The paper examines the determinants of the division of labor within firms. It provides an explanation of the pervasive …

features. First, effective labor is modeled as the product of a quantity measure - number of employees with a given level of … education - and a quality index, depending on, i.a., demographic characteristics and fields-of-study. Second, low-skilled labor … for four categories of labor, two types of capital and intermediate goods. The empirical application covers 24 industries …

the effect of employment protection rules on labor productivity using micro data on Swedish firms. A reform of the … the seniority rules. I exploit the reform as a natural experiment. My results indicate that increased labor market … exibility increases labor productivity. The increase is not explained by capital intensity or the educational level of workers. …

with that in Swedish firms. U.S. multinationals appear to have allocated some of their more labor intensive operations … selling in world markets to affiliates in developing countries, reducing the labor intensity in their home production. Swedish …

theoretical findings for Egypt using the 1998 Labor Market Survey. The empirical evidence supports the predictions of our …