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Who Lives in the C-Suite? Organizational Structure and the Division of Labor in Top Management
Guadalupe, Maria; Li, Hongyi; Wulf, Julie M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
team composition, firm diversification, and IT investments – which arguably alter returns to exploiting synergies through …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884351
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Stages of Diversification in a Neoclassical World
Batista, Catia; Potin, Jacques - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Recent research has documented a U-shaped industrial concentration curve over an economy's development path. How far can neoclassical trade theory take us in explaining this pattern? We estimate the production side of the Heckscher-Ohlin model using industry data on 44 developed and developing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959660
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Pulls, Pushes and Entitlement Failures in Labor Markets: Does the State of Development Matter?
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Dimova, Ralitza; Nugent, Jeffrey B. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
This study adapts a relatively novel model of off-farm labor supply to the changing conditions of Bulgaria during the 1990s. The model’s parameters are estimated separately for each of the three different waves of the Bulgarian Integrated Household Survey, each reflecting remarkably different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233812
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Sectoral Shifts, Diversification and Regional Unemployment: Evidence from Local Labour Systems in Italy
Basile, Roberto; Girardi, Alessandro; Mantuano, Marianna; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Using Local Labour Systems (LLSs) data, this work aims at assessing the effects of sectoral shifts and industry specialization patterns on regional unemployment in Italy over the years 2004-2008, when huge worker reallocation caused by changes in the international division of labour occurred....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009395444
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Outsourcing, Occupational Restructuring, and Employee Well-Being: Is There a Silver Lining?
Böckerman, Petri; Maliranta, Mika - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper examines the relationship between outsourcing and various aspects of employee well-being by devoting special … employees' job satisfaction is reduced. However, the relationship between outsourcing and employee well-being is not entirely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884090
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On the Organizational Structure of Multinational Firms: Which Sourcing Mode for Which Input?
Suedekum, Jens; Nowak, Verena; Schwarz, Christian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
organizational decision is driven by two countervailing effects: the ownership rights effect favors outsourcing, while the "indirect … outsourcing of the "less important" supplier is chosen in equilibrium. We also consider an open economy setup where the producer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279357
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Equilibrium Unemployment with Outsourcing and Wage Solidarity Under Labour Market Imperfections
Koskela, Erkki; Stenbacka, Rune - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
We evaluate the effects of outsourcing and wage solidarity on wage formation and equilibrium unemployment in a … heterogeneous labour market, where wages are determined by a monopoly labour union. We find that outsourcing promotes the wage … magnify, and not dampen, this tendency. Further, higher outsourcing will increase equilibrium unemployment among the high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233784
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Construction Contracts (or: "How to Get the Right Building at the Right Price?")
Chakravarty, Surajeet; MacLeod, W. Bentley - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Most contracts that individuals enter into are not written from scratch; rather, they depend upon forms and terms that have been successful in the past. In this paper, we study the structure of form construction contracts published by the American Institute of Architects (AIA). We show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233914
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Global Sourcing of Complex Production Processes
Schwarz, Christian; Suedekum, Jens - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
We develop a theory of a firm in an environment with incomplete contracts. The firm’s headquarter decides on the complexity, the organization, and the global scale of its production process. Specifically, it decides: i) on the mass of symmetric intermediate inputs that are part of the value...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008693834
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Analysis of Labor Tax Progression under Heterogeneous Domestic Labor Markets and Flexible Outsourcing
Koskela, Erkki - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
-skilled labor and perfect competition in high-skilled labor in the presence of outsourcing? A higher degree of tax progression by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008693839