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What role do hierarchies play with respect to the organization of production and what determines their structure? We develop an equilibrium model of hierarchical organization, then provide empirical evidence using confidential data on thousands of law offices from the 1992 Census of Services....
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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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administrative data from Germany, we analyze 34,000 unexpected worker deaths, which, on average, raise the remaining workers' wages …
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We propose a new measure of allocative efficiency based on unrealized increases in aggregate productivity growth. We show that the difference in the value of the marginal product of an input and its marginal cost at any plant - the plant-input "gap" - is exactly equal to the change in aggregate...
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.6 percent of the continuously employed workforce always worked from home (WFH) and 21.9 percent sometimes or rarely WFH …, totaling 53.5 percent. We compare our results with alternative measurement approaches, with a focus on government surveys, and … rate by up to 28 percentage points. Under our preferred estimates, we find that about half of the U.S. workforce worked …
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senior management, and within the workforce, suggesting that DEI captures additional dimensions missing from traditional …
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logistics services in administrative data using the universe of social security records in Germany. We document a dramatic … growth of domestic outsourcing in Germany since the early 1990s. Event-study analyses show that wages in outsourced jobs fall …
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This paper begins the synthesis of two currently unrelated literatures: the human capital approach to health economics and the economics of cognitive and noncognitive skill formation. A lifecycle investment framework is the foundation for understanding the origins of human inequality and for...
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This paper develops a novel method to identify the causal contribution of managers to team performance. The method requires repeated random assignment of managers to multiple teams and controls for individuals' skills. A good manager is someone who consistently causes their team to produce more...
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"The returns to schooling or the skill premium is a key parameter in various literatures, including globalization and inequality and international migration. This paper explores the skill premium and its link to exports in Latin America, thus linking the skill premium to the emerging literature...
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