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Does Linking Worker Pay to Firm Performance Help the Best Firms Do Even Better?

Kruse, Douglas L. - 2015

This paper analyzes the linkages among group incentive methods of compensation, labor practices, worker assessments of workplace culture, turnover, and firm performance in a non-representative sample of companies: firms that applied to the "100 Best Companies to Work For in America" competition...

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Employee Response to Compulsory Short-Time Work

Fuchs, Victor R.; Jacobsen, Joyce P. - 2021

This paper reports the results of a survey of over 1500 employees who faced compulsory reductions of 10 percent in hours of work and earnings during the second half of 1985. The workers were asked how they used the free time and how they viewed the program, and their answers were analyzed in...

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What Makes Them Tick? Employee Motives and Firm Innovation

Sauermann, Henry - 2015

We examine the impact of individual-level motives upon innovative effort and performance in firms. Drawing from economics and social psychology, we develop a model of the impact of individuals' motives and incentives upon their innovative effort and performance. Using data on over 11,000...

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Expectations, Wage Hikes, and Worker Voice : Evidence from a Field Experiment

Adhvaryu, Achyuta - 2019

Hirschman's (1970) seminal thesis that enabling worker “voice” prevents exit from the employment relationship has played a foundational role in labor economics. We provide the first experimental test of this hypothesis in a real-world setting via a randomized controlled trial in Indian...

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Strikes, Scabs and Tread Separations : Labor Strife and the Production of Defective Bridgestone/Firestone Tires

Krueger, Alan B.; Mas, Alexandre - 2022

This paper provides a case study of the effect of labor relations on product quality. We consider whether a long, contentious strike and the hiring of permanent replacement workers by Bridgestone/Firestone in the mid-1990s contributed to the production of an excess number of defective tires....

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Computerizing Industries and Routinizing Jobs : Explaining Trends in Aggregate Productivity

Aum, Sangmin - 2018

Aggregate productivity growth in the U.S. has slowed down since the 2000s. We quantify the importance of differential productivity growth across occupations and across industries, and the rise of computers since the 1980s, for the productivity slowdown. Complementarity across occupations and...

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Robots, Trade, and Luddism : A Sufficient Statistic Approach to Optimal Technology Regulation

Costinot, Arnaud - 2018

on robots and trade, the magnitude of these taxes may decrease as the process of automation and globalization deepens and …

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Automation and New Tasks : How Technology Displaces and Reinstates Labor

Acemoglu, Daron - 2019

We present a framework for understanding the effects of automation and other types of technological changes on labor … allocation of tasks to capital and labor—the task content of production. Automation, which enables capital to replace labor in … a result, automation always reduces the labor share in value added and may reduce labor demand even as it raises …

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Computerization and Immigration : Theory and Evidence from the United States

Basso, Gaetano - 2017

Recent technological changes have been characterized as “routine-substituting,” reducing demand for routine tasks but increasing it for analytical and service tasks. Little is known about how these changes have impacted immigration, or task specialization between immigrants and natives. In...

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The Race between Machine and Man : Implications of Technology for Growth, Factor Shares and Employment

Acemoglu, Daron - 2016

created. In a static version where capital is fixed and technology is exogenous, automation reduces employment and the labor … capital accumulation and the direction of research towards automation and the creation of new tasks. If the long-run rental … rate of capital relative to the wage is sufficiently low, the long-run equilibrium involves automation of all tasks …

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