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How does innovation affect worker well-being?
Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald; Barth, Erling - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
We explore the effects of management innovations on worker well-being using private sector linked employer-employee data for Britain. We find management innovations are associated with lower worker well-being and lower job satisfaction, an effect which becomes more pronounced when we account for...
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Quantifying spillovers in open source content production: evidence from Wikipedia
Aaltonen, Aleksi Ville; Seiler, Stephan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
Using detailed edit-level data over eight years across a large number of articles on Wikipedia, we find evidence for a positive spillover effect in editing activity. Cumulative past contributions, embodied by the current article length, lead to significantly more editing activity, while...
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Rise of the machines: the effects of labor-saving innovations on jobs and wages
Feng, Andy; Graetz, Georg - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015
How do firms respond to technological advances that facilitate the automation of tasks? Which tasks will they automate, and what types of worker will be replaced as a result? We present a model that distinguishes between a task's engineering complexity and its training requirements. When two...
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Does high involvement management lead to higher pay?
Böckerman, Petri; Bryson, Alex; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
Using nationally representative survey data for Finnish employees linked to register data on their wages and work histories we find wage effects of high involvement management (HIM) practices are generally positive and significant. However, employees with better wage and work histories are more...
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Protection and international sourcing
Ornelas, Emanuel; Turner, John L. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
We study the impact of import protection on relationship-specific investments, organizational choice and welfare. We show that a tariff on intermediate inputs can improve social welfare through mitigating hold-up problems. It does so if it discriminates in favor of the investing party, thereby...
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From sectoral to functional urban specialisation
Duranton, Gilles; Puga, Diego - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001
. Sharing of business services by headquarters and of sector-specific intermediates by production plants within a city reduces … structure, from a configuration where cities specialise by sector and host integrated headquarters and production plants, to a … large cities and production plants from each sector clustered in smaller separate cities. …
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Productivity differences in the airline industry: partial deregulation versus short-run protection
Marin, Pedro L. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1995
The paper specifies and estimates a production function for the airline industry, identifying firms' network …
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What do internal capital markets do?: redistribution vs. incentives
Gautier, Axel; Heider, Florian - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001
resources across a conglomerates divisions between successive production periods. The need for redistribution arises from the … fact that resources may sometimes be produced by divisions which happen to be succesful in an earlier production stage but … which do not have the best investment opportunities in future production stages. In contrast to the existing literature we …
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Information technology, organization, and productivity in the public sector: evidence from police departments
Garicano, Luis; Heaton, Paul - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
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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Measuring organization capital in Japan: an empirical assessment using firm-level data
Miyagawa, Tsutomu; Kim, YoungGak - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
Globalization and the ICT revolution of the 1990s have forced many firms to reorganize in order to survive in a more competitive market. There are several approaches that can be used to assess the measurement of organization capital since it is unobservable. Using an optimizing firm model and...
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