryn Shaw, Fredrik Andersson, and Till Von Wachter (eds.), The Analysis of Firms and Employees: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches, NBER and University of Chicago Press, 2008, 45-106
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2576
Stuck in the Slow Lane: Traffic Composition and the Measurement of Labor Productivity in the U.S. Trucking Industry
Kenneth D. Boyer, Stephen V. Burks
published in: Southern Economic Journal, 75 (4), 2009, 1220-1237
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