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Return of the Solow Paradox? IT, Productivity, and Employment in U.S. Manufacturing
Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David; Dorn, David; Hanson, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
An increasingly influential "technological-discontinuity" paradigm suggests that IT-induced technological changes are rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010961044
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The Firm as a Pool of Factor Complementarities
Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
This paper presents a new approach to the theory of the firm by identifying factor complementarities as central to the … determination of the firm’s boundaries. The factor complementarities may take a variety of forms: technological and informational … transactions costs. In so doing, we must abandon the standard dichotomy between the determinants of plant size and firm size. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763561
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On the "Adverse Selection" of Organizations
Kräkel, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
implications of firm size and competition on the foundation of organizations are also addressed. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822215
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Firm Size, Economic Situation and Influence Activities
Kräkel, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
This paper discusses the optimal firm size in the presence of influence activities, and the level of individual rent …-seeking dependent on the economic situation of the firm. Since firm size has a discouraging effect on the level of individual rent … employer chooses an inefficiently small or large firm size. In the given setting, a bad economic situation leads to both a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822433
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Convergence to the Managerial Frontier
Maloney, William F.; Sarrias, Mauricio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
of convergence change across the process. These variables lose their explanatory power as firm and average country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010790511
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Does Management Matter in Schools?
Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011078403
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Five Open Questions About Prediction Markets
Wolfers, Justin; Zitzewitz, Eric - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Interest in prediction markets has increased in the last decade, driven in part by the hope that these markets will prove to be valuable tools in forecasting, decision-making and risk management - in both the public and private sectors. This paper outlines five open questions in the literature,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762271
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Who Do Unions Target? Unionization over the Life-Cycle of U.S. Businesses
Dinlersoz, Emin; Greenwood, Jeremy; Hyatt, Henry R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
What type of businesses do unions target for organizing? A dynamic model of the union organizing process is constructed to answer this question. A union monitors establishments in an industry to learn about their productivity and decides which ones to organize and when. An establishment becomes...
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Multinationals and Plant Exit: Evidence from Chile
Alvarez, Roberto; Görg, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
economy? Our results show that foreign plants are more likely to exit the economy, controlling for other firm and industry …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703781
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Earnings-Tenure Profiles: Tests of Agency and Human Capital Theories Using Individual Performance Data
Kato, Takao; Dong, Xiao-Yuan; Jones, Derek C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
By using a large new panel of individual data, including objective measures of worker performance, we provide some of the most rigorous evidence to date on several related dimensions of enduring debates surrounding upward-sloping earnings-tenure profiles. Most importantly we provide the first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822365