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Flexible Wages Systems and the Structure of Wages: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data
Bauer, Thomas; Bender, Stefan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
A growing theoretical and empirical literature is concerned with the effects of flexible workplace systems or High Performance Work Organizations (HPWOs) on wages. Existing theoretical literature suggests that these forms of organization should lead to higher inequality across firms, increased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504382
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Multitasking and Wages
Görlich, Dennis; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
This paper sheds light on how changes in the organization of work can help to understand increasing wage inequality. We present a theoretical model in which workers with a wider span of competence (higher level of multitasking) earn a wage premium. Since abilities and opportunities to expand the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084040
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The Anatomy of French Production Hierarchies
Caliendo, Lorenzo; Monte, Ferdinando; Rossi-Hansberg, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
We use a comprehensive dataset of French manufacturing firms to study their internal organization. We first divide the employees of each firm into `layers' using occupational categories. Layers are hierarchical in that the typical worker in a higher layer earns more, and the typical firm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084412
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Green innovations and organisational change: making better use of environmental technology
Hottenrott, Hanna; Rexhäuser, Sascha; Veugelers, Reinhilde - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
The literature on within-firm organizational change and productivity suggests that firms can make more efficient use of … case of greenhouse gas (GHG) abatement technologies imposed by public authority as to reduce social costs of climate change … aspect. Using German firm-level data, we find that organizational change increases the returns to the use of CO2 reducing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084545
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Technological Change, Organizational Change, and Job Turnover
Bauer, Thomas; Bender, Stefan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
technological changes on gross job and worker flows. The empirical results indicate that organizational change is skill …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792471
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The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition
Guadalupe, Maria; Wulf, Julie - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
This paper establishes a causal effect of product market competition on various characteristics of organizational design. Using a unique panel dataset on firm hierarchies of large U.S. firms (1986-1999) and a quasi-natural experiment (trade liberalization), we find that increasing competition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792092
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Inequality of Earnings
Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
-supply framework of analysis and what is left unexplained. Finally, it considers the implications of organizational change as a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792213