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Martin Evans has examined the organisation, targeting and implementation ofwelfare to work programmes in five countries …
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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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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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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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An organization will often use a specialized technical language that is un-derstood by its members but not by others … communication and encouraging communication with other organi-zations. "Dialects"are suboptimal: two organizations will either share … thesame language or develop two entirely distinct set of technical words. Thisendogenous discontinuity in communication …
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acquire knowledge lead to opposite implicationson wage inequality and organization than reductions in communication costs.[...] …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 …
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The knowledge economy is nothing new. As Chandler’s (1977) classic study documents,improvements in communication … 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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How does the formation of cross-country teams affect the organization of workand the structure of wages? To study this …
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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 …’lower level agents. Conversely, technologies reducing communication costs substitute agent’sknowledge for directions from their …
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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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