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Centralized Bargaining, Multi-Tasking, and Work Incentives

Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

The paper examines the implications of an important aspect of the ongoing reorganization of work – the move from occupational specialization towards multi-tasking – for centralized wage bargaining. The analysis shows how, on account of this reorganization, centralized bargaining becomes...

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The Division of Labour Within Firms

Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

The paper examines the determinants of the division of labour within firms. It provides an explanation of the pervasive change in work organization away from the traditional functional departments and towards multi-tasking and job rotation. Whereas the existing literature on the division of...

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Reorganization of Firms and Labour Market Inequality

Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

This paper explores the implications of the ongoing reorganization of firms for inequality in the labour market. We show how recent technological advances in physical and human capital can lead to the breakdown of occupational barriers, creating demands for new combinations of skills, and...

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The Economics of Human Cloning

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

In this Paper, we analyse the extent to which market forces create an incentive for cloning human beings. We show that a market for cloning arises if a large enough fraction of the clone's income can be appropriated by its model. Only people with the highest ability are cloned, while people at...

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The Dynamics of Exclusion and Fiscal Conservatism

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

This paper studies the impact of income inequality on fiscal conservatism when an increase in inequality affects the bottom portion of income distribution. It is argued that, contrary to what is generally assumed in the economic literature, inequality will then be associated with less, rather...

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The Evolution of Modern Educational Systems: Technical Vs. General Education, Distributional Conflict and Growth

Bertocchi, Graziella; Spagat, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

We study the evolution of an educational system which is founded on a hierarchical differentiation between technical and general education, with a superior social status attached to general. The resulting dynamic political equilibrium is best summarized by the ratio of vocational to general...

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Restructuring Production and Work

Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

The paper analyses the contemporary organizational restructuring of production and work and derives some salient implications for the labour market. The analysis focuses on the switch from occupational specialization at 'Tayloristic' organizations to multi-tasking at 'holistic' organizations....

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Immigration, Offshoring and American Jobs

Ottaviano, Gianmarco; Peri, Giovanni; Wright, Greg C. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

How many "American jobs" have U.S.-born workers lost due to immigration and offshoring? Or, alternatively, is it possible that immigration and offshoring, by promoting cost-savings and enhanced efficiency in firms, have spurred the creation of jobs for U.S. natives? We consider a multi-sector...

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Trade and Tasks: An Exploration over Three Decades in Germany

Becker, Sascha O.; Muendler, Marc-Andreas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

This paper combines representative worker-level data that cover time-varying job-level task characteristics of an economy over a long time span with sector-level bilateral trade data. We carefully create longitudinally consistent workplace characteristics from the German Qualification and Career...

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Information Technology and the Knowledge Elites

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

proportion of knowledge workers in employment, depending on the response of the overall demand for knowledge to the implied … reduction in the cost of acquiring it. In my model, knowledge (in a broad sense) is an input into the production function of … knowledge input in the production of human capital. An improvement in IT is modelled as an increase in the number of people who …

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