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The division of labour, worker organisation, and technological change

Borghans, Lex (contributor); Weel, Bas ter (contributor) - 2005

The model developed in this paper explains differences in the division of labour across firms as a result of computer technology adoption. We find that changes in the division of labour can result both from reduced production time and from improved communication possibilities. The first shifts...

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The division of labor and the market for organizations

Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - 2000

The paper examines the determinants of the division of labor within firms. It provides an explanation of the pervasive observed changes in work organization away from the traditional functional departments and towards multi-tasking and job rotation. Whereas the existing literature on the...

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The global distribution of routine and non-routine work

Lewandowski, Piotr; Park, Albert; Schotte, Simone - 2020

Studies of the effects of technology and globalization on employment and inequality commonly assume that occupations are identical around the world in the job tasks they require. To relax this assumption, we develop a regression-based methodology to predict the country-specific routine task...

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Who lives in the c-suite? : organizational structure and the division of labor in top management

Guadalupe, Maria; Li, Hongyi; Wulf, Julie M. - 2012

team composition, firm diversification, and IT investments - which arguably alter returns to exploiting synergies through … show that general manager pay decreases as functional managers join the executive team suggesting a shift in activities … design ; functions ; centralization ; M-form ; hierarchy ; top management team ; information technology ; activities …

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Division of labour and directed production

Ratto, Marisa (contributor); Schnedler, Wendelin (contributor) - 2005

We examine a situation where efforts on different tasks positively affect production but are not separately verifiable and where the manager (principal) and the worker (agent) have different ideas about how production should be carried out: agents prefer a less efficient way of production. We...

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Culture of trust and division of labor

Meier, Stephan; Stephenson, Matthew - 2015

Firms exhibit heterogeneity in size, productivity, and internal structure, and this is true even within the same industry. It has been thought since the time of Adam Smith that a firm's internal structure affects its productivity through the channel of gains from specialization. Our paper...

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On the sorting of physicians across medical occupations

Courty, Pascal (contributor); Marschke, Gerald (contributor) - 2008

We model the sorting of medical students across medical occupations and identify a mechanism that explains the possibility of differential productivity across occupations. The model combines moral hazard and matching of physicians and occupations with pre-matching investments. In equilibrium...

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The origins of the division of labor in pre-modern times

Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio; Özak, Ömer - 2018

This research explores the historical roots of the division of labor in pre-modern societies. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that intra-ethnic diversity had a positive effect on the division of labor across ethnicities in the pre-modern era. Exploiting a variety of...

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Rethinking specialisation and the sexual division of labour in the 21st Century

Siminski, Peter; Yetsenga, Rhiannon - 2020

This paper aims to shed new light on explanations for the sexual division of labour, within a broader examination of within-household specialisation. We propose a set of indices which we believe are the first direct within-couple measures of specialisation. We use these to present a rich...

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Marriage versus cohabitation : how specialization and time use differ by relationship type

Stratton, Leslie S. - 2023

Relationships have changed dramatically in the last fifty years. Fewer couples are marrying, more are cohabiting. Reasons for this shift abound, but the shift may have consequences of its own. A number of models predict that those cohabiting will specialize less than those marrying. Panel data...

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