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Corporate Flexibility in a Time of Crisis
Barry, John W.; Campello, Murillo; Graham, John R.; Ma, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We use the COVID shock to study the direct and interactive effects of several forms of corporate flexibility on short- and long-term real business plans. We find that i) workplace flexibility, namely the ability for employees to work remotely, plays a central role in determining firms'...
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The Impact of Paid Family Leave on Employers : Evidence from New York
Bartel, Ann; Rossin-Slater, Maya; Ruhm, Christopher J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We designed and fielded a survey of New York and Pennsylvania firms to study the impacts of New York's 2018 Paid Family Leave policy on employer outcomes. We match each NY firm to a comparable PA firm and use difference-in-difference models to analyze within-match-pair changes in outcomes. We...
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Sorting with Team Formation
Boerma, Job; Tsyvinski, Aleh; Zimin, Alexander P. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We fully solve an assignment problem with heterogeneous firms and multiple heterogeneous workers whose skills are imperfect substitutes, that is, when production is submodular. We show that sorting is neither positive nor negative and is characterized sufficiently by two regions. In the first...
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Human Resource Management Systems and the Performance of U.S. Manufacturing Businesses
Ichniowski, Casey - 1990
This paper estimates the effects of systems of human resource management policies on the performance of U … human resource management system with flexible job design, formal training, and workplace communication mechanisms have the … highest levels of economic performance. Nonunion businesses with ''Union-style" human resource management systems involving …
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Too Many Managers : The Strategic Use of Titles to Avoid Overtime Payments
Cohen, Lauren; Gurun, Umit G.; Ozel, N. Bugra - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We find widespread evidence of firms appearing to avoid paying overtime wages by exploiting a federal law that allows them to do so for employees termed as "managers" and paid a salary above a pre-defined dollar threshold. We show that listings for salaried positions with managerial titles...
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The Big Three and Board Gender Diversity : The Effectiveness of Shareholder Voice
Gormley, Todd A.; Gupta, Vishal K.; Matsa, David A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
In 2017, "The Big Three" institutional investors launched campaigns to increase gender diversity on corporate boards. We estimate that their campaigns led American corporations to add at least 2.5 times as many female directors in 2019 as they had in 2016. Firms increased diversity by...
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An Experimental Evaluation of Deferred Acceptance : Evidence from Over 100 Army Officer Labor Markets
Davis, Jonathan M. V.; Greenberg, Kyle; Jones, Damon - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We present evidence from a randomized trial of the impact of matching workers to jobs using the deferred acceptance (DA) algorithm. Our setting is the U.S. Army's annual many-to-one marketplace that matches 10,000 officers to units. Officers and jobs are partitioned into over 100 distinct...
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The US Productivity Slowdown, the Baby Boom, and Management Quality
Feyrer, James - 2009
This paper examines whether management changes caused by the entry of the baby boom into the workforce explain the US … significant role in determining output. If there is heterogeneity across workers and management skill improves with experience, an … influx of young workers will lower the overall quality of management and lower total factor productivity. Census data shows …
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The Organizational Implications of Creativity : The US Film Industry in Mid-XXth Century
Gil, Ricard - 2007
We develop a basic framework to understand the organization of highly creative activities. Management faces a …
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Managing Trade : Evidence from China and the US
Bloom, Nicholas - 2018
We present a heterogeneous-firm model in which management ability increases both production efficiency and product … quality. Combining six micro-datasets on management practices, production and trade in Chinese and American firms, we find … inputs, and imported inputs from more advanced countries. The structural estimates indicate that management is important for …
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