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The Allocation of Authority in Organizations : A Field Experiment with Bureaucrats
Bandiera, Oriana - 2020
hierarchy.Institutional subscribers to the NBER working paper series, and residents of developing countries may download this …
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The Economic Consequences of Political Hierarchy : Evidence from Regime Changes in China, Ad1000-2000
Bai, Ying; Jia, Ruixue - 2022
us an opportunity to investigate the political economy of administrative hierarchy. Using prefecture-level panel data and … exploiting regime changes during AD1000-2000, we find that gaining and losing importance in the political hierarchy led to the … rise and decline of different prefectures (measured by population density and urbanization). Moreover, political hierarchy …
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The Economic Consequences of Political Hierarchy : Evidence from Regime Changes in China, AD1000-2000
Jia, Ruixue; Bai, Ying - 2020
’s political hierarchy. While the literature has discussed the roles of administrative centers, several important questions remain … advantages of the provincial capitals did not persist if they lost their political status, (2) political hierarchy shaped …
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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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The Return to Knowledge Hierarchies
Garicano, Luis - 2010
, 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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Products and Productivity
Bernard, Andrew B.; Redding, Stephen J.; Schott, Peter K. - 2021
Firms' decisions about which goods to produce are often made at a more disaggregate level than the data observed by empirical researchers. When products differ according to production technique or the way in which they enter demand, this data aggregation problem introduces a bias into standard...
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Mentoring and Diversity
Athey, Susan; Avery, Christopher; Zemsky, Peter B. - 2021
This paper studies the forces which determine how diversity at a firm evolves over time. We consider a dynamic model o a single firm with two levels of employees, the entry level and the upper level. In each period, the firm selects a subset of the entry-level workers for promotion to the upper...
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The Firm as a Dedicated Hierarchy : A Theory of the Origin and Growth of Firms
Rajan, Raghuram G.; Zingales, Luigi - 2021
A fundamental problem entrepreneurs face in the formative stages of their businesses is how to provide incentives for employees to protect, rather than steal, the source of organizational rents. We study how the entrepreneur's response to this problem will determine the organization's internal...
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Productivity and Organization in Portuguese Firms
Caliendo, Lorenzo; Mion, Giordiano; Opromolla, Luca David; … - 2021
The productivity of firms is, at least partly, determined by a firm’s actions and decisions. One of these decisions involves the organization of production in terms of the number of layers of management the firm decides to employ. Using detailed employer-employee matched data and firm...
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On the Design of Hierarchies : Coordination Versus Specialization
Hart, Oliver; Moore, John - 2021
and others in specialization. Our theory throws light on the nature of hierarchy, the optimal degree of decentralization …
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