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When Knowledge is an Asset : Explaining the Organizational Structure of Large Law Firms

Rebitzer, James B. - 2006

employees …

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Estimating Social Preferences and Gift Exchange at Work

DellaVigna, Stefano - 2016

We design a model-based field experiment to estimate the nature and magnitude of workers' social preferences towards their employers. We hire 446 workers for a one-time task. Within worker, we vary (i) piece rates; (ii) whether the work has payoffs only for the worker, or also for the employer;...

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Employment and Community : Socioeconomic Cooperation and Its Breakdown

Acemoglu, Daron; Wolitzky, Alexander - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We propose a model of the interplay of employment relationships and community-based interactions among workers and managers. Employment relations can be either tough (where workers are monitored intensively and obtain few rents, and managers do not provide informal favors for their workers) or...

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Reducing Moral Hazard in Employment Relationships : Experimental Evidence on Managerial Control and Performance Pay

Jackson, C. Kirabo - 2013

Moral hazard is endemic to employment relationships and firms often use performance pay and managerial control to address this problem. While performance pay has received much empirical attention, managerial control has not. We analyze data from a managerial-control field experiment in which an...

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Do Industrial Relations Affect Plant Performance? : The Case of Commercial Aircraft Manufacturing

Kleiner, Morris M. - 1999

management (TQM) and back again. How and why TQM is adopted may be just as important as whether it is adopted. Finally …, simulations from a counterfactual case show that major industrial relations events like strikes, slowdowns, and the TQM program …

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Fifty Ways to Leave a Child Behind : Idiosyncrasies and Discrepancies in States' Implementation of NCLB

Davidson, Elizabeth - 2013

Yearly Progress. While the federal government's legislation provided a framework for NCLB implementation, it also gave states …% across states. In this paper, we explore how states' NCLB implementation decisions affected their schools' failure rates … characteristics like enrollment size, grade span, and ethnic diversity. Subtle differences in policy implementation led to dramatic …

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The Trillion Dollar Conundrum : Complementarities and Health Information Technology

Dranove, David - 2012

We examine the relationship between the adoption of EMR and hospital operating costs. We first identify a puzzle that has been seen in prior studies: Adoption of EMR is associated with a slight cost increase. We draw on the literature on IT and productivity to demonstrate that the average effect...

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Ambulance Utilization in New York City after the Implementation of the Affordable Care Act

Courtemanche, Charles - 2018

dispatches for more severe injuries, dispatches for minor injuries rose sharply after the implementation of the ACA. By contrast …

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Early Effects of the 2010 Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansions on Federal Disability Program Participation

Chatterji, Pinka - 2016

We test whether early Affordable Care Act (ACA) Medicaid expansions in Connecticut (CT), Minnesota (MN), California (CA), and the District of Columbia (DC) affected SSI applications, SSI and DI awards, and the number of SSI and DI beneficiaries. We use a difference-in-difference (DD) approach,...

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Centralization and Organization Reproduction : Ethnic Innovation in R&D Centers and Satellite Locations

Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study the relationship between firm centralization and organizational reproduction in satellite locations. For decentralized firms, the ethnic compositions of inventors in satellite locations mostly resemble their host cities, with little link to the inventor composition of their parent...

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