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Information transparency, fairness and labor market efficiency

Isgin, Ebru; Sopher, Barry - 2013

The paper studies the role of information transparency on fairness concerns, welfare and efficiency. When the firm's productivity and ultimately profits are revealed, wage offers induce relatively fair divisions of potential gains and workers respond with higher performance. Workers respond not...

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The headmaster ritual: The importance of management for school outcomes

Böhlmark, Anders; Grönqvist, Erik; Vlachos, Jonas - 2012

The role of school principals largely resembles that of corporate managers and the leadership they provide is often viewed as a crucial component for educational success. We estimate the impact of individual principals on various schooling outcomes, by constructing a principal-school panel data...

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Power-Biased Technological Change and the Rise in Earnings Inequality

Skott, Peter; Guy, Frederick - 2005

New information and communication technologies, we argue, have been 'power-biased': they have allowed firms to monitor low-skill workers more closely, thus reducing the power of these workers. An efficiency wage model shows that 'power-biased technical change' in this sense may generate rising...

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Information and communications technologies, coordination and control, and the distribution of income

Guy, Frederick; Skott, Peter - 2007

We consider the links between information and communications technologies (ICTs) and the distribution of income, as mediated by problems of coordination and control within organizations. In the large corporations of the mid-twentieth century, a highly developed division of labor was coordinated...

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Power, productivity and profits

Guy, Frederick; Skott, Peter - 2007

New information and communication technologies, we argue, have been 'power-biased': in many industries they have allowed firms to monitor workers more closely, thus reducing the power of these workers. An efficiency wage model shows that 'power-biased technical change' in this sense may generate...

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Automobile sector in India at the current juncture: Crisis and prospects

Jha, Praveen K.; Mishra, Preksha; Singh, Kamya - 2023

As the COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc along Global Value Systems (GVSs) and India's domestic economic crisis deepened, the already struggling Indian Automotive sector incurred huge losses owing to both demand and supply side factors. In fact, the sector has been under significant strain over...

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Technology shocks, employment, and labor market frictions

Mandelman, Federico S.; Zanetti, Francesco - 2008

employment to a technology shock. The results of the estimation support the hypothesis that labor market frictions are … responsible for the negative response of employment. …

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Inventories, employment and hours

Galeotti, Marzio; Maccini, Louis J.; Schiantarelli, Fabio - 2002

associated with it In particular we distinguish between employment hours and effort per worker and allow for adjustment costs … associated with employment changes We assume that the requirement function for effective hours has a general trans …-logarithmic form and derive an estimable system of Euler equations for inventories and employment with implied cross …

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Formal and informal labour markets: Challenges and policy in the Central and Eastern European new EU members and candidate countries

Schneider, Friedrich; Burger, Christina - 2004

depicted and its effects on formal and informal labour markets. The most important challenges for employment policy as well as …

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Sustainable Consumption and Worktime Reduction

Schor, Juliet - 2004

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