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Town and city jobs : job contents, skills and city size
Kok, Suzanne - 2012 - Incomplete and draft version
Large metropolitan regions with pollution, congestion and high rents remain the supernatural economic places. The mystery of what exactly raises productivity in large cities continues. Going back to the famous pin factory of Adam Smith, the answer might be that city workers are able to...
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Town and city jobs: How your job is different in another location
Kok, Suzanne - In: Regional Science and Urban Economics 49 (2014) C, pp. 58-67
This paper shows that a job contains a different task package in a large city than the same job in a small city. We question whether the division of tasks is more extensive in large cities. Most datasets hinder such an empirical analysis as they lack spatial variation in job content. Using...
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Managerial Leverage is Limited By the Extent of the Market: Hierarchies, Specialization and the Utilization of Lawyers' Human Capital
Garicano, Luis; Hubbard, Thomas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
This paper examines hierarchies’ role in the organization of human-capital-intensive production. We develop an equilibrium model of hierarchical organization, then provide empirical evidence using confidential data on thousands of law offices from the 1992 Census of Services. We show how the...
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The division of labor and the market for organizations
Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - 2000
rotation. Whereas the existing literature on the division of labor within firms emphasizes the returns from specialization and …
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Organizational powers : capture of professional jurisdiction in the case of US retail clinics
Galperin, Roman V. - 2011
Innovative technology may reduce organizations’ reliance on professionals in the performance of expert tasks, weakening professions’ control over work. However, professions resist and challenge such innovation, framing it as unsafe and immoral. This paper theorizes a process by which...
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Local unemployment and specialisation
Ritter, Peer; Walz, Uwe - 1998
Recent empirical work has shown that there exists a negative relation between wages and unemployment estimated across regions. Our model recognises the spatial dimension of the so-called wage curve by using a Hotelling/Salop framework in which a finite number of firms compete for heterogeneous...
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Skill composition and regional entrepreneurship : a comparative study between Germany and Portugal
Mendonça, Joana; Grimpe, Christoph - 2009
The question whether agglomeration externalities arise either from specialization or diversification of economic … the specialization of skills has a positive effect on the level on new firm entry in all sectors. In contrast to this, our … results for Germany reveal exactly the opposite effect. These results suggest that both specialization and diversity theories …
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Are specific skills an obstacle to labor market adjustment?
Lamo, Ana; Messina, Julián; Wasmer, Etienne - 2010
. Quantitative exercises suggest that the over-specialization of the labor force in Poland led to much higher and persistent …
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Measuring and interpreting trends in the division of labour in the Netherlands
Akçomak, İbrahim Semih; Borghans, Lex; Weel, Bas ter - 2011
This paper introduces indicators about the division of labour to measure and interpret recent trends in the structure of employment in the Netherlands. Changes in the division of labour occur at three different levels: the level of the individual worker, the level of the industry and the spatial...
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Division of labour and directed production
Ratto, Marisa (contributor); Schnedler, Wendelin (contributor) - 2005
We examine a situation where efforts on different tasks positively affect production but are not separately verifiable and where the manager (principal) and the worker (agent) have different ideas about how production should be carried out: agents prefer a less efficient way of production. We...
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