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Collaborating During Coronavirus : The Impact of COVID-19 on the Nature of Work

DeFilippis, Evan - 2020

We explore the impact of COVID-19 on employee's digital communication patterns through an event study of lockdowns in 16 large metropolitan areas in North America, Europe and the Middle East. Using de- identified, aggregated meeting and email meta-data from 3,143,270 users, we find, compared to...

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The Power of Proximity to Coworkers : Training for Tomorrow or Productivity Today?

Emanuel, Natalia; Harrington, Emma; Pallais, Amanda - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Amidst the rise of remote work, we ask: what are the effects of proximity to coworkers? We find being near coworkers has tradeoffs: proximity increases long-run human capital development at the expense of short-term output. We study software engineers at a Fortune 500 firm, whose main campus has...

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The Donut Effect of Covid-19 on Cities

Ramani, Arjun; Bloom, Nicholas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Using data from the US Postal Service and Zillow, we quantify the effect of Covid-19 on migration patterns and real estate markets within and across US cities. We find two key results. First, within large US cities, households, businesses, and real estate demand have moved from dense central...

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What Does Codetermination Do?

Jäger, Simon; Noy, Shakked; Schoefer, Benjamin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We provide a comprehensive overview of codetermination, i.e., worker representation in firms' governance and management … that existing quasiexperimental estimates suggest that codetermination has zero or very small positive effects on worker … codetermination laws using novel cross-country event studies exploiting a series of codetermination reforms between the 1960s and 2010 …

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What's Driving the New Economy : The Benefits of Workplace Innovation

Black, Sandra E. - 2000

Using a unique nationally representative sample of U.S. establishments surveyed in 1993 and 1996, we examine the relationship between workplace innovations and establishment productivity and wages. We match plant level practices with plant level productivity and wage outcomes and estimate...

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Do "High Performance" Work Practices Improve Establishment-Level Outcomes?

Neumark, David - 1999

Interest in the potential effects of different systems for organizing work and managing employees on the performance of organizations has a long history in the social sciences. The interest in economics, arguably more recent, reflects a general concern about the sources of competitiveness in...

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Can a Work Organization Have an Attitude Problem? The Impact of Workplaces on Employee Attitudes and Economic Outcomes

Bartel, Ann - 2003

Using the employee opinion survey responses from several thousand employees working in 193 branches of a major U.S. bank, we consider whether there is a distinctive workplace component to employee attitudes despite the common set of corporate human resource management practices that cover all...

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Computers, Work Organization, and Wage Outcomes

Cappelli, Peter - 2000

We examine two factors frequently thought to be changing the U.S. workplace, high performance work practices and computer use, and their relationships with pay using a national probability sample of U.S. establishments. The analysis controls for both organizational and individual characteristics...

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How to Compete : The Impact of Workplace Practices and Information Technology on Productivity

Black, Sandra E. - 1997

Using data from a unique nationally representative sample of businesses, the Educational Quality of the Workforce National Employers Survey (EQW-NES), matched with the Bureau of the Census' Longitudinal Research Database (LRD), we examine the impact of workplace practices, information technology...

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International differences in the business practices and productivity of firms

Freeman, Richard B. (ed.); Shaw, Kathryn (contributor) - 2009

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