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Earnings-Tenure Profiles: Tests of Agency and Human Capital Theories Using Individual Performance Data

Kato, Takao; Dong, Xiao-Yuan; Jones, Derek C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

By using a large new panel of individual data, including objective measures of worker performance, we provide some of the most rigorous evidence to date on several related dimensions of enduring debates surrounding upward-sloping earnings-tenure profiles. Most importantly we provide the first...

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Discrete innovation, continuous improvement, and competitive pressure

Ghosh, Arghya; Kato, Takao; Morita, Hodaka - 2007

Does competitive pressure foster innovation? In addressing this important question, prior studies ignored a distinction … between discrete innovation aiming at entirely new technology and continuous improvement consisting of numerous incremental … innovation will lead to a much richer understanding of the interplay between firms' incentives to innovate and competitive …

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Working from Home Around the World

Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; … - 2022

innovation. …

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High performance work practices and employee voice: A comparison of Japanese and Korean workers

Bae, Kiu-sik; Chuma, Hiroyuki; Kato, Takao; Kim, Dong-bae; … - 2010

Using a unique new cross-national survey of Japanese and Korean workers, we report the first systematic evidence on the effects on employee voice of High Performance Work Practices (HPWPs) from the two economies which are noted for the wide use of HPWPs. We find for both nations that: (i)...

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Remote Work across Jobs, Companies, and Space

Hansen, Stephen; Lambert, Peter John; Bloom, Nicholas; … - 2023

The pandemic catalyzed an enduring shift to remote work. To measure and characterize this shift, we examine more than 250 million job vacancy postings across five English-speaking countries. Our measurements rely on a state-of-the-art languageprocessing framework that we fit, test, and refine...

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The Evolution of Work from Home

Barrero, José María; Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J. - 2023

discuss some implications of the big shift for pay, productivity, and the pace of innovation. Over the next five years, U …

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The Impact of Teams on Output, Quality and Downtime: An Empirical Analysis Using Individual Panel Data

Kato, Takao; Jones, Derek C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

To investigate the size and the timing of the direct impact of participatory arrangements on business performance, we assemble and analyze extraordinary daily data - for rejection, production and downtime rates for all operators in a single plant during a 35 month period, more than 77,000...

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High Performance Work Practices and Employee Voice: A Comparison of Japanese and Korean Workers

Bae, Kiu-Sik; Chuma, Hiroyuki; Kato, Takao; Kim, Dong-Bae; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

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Executive compensation, firm performance, and corporate governance in China: evidence from firms listed in the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges

Kato, Takao; Long, Cheryl - 2005

This paper provides evidence on how executive compensation relates to firm performance in listed firms in China. Using comprehensive financial and accounting data on China's listed firms from 1998 to 2002, augmented by unique data on executive compensation and ownership structure, we find for...

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Executive compensation, firm performance, and chaebols in Korea: evidence from new panel data

Kato, Takao; Kim, Woochan; Lee, Ju Ho - 2005

This paper provides the first rigorous econometric estimates on the pay-performance relations for executives of Korean firms with and without Chaebol affiliation. To do so, we have assembled for the first time panel data (that provide information not only on executive compensation and firm...

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