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The Value of Reliable Statistics

Cornell Senior Economics Advisor, Erica L. Groshen, the former commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, with coauthors from Stanford and Georgetown, posts a new working paper on the importance of federal statistics for economic policy.
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The Value of Reliable Statistics

The implications of pay range transparency on job application preferences and negotiations

Alice Lee, assistant professor of organizational behavior, Tae-Youn Park, director of research at Cornell’s Institute for Compensation Studies, and Sungyong Chang, assistant professor of management and organizations at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management published Feb. 16 in the Journal of Applied Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0001360
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The implications of pay range transparency on job application preferences and negotiations

Cornell research: small firms may have good reasons to offer better wages

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Smaller firms may offer better pay packages to new employees... under some conditions.
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Cornell research: small firms may have good reasons to offer better wages

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