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The Anatomy of French Production Hierarchies

Caliendo, Lorenzo - 2012

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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Employee Response to Compulsory Short-Time Work

Fuchs, Victor R. - 1986

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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Adoption and Termination of Employee Involvement Programs

Chi, Wei - 2007

This study uses a 10-year longitudinal database on U.S. manufacturing establishments to analyze the dynamics of the adoption and termination of employee involvement programs (EI). We show that firms' use of EI has not grown continuously, but rather introduce and terminate EI policies in ways...

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Organizational Change in French Manufacturing : What Do We Learn From Firm Representatives and From Their Employees?

Greenan, Nathalie - 1999

In this paper, we use a French matched employer-employee survey, the COI survey, conducted in 1997, to describe the general features of organizational change in manufacturing firms with more than 50 employees. In a first section, we explore the methodological issues associated with the building...

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Examining the Incidence of Downsizing and Its Effect on Establishment Performance

Cappelli, Peter - 2000

The interest in examining job security and job stability has been driven in part by the phenomenon of downsizing. The … distinctiveness of downsizing, as opposed to more traditional layoffs, is that the job cuts do not necessarily appear to be driven by … shortfalls in demand but instead appear to be driven by the search for operating efficiencies. Despite the interest in downsizing …

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The Economic Performance of Survivors after Layoffs : A Plant-Level Study

Ichniowski, Casey - 1986

This study tests for the empirical relationship between layoffs and the economic performance of workers who remain after the layoffs. Previous studies performed in laboratory settings have often found increases in the efficiency of workers after layoffs. This analysis is the first to test for...

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Private Equity and Employment

Davis, Steven J. - 2011

Private equity critics claim that leveraged buyouts bring huge job losses. To investigate this claim, we construct and analyze a new dataset that covers U.S. private equity transactions from 1980 to 2005. We track 3,200 target firms and their 150,000 establishments before and after acquisition,...

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What Makes Them Tick? Employee Motives and Firm Innovation

Sauermann, Henry - 2008

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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Service Imports, Workforce Composition, and Firm Performance : Evidence from Finnish Microdata

Ariu, Andrea - 2019

This paper uses unique Finnish firm-level micro data on service imports, work- force composition, and firm characteristics to examine changes in employment composition and performance of Finnish service importers during a period of a significant increase in services imports (2002-2012). We use...

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Do CEOs know best? : evidence from China

Bloom, Nicholas; Cheng, Hong; Duggan, Mark G.; Li, Hongbin - 2018

We analyze a new management survey for around 1,000 firms and 10,000 employees across two large provinces in China. The unique aspect of this survey is it collected management data from the CEO, a random sample of senior managers and workers. We document four main results. First, management...

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