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, selective survey of the literature. Four fundamental questions are explored: how are unemployment, job vacancies, and employment …
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We model the coordination of specialised tasks inside an organisation as "attribute matching". Using this method, we … our framework, organisational forms affect the information structure of an organisation and thus the way to coordinate … changes. Compared to the U-form, the M-form organisation achieves better coordination but suffers from fewer economies of …
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We survey the micro and macro literature on the impact of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) on productivity. The “Solow Paradox” of the absence of an impact of ICT on productivity no longer holds, if it ever did. Both growth accounting and econometric evidence suggest an...
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to job queues. Using U.K. data and correcting for temporal aggregation bias, estimates of the random matching function … vacancies, these workers wait for the arrival of new job vacancies. The results have important policy implications, particularly …
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This paper is about the labour market consequences of creative destruction with on-the-job search. We consider a … allowing on-the-job search. We obtain that the elasticity of unemployment with respect to growth shrinks from 1.63 to 0 … flow of job-to-job transitions. These effects persist even if employed job seekers are significantly less efficient in the …
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We use the length of employment contracts to estimate CEO turnover probability and its effects on risk-taking. Protection against dismissal should encourage CEOs to pursue riskier projects. Indeed, we show that firms with lower CEO turnover probability exhibit higher return volatility,...
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probability of within-workplace job cuts and the incidence of job security guarantees. As theory predicts, both are more prevalent …
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low-to-medium density. A union presence increases both job reductions and job security guarantees to employees, and high …
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We examine how information technology (IT) contributes to organizational change, labor demand, and improved productivity in the public sector using a new panel data set of police departments covering 1987-2003. While IT adoption is associated with increased administrative and organizational...
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We test the hypothesis that information and communication technologies (ICT) “polarize” labor markets, by increasing demand for the highly educated at the expense of the middle educated, with little effect on low-educated workers. Using data on the US, Japan, and nine European countries from...
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