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Organizational Change in French Manufacturing : What Do We Learn From Firm Representatives and From Their Employees?

Greenan, Nathalie - 1999

In this paper, we use a French matched employer-employee survey, the COI survey, conducted in 1997, to describe the general features of organizational change in manufacturing firms with more than 50 employees. In a first section, we explore the methodological issues associated with the building...

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Using Employee Level Data in a Firm Level Econometric Study

Mairesse, Jacques - 1999

In this paper, we make the general point that econometric studies of the firm can be effectively and substantially enriched by using information collected from employees, even if only a few of them are surveyed per firm. Though variables measured on the basis of the answers of very few employees...

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Outsourcing, Inequality and Aggregate Output

Bilal, Adrien; Lhuillier, Hugo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Outsourced workers experience large wage declines, yet domestic outsourcing may raise aggregate productivity. To study this equity-efficiency trade-off, we contribute a framework in which firms either hire many imperfectly substitutable worker types in-house by posting wages along a job ladder,...

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Capital Structure and a Firm’s Workforce

Matsa, David A. - 2018

firm's workforce on its capital structure. For instance, high leverage often makes managing labor more difficult by … undermining employees' job security and increasing the need for costly workforce reductions. But firms can also use leverage to … needs and management of their workforce when making financing decisions …

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Wages, Hires, and Labor Market Concentration

Marinescu, Ioana - 2020

How does employer market power affect workers? We compute the concentration of new hires by occupation and commuting zone in France using linked employer-employee data. Using instrumental variables with worker and firm fixed effects, we find that a 10% increase in labor market concentration...

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Subjective Evaluation of Performance Through Individual Evaluation Interview : Empirical evidence from France

Diaye, Marc-Arthur - 2007

Individual evaluation interviews have become a widespread practice. 52% of employees in French manufacturing firms over 50 employees declared an annual individual evaluation interview in 1997. However whereas the problem of constructing an optimal contract with subjective evaluation (which is...

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The Anatomy of French Production Hierarchies

Caliendo, Lorenzo - 2012

We use a comprehensive dataset of French manufacturing firms to study their internal organization. We first divide the employees of each firm into `layers' using occupational categories. Layers are hierarchical in that the typical worker in a higher layer earns more, and the typical firm...

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Training and the private sector : international comparisons

Lynch, Lisa M. (ed.) - 1994

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