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Welfare to Work and the Organisation of Opportunity:Lessons From Abroad

Dickson, Jane - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2001

Martin Evans has examined the organisation, targeting and implementation ofwelfare to work programmes in five countries …

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Welfare to work and the organisation of opportunity

Evans, Martin - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2001

Welfare to work policy is central to British reforms of itswelfare state and social security system. We are not alonein our desire to assist unemployed and other claimants tofind and retain work. It is therefore important to be able tolook to other countries and consider lessons that could...

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Organizing for Synergies

Garicano, Luis - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2010

Large companies are usually organized into business units, yet some activitiesare almost always centralized in a company-wide functional unit. We firstshow that organizations endogenously create an incentive conflict between functionalmanagers (who desire excessive standardization) and...

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Specialization, Firms, and Markets: The Division of Labor Within and Between Law Firms

Garicano, Luis; Hubbard, Thomas N. - London School of Economics and Political Science; J. L. …

This paper uses confidential microdata from the Census of Services to examine lawfirms' field boundaries. We find that the share of lawyers working in field-specializedfirms increases as market size increases and lawyers field-specialize, indicating thattransaction costs among lawyers, and not...

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Language and the Theory of the Firm

Crémer, Jacques; Criscuolo, Chiara; Prat, Andrea - Université de Toulouse- Le Mirail; University …; … - 2006

An organization will often use a specialized technical language that is un-derstood by its members but not by others …

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ORGANIZATION AND INEQUALITY IN A KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY

Garicano, Luis; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006

We present an equilibrium theory of the organization of work in an economywhere knowledge is an essential input in … designed to use and communicate their knowledge efficiently. Relativeto autarky, organization leads to larger cross … acquire knowledge lead to opposite implicationson wage inequality and organization than reductions in communication costs.[...] …

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The Knowledge Economy at the turn of the Twentieth Century: the Emergence of Hierarchies

Garicano, Luis; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006

organization of production thereby changingthe demand for skilled and unskilled agents by creating a new class of … theory based on Garicano and Rossi-Hansberg(2005) in which organization is endogenous and depends crucially on the state …

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OFFSHORING IN A KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY

Antràs, Pol; Garicano, Luis; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006

How does the formation of cross-country teams affect the organization of workand the structure of wages? To study this …

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The Distinct Effects of Information Technology and Communication Technology on Firm Organization

Bloom, Nick; Garicano, Luis; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009

Empirical studies on information communication technologies (ICT) typically aggregate the“information” and “communication” components together. We show theoretically and empirically thatthese have very different effects on the empowerment of employees, and by extension on wageinequality....

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Earnings Inequality and Coordination Costs: Evidence from U.S. Law Firms

Garicano, Luis; Hubbard, Thomas N. - London School of Economics and Political Science; … - 2009

U.S. law offices on lawyers'organization and earnings, we study the extent to which the mechanism suggested by Lucas … by about 30% morein 1992 than 1977. We find also that changes in lawyers' hierarchical organization account for about 2 …

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