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The paper examines the determinants of the division of labor within firms. It provides an explanation of the pervasive observed changes in work organization away from the traditional functional departments and toward multi-tasking and job rotation. Whereas the existing literature on the division...
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The paper examines the determinants of the division of labor within firms. It provides an explanation of the pervasive observed changes in work organization away from the traditional functional departments and towards multi-tasking and job rotation.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005670117
This paper investigates labor productivity growth and the contribution to labor productivity growth in Swedish … productivity growth and the overall contribution to labor productivity growth was considerably higher in technology … adopters of electric motors and ICT, on average would have contributed more to productivity growth in Swedish manufacturing. …
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performed, wages should in principle reflect productivity differences and that it is more difficult to discriminate on the basis … of the gap is due to productivity differences. <p> The main finding is that the productivity differences between sexes in … or less independent of supposed productivity differences between men and women, while under piece-rate work. The wage gap …
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performed, wages should in principle reflect productivity differences and that it is more difficult to discriminate on the basis … of the gap is due to productivity differences. …
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the cost and productivity effects, this specification is integrated into a flexible neoclassical cost function. …
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the cost and productivity effects, this specification is integrated into a flexible neoclassical cost function. The …, these cost savings can be very large. The estimates of productivity effects are also positive, albeit rather small. …
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Sweden has for a long time spent large resources on labor market policies targeted to the unemployed. In the Anglo-Saxon labor economics literature new methods have been developed for the purpose of estimating the effects of such policies. This paper presents the new methods in this field and...
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In Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy Joseph A. Schumpeter concluded thatsocialism would eventually displace capitalism in Western democracies. This would come about as a result of the superior performance of capitalism. We extract six "stylized" propositions that are essential elements of...
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In Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy Joseph A. Schumpeter concluded that socialism would eventually displace capitalism in Western democracies. This would come about as a result of the superior performance of capitalism. We extract six "stylized" propositions that are essential elements of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419535