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Understanding the Experiences of Relocatees During Forced Relocation in Chinese Urban Restructuring

van Ham, Maarten - 2016

Despite the massive forced relocation of residents during urban restructuring in China, there are no systematic studies … on how residents undergo the process. Most studies concerning urban restructuring in China directly equate forced … restructuring in China. It takes forced relocation to be a process with changing contents over time, and as a specific type of …

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Hidden Action, Identification, and Organization Design

Schnedler, Wendelin - 2010

Incentives often fail in inducing economic agents to engage in a desirable activity; implementability is restricted. What restricts implementability? When does re-organization help to overcome this restriction? This paper shows that any restriction of implementability is caused by an...

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Technological and Organizational Change and the Careers of Workers

Battisti, Michele; Dustmann, Christian; Schönberg, Uta - 2022

This paper investigates the effects of technological and organizational change (T&O) on jobs and workers. We show that although T&O reduces firm demand for routine relative to abstract task-based jobs, affected workers do not face higher probability of non-employment or lower earnings growth...

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Convergence in Institutions and Market Outcomes : Cross-Country and Time-Series Evidence from the BEEPS Surveys in Transition Economies

Mitra, Pradeep K.; Muravyev, Alexander; Schaffer, Mark E. - 2021

This paper uses the BEEPS firm-level data to study the process of convergence of transition countries with developed market economies. The primary focus of the study is on competition and market structure, finance and the structure of lending to firms, and how firms respond to the economic...

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Organizational Redesign, Information Technologies and Workplace Productivity

Dostie, Benoît; Jayaraman, Rajshri - 2021

Using a large longitudinal, nationally representative workplace-level dataset, we explore the productivity gains associated with computer use and organizational redesign. The empirical strategy involves the estimation of a production function, augmented to account for technology use and...

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Age Biased Technical and Organisational Change, Training and Employment Prospects of Older Workers

Behaghel, Luc - 2011

We analyse the role of training in mitigating the negative impact of technical and organizational changes on the employment prospects of older workers. Using a panel of French firms in the late 1990s, we first estimate wage bill share equations for different age groups. Consistently with what is...

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Changes in Healthcare Utilization, Spending, and Perceived Health During Covid–19 : A Longitudinal Study from Singapore

Ahn, SangNam - 2020

The COVID–19 pandemic has challenged the capacity of healthcare systems around the world and can potentially compromise healthcare utilization and health outcomes among non-COVID–19 patients. Using monthly panel data of nationally representative middle-aged and older Singaporeans, we...

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Workforce Reorganization and the Worker

Kriechel, Ben; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2021

In this paper we study the joint decision process of changing the structure of jobs and laying off individual workers in a firm that downsizes its workforce. A hierarchical decision model is proposed and estimated using personnel data from a firm in demise comparing the characteristics of the...

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Technological and Organizational Changes, and Labor Flows : Evidence on French Establishments

Askenazy, Philippe; Moreno-Galbis, Eva - 2021

This paper investigates the effects of organizational and technological changes on job stability of different occupational categories in France. We conduct an empirical analysis in which we make extensive use of a unique data set on a representative sample of French establishments. Working with...

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Examining the Relationship between Employee Resistance to Changes in Job Conditions and Wider Organisational Change : Evidence from Ireland

Cronin, Hugh - 2014

This paper uses a linked employer-employee dataset, the National Employment Survey, to examine the determinants of organisational change and employee resistance to change and, specifically, to examine the influence of employee inflexibility on the implementation of firm-level policies aimed at...

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