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Earnings-Tenure Profiles:Tests of Agency and Human Capital TheoriesUsing Individual Performance Data
Dong, Xiao-yuan; Jones, Derek C.; Kato, Takao - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
By using a large new panel of individual data, including objective measures of workerperformance, we provide some of the most rigorous evidence to date on several relateddimensions of enduring debates surrounding upward-sloping earnings-tenure profiles...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861528
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Earnings-Tenure Profiles : Tests of Agency and Human Capital Theories Using Individual Performance Data
Jones, Derek C.; Dong, Xiao-Yuan; Kato, Takao - 2021
By using a large new panel of individual data, including objective measures of worker performance, we provide some of the most rigorous evidence to date on several related dimensions of enduring debates surrounding upward-sloping earnings-tenure profiles. Most importantly we provide the first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316753
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Discrete Innovation, Continuous Improvement,and Competitive Pressure
Ghosh, Arghya; Kato, Takao; Morita, Hodaka - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Does competitive pressure foster innovation? In addressing this important question, priorstudies ignored a distinction … between discrete innovation aiming at entirely new technologyand continuous improvement consisting of numerous incremental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861521
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Discrete Innovation, Continuous Improvement, and Competitive Pressure
Ghosh, Arghya; Kato, Takao; Morita, Hodaka - 2021
Does competitive pressure foster innovation? In addressing this important question, prior studies ignored a distinction … between discrete innovation aiming at entirely new technology and continuous improvement consisting of numerous incremental … innovation will lead to a much richer understanding of the interplay between firms' incentives to innovate and competitive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316746
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The Impact of Teams on Output, Quality and Downtime:An Empirical Analysis Using Individual Panel Data
Jones, Derek C.; Kato, Takao - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
To investigate the size and the timing of the direct impact of participatory arrangements onbusiness performance, we assemble and analyze extraordinary daily data – for rejection,production and downtime rates for all operators in a single plant during a 35 month period,more than 77,000...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862585
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Remote Work Across Jobs, Companies, and Space
Hansen, Stephen; Lambert, Peter; Bloom, Nicholas; … - 2023
The pandemic catalyzed an enduring shift to remote work. To measure and characterize this shift, we examine more than 250 million job vacancy postings across five English-speaking countries. Our measurements rely on a state-of-the-art languageprocessing framework that we fit, test, and refine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014254299
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High Performance Work Practices and Employee Voice : A Comparison of Japanese and Korean Workers
Bae, Kiu-Sik - 2010
Using a unique new cross-national survey of Japanese and Korean workers, we report the first systematic evidence on the effects on employee voice of High Performance Work Practices (HPWPs) from the two economies which are noted for the wide use of HPWPs. We find for both nations that: (i)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141763
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The Impact of Teams on Output, Quality and Downtime : An Empirical Analysis Using Individual Panel Data
Jones, Derek C.; Kato, Takao - 2021
To investigate the size and the timing of the direct impact of participatory arrangements on business performance, we assemble and analyze extraordinary daily data - for rejection, production and downtime rates for all operators in a single plant during a 35 month period, more than 77,000...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316923
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What Drives Differences in Management?
Bloom, Nicholas - 2017
Partnering with the Census we implement a new survey of "structured" management practices in 32,000 US manufacturing plants. We find an enormous dispersion of management practices across plants, with 40% of this variation across plants within the same firm. This management variation accounts for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012957488
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Turbulence, Firm Decentralization and Growth in Bad Times
Aghion, Philippe - 2017
What is the optimal form of firm organization during "bad times"? Using two large micro datasets on firm decentralization from US administrative data and 10 OECD countries, we find that firms that delegated more power from the Central Headquarters to local plant managers prior to the Great...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012957505