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relationship between workplace innovations and establishment productivity and wages. We match plant level practices with plant … establishments. When we examine the determinants of wages within these establishments, we find that re-engineering a workplace to …
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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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We explore workers' valuation of job flexibility, using a field experiment conducted on a Chinese job board, as well as survey and observational data for the same job seekers. Our experimental job ads differ randomly in offering jobs that are flexible regarding when one works (time flexibility)...
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While workplace flexibility is perceived to be a key determinant of maternal labor supply, less is known about fathers … impacts of paternal access to workplace flexibility on maternal postpartum health. We model household demand for paternal … a lack of workplace flexibility--not only directly through greater career costs of family formation, as previously …
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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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The threat of COVID-19 has increased the health risks of going to an office or factory, leading more workers to do their jobs remotely. In this paper, we provide results from firm surveys on both small and large businesses on the prevalence and productivity of remote work, and expectations about...
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Evaluating the economic impact of "social distancing" measures taken to arrest the spread of COVID-19 raises a fundamental question about the modern economy: how many jobs can be performed at home? We classify the feasibility of working at home for all occupations and merge this classification...
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We show that task juggling, i.e., the spreading of effort across too many active projects, decreases the performance of workers, raising the chances of low throughput, long duration of projects and exploding backlogs. Individual speed of job completion cannot be explained only in terms of...
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In this handbook of labor economics chapter we examine the relationship between Human Resource Management (HRM) and productivity. HRM includes incentive pay (individual and group) as well as many non-pay aspects of the employment relationship such as matching (hiring and firing) and work...
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.S. bank, we consider whether there is a distinctive workplace component to employee attitudes despite the common set of … attitudes and the determinants of branch sales are consistent with an interpretation that workplace-specific factors lead to …
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