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The Return to Knowledge Hierarchies
Garicano, Luis - 2010
Hierarchies allow individuals to leverage their knowledge through others' time. This mechanism increases productivity … and organization of U.S. lawyers and use the equilibrium model of knowledge hierarchies in Garicano and Rossi …, increasing the ratio between the 95th and 50th percentiles from 3.7 to 4.8. We conclude that the impact of hierarchy on …
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Hierarchies, Specialization, and the Utilization of Knowledge : Theory and Evidence from the Legal Services Industry
Garicano, Luis; Hubbard, Thomas N. - 2022
thousands of law offices from the 1992 Census of Services. The driving force in the model is increasing returns in the … utilization of acquired knowledge. We show how the equilibrium assignment of individuals to hierarchical positions varies with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014072174
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The Flattening Firm : Evidence from Panel Data on the Changing Nature of Corporate Hierarchies
Rajan, Raghuram G.; Wulf, Julie - 2021
Using a detailed database of managerial job descriptions, reporting relationships, and compensation structures in over 300 large U.S. firms, we find that firm hierarchies are becoming flatter. The number of positions reporting directly to the CEO has gone up significantly over time while the...
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The Anatomy of French Production Hierarchies
Caliendo, Lorenzo - 2014
We use a comprehensive dataset of French manufacturing firms to study their internal organization. We first divide the employees of each firm into `layers' using occupational categories. Layers are hierarchical in that the typical worker in a higher layer earns more, and the typical firm...
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Earnings Inequality and Coordination Costs : Evidence from U.S. Law Firms
Garicano, Luis - 2009
in inequality. We first show that earnings inequality among lawyers increased substantially between 1977 and 1992, and … partner's skill by about 30% more in 1992 than 1977. We find also that changes in lawyers' hierarchical organization account …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764834
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Storable Votes and Judicial Nominations in the U.S. Senate
Casella, Alessandra - 2014
We model a procedural reform aimed at restoring a proper role for the minority in the confirmation process of judicial nominations in the U.S. Senate. We analyze a proposal that would call for nominations to the same level court to be collected in periodic lists and voted upon individually with...
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Racial bias in bail decisions
Arnold, David; Dobbie, Will; Yang, Crystal - 2017
This paper develops a new test for identifying racial bias in the context of bail decisions – a high-stakes setting with large disparities between white and black defendants. We motivate our analysis using Becker's (1957) model of racial bias, which predicts that rates of pre-trial misconduct...
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Mandatory Retirement for Judges Improved Performance on U.S. State Supreme Courts
Ash, Elliott; MacLeod, W. Bentley - 2022
Anecdotal evidence often points to aging as a cause for reduced work performance. This paper provides empirical evidence on this issue in a context where performance is measurable and there is variation in mandatory retirement policies: U.S. state supreme courts. We find that introducing...
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Organizational Fragmentation and Care Quality in the U.S. Health Care System
Cebul, Randall - 2009
Many goods and services can be readily provided through a series of unconnected transactions, but in health care close coordination over time and within care episodes improves both health outcomes and efficiency. Close coordination is problematic in the US health care system because the...
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Organizational Structure and Pricing : Evidence from a Large U.S. Airline
Hortaçsu, Ali; Natan, Olivia; Parsley, Hayden; … - 2023
Firms facing complex objectives often decompose the problems they face, delegating different parts of the decision to distinct sub-units. Using comprehensive data and internal models from a large U.S. airline, we establish that airline pricing is not well approximated by a model of the firm as a...
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