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. …

The growing number of cross-border acquisitions has in many countries raised concerns about labor demand consequences … affect the volatility of employment, or rather, the wage elasticity of labor demand. We analyze whether the wage elasticity … of labor demand differs between multinational and non-multinational firms as well as between foreign-owned and domestic …

The paper examines the determinants of the division of labor within firms. It provides an explanation of the pervasive … rotation. Whereas the existing literature on the division of labor within firms emphasizes the returns from specialization and … of the versatility of human capital. The paper also explores how the move towards multi-tasking can affect the labor …