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Management and Shocks to Worker Productivity
Adhvaryu, Achyuta - 2019
The assignment of workers to tasks is an important feature of the organization of production within firms. We study how task allocation across workers changes in response to productivity shocks. Pairing hourly productivity data from a ready-made garments firm with granular data on exposure to...
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Collaborating During Coronavirus : The Impact of COVID-19 on the Nature of Work
DeFilippis, Evan - 2020
We explore the impact of COVID-19 on employee's digital communication patterns through an event study of lockdowns in 16 large metropolitan areas in North America, Europe and the Middle East. Using de- identified, aggregated meeting and email meta-data from 3,143,270 users, we find, compared to...
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India's De-Industrialization Under British Rule : New Ideas, New Evidence
Clingingsmith, David - 2004
India was a major player in the world export market for textiles in the early 18th century, but by the middle of the 19 … some decline, and India underwent secular de-industrialization as a consequence. While India produced about 25 percent of … organize our thinking about the relative role played by domestic and foreign forces in India's de-industrialization. The …
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How Do Electricity Shortages Affect Industry? Evidence from India
Allcott, Hunt - 2014
hydroelectric power availability. We estimate that India's average reported level of shortages reduces the average plant's revenues …
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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 garment...
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The Light and the Heat : Productivity Co-benefits of Energy-saving Technology
Adhvaryu, Achyuta - 2018
decisions. We study consequences of the adoption of energy-efficient LED lighting in garment factories around Bangalore, India …
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Understanding the Impact of Low-Cost Loans on Forced Labor
Sharma, Anisha; Shah, Manisha; Łuczywek, Beata - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Approximately 27.5 million individuals fell victim to forced labor in 2021. The Indian construction industry is particularly vulnerable to forced labor as workers experience excessive work hours, required work on rest days, and unpaid wages. Micro-contractors (MCs), who oversee worker...
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What's Driving the New Economy : The Benefits of Workplace Innovation
Black, Sandra E. - 2000
Using a unique nationally representative sample of U.S. establishments surveyed in 1993 and 1996, we examine the relationship between workplace innovations and establishment productivity and wages. We match plant level practices with plant level productivity and wage outcomes and estimate...
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Do "High Performance" Work Practices Improve Establishment-Level Outcomes?
Neumark, David - 1999
Interest in the potential effects of different systems for organizing work and managing employees on the performance of organizations has a long history in the social sciences. The interest in economics, arguably more recent, reflects a general concern about the sources of competitiveness in...
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Information Technology, Workplace Organization and the Demand for Skilled Labor : Firm-Level Evidence
Bresnahan, Timothy F. - 1999
Recently, the relative demand for skilled labor has increased dramatically. We investigate one of the causes, skill-biased technical change. Advances in information technology (IT) are among the most powerful forces bearing on the economy. Employers who use IT often make complementary...
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