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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

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

Discrete Innovation, Continuous Improvement,and Competitive Pressure

Ghosh, Arghya; Kato, Takao; Morita, Hodaka - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861521

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 …

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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

Third-Party vs. Second-Party Control : Disentangling the Role of Autonomy and Reciprocity

Burdín, Gabriel - 2015

This paper studies the role of autonomy and reciprocity in explaining control averse responses in principal-agents interactions. While most of the social psychology literature emphasizes the role of autonomy, recent economic research has provided an alternative explanation based on reciprocity....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016255

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

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

Corporate Hierarchies Under Employee Representation

Belloc, Filippo - 2020

This paper analyzes whether workplace employee representation (ER) affects the design of firm hierarchies. We rationalize the role of ER within a knowledge-based model of hierarchies, where the firm's choice of hierarchical layers depends on the trade-off between communication and knowledge...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822863

Robots and Worker Voice : An Empirical Exploration

Belloc, Filippo; Burdin, Gabriel; Landini, Fabio - 2021

The interplay between labour institutions and the adoption of automation technologies remains poorly understood. Specifically, there is little evidence on how the nature of industrial relations shapes technological choices at the workplace level. Using a large sample of more than 20000 European...

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