Log in

Relevant bibliographies by topics / Workers and firms / Journal articles

To see the other types of publications on this topic, follow the link: Workers and firms.

Journal articles on the topic 'Workers and firms'

Author: Grafiati

Published: 4 June 2021

Last updated: 16 February 2022

Create a spot-on reference in APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, and other styles

Select a source type:

Consult the top 50 journal articles for your research on the topic 'Workers and firms.'

Next to every source in the list of references, there is an 'Add to bibliography' button. Press on it, and we will generate automatically the bibliographic reference to the chosen work in the citation style you need: APA, MLA, Harvard, Chicago, Vancouver, etc.

You can also download the full text of the academic publication as pdf and read online its abstract whenever available in the metadata.

Browse journal articles on a wide variety of disciplines and organise your bibliography correctly.

1

Hummels, David, Jakob R. Munch, Lars Skipper, and Chong Xiang. "Offshoring, Transition, and Training: Evidence from Danish Matched Worker-Firm Data." American Economic Review 102, no. 3 (2012): 424–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/aer.102.3.424.

Full text

Abstract:

We combine matched Danish worker-firm-trade data with detailed individual-worker training data. We find: 1) workers displaced from offshoring firms take up more vocational-training and have a harder time getting re-attached to the labor-force than other displaced workers, and they also exhibit higher vocational-training take-up rates 2 years before layoffs; 2) the staying workers with offshoring firms take up more vocational-training than those with non-offshoring firms; and 3) the post-secondary-training take-up rates for displaced workers are no different than for the general population.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

2

Hofman, Peter S., Bin Wu, and Kaiming Liu. "Collaborative Socially Responsible Practices for Improving the Position of Chinese Workers in Global Supply Chains." Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 43, no. 4 (2014): 111–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/186810261404300405.

Full text

Abstract:

In this paper we evaluate three projects with the participation of 40 supplier firms in several Chinese coastal provinces representing multi-stakeholder efforts to provide alternative channels through which workers can voice their concerns. The supplier firms took on these projects to reduce worker dissatisfaction and employee turnover. The projects fill an institutional void in employer–employee relations within Chinese supplier firms as they provide alternative channels for workers to voice their concerns. The role of civil society organisations focusing on labour interests was a crucial fea

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

3

Even, William E., and David A. MacPherson. "Employer Size and Labor Turnover: The Role of Pensions." ILR Review 49, no. 4 (1996): 707–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/001979399604900408.

Full text

Abstract:

The well-documented lower labor turnover in large firms than in smaller firms has been cited as evidence that large firms pay workers above their opportunity wage. This study investigates whether the relationship between firm size and turnover can instead be accounted for in part by size-related differences in the availability, portability, or generosity of pension plans. Analyzing extensive data for the years 1973–93, the authors find that pension coverage was associated with a greater reduction in worker turnover in large firms than in small firms. They also find that when appropriate contro

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

4

Haltiwanger, John C., Henry R. Hyatt, Lisa B. Kahn, and Erika McEntarfer. "Cyclical Job Ladders by Firm Size and Firm Wage." American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 10, no. 2 (2018): 52–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/mac.20150245.

Full text

Abstract:

We study whether workers progress up firm wage and size job ladders, and the cyclicality of this movement. Search theory predicts that workers should flow toward larger, higher paying firms. However, we see little evidence of a firm size ladder, partly because small, young firms poach workers from all other businesses. In contrast, we find strong evidence of a firm wage ladder that is highly procyclical. During the Great Recession, this firm wage ladder collapsed, with net worker reallocation to higher wage firms falling to zero. The earnings consequences from this lack of upward progression a

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

5

Doucouliagos, Chris. "Worker Participation and Productivity in Labor-Managed and Participatory Capitalist Firms: A Meta-Analysis." ILR Review 49, no. 1 (1995): 58–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/001979399504900104.

Full text

Abstract:

Using meta-analytic techniques, the author synthesizes the results of 43 published studies to investigate the effects on productivity of various forms of worker participation: worker participation in decision making; mandated codetermination; profit sharing; worker ownership (employee stock ownership or individual worker ownership of the firm's assets); and collective ownership of assets (workers' collective ownership of reserves over which they have no individual claim). He finds that codetermination laws are negatively associated with productivity, but profit sharing, worker ownership, and w

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

6

Holland, Sara B. "The Welfare Implications of Health Capital Investment." Quarterly Journal of Finance 04, no. 02 (2014): 1450007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s2010139214500074.

Full text

Abstract:

I present a model of the health capital investment decision of a firm using a moral hazard framework. Health capital investment increases the probability that a worker is present and productive. The firm cannot verify a worker's health capital investment decision. When a firm invests in health capital, the investment is verifiable because the firm contracts with the insurer. I derive the optimal contract for when the worker and for when the firm invests in health capital. When the firm invests in health capital, the level of investment is higher and wages are less volatile. In my model, firms

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

7

Saygin, Perihan Ozge, Andrea Weber, and Michèle A. Weynandt. "Coworkers, Networks, and Job-Search Outcomes among Displaced Workers." ILR Review 74, no. 1 (2019): 95–130. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0019793919881988.

Full text

Abstract:

This article examines the mechanisms by which social networks affect the labor market outcomes of displaced workers. The authors draw on administrative records for the universe of private-sector employment in Austria to identify work-related networks among former coworkers. They analyze the importance of social networks for both job seekers and hiring firms. For job seekers, results indicate that having a high share of former coworkers who are currently employed in expanding firms improves job-finding success. For firms seeking to hire new employees, the authors find that a firm is twice as li

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

8

Song, Jae, David J. Price, Fatih Guvenen, Nicholas Bloom, and Till von Wachter. "Firming Up Inequality*." Quarterly Journal of Economics 134, no. 1 (2018): 1–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjy025.

Full text

Abstract:

Abstract We use a massive, matched employer-employee database for the United States to analyze the contribution of firms to the rise in earnings inequality from 1978 to 2013. We find that one-third of the rise in the variance of (log) earnings occurred within firms, whereas two-thirds of the rise occurred due to a rise in the dispersion of average earnings between firms. However, this rising between-firm variance is not accounted for by the firms themselves but by a widening gap between firms in the composition of their workers. This compositional change can be split into two roughly equal par

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

9

Endoh, Masahiro. "The Effect of Import Competition on Wages in the Japanese Manufacturing Sector." Asian Economic Papers 17, no. 1 (2018): 46–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/asep_a_00585.

Full text

Abstract:

This study estimates the effect of import competition in the final goods market on workers’ wages in the Japanese manufacturing sector by constructing a panel of matched worker–firm data for 1998–2013 wages. The baseline results show that import competition does not decrease unskilled workers’ wages and increases the skill premia of workers with college degrees or those in managerial and professional positions. Large firms and firms with low productivity also increased their wage premia through import competition, but the degree of increase due to firm-level factors is much smaller than that d

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

10

Hasegawa, Rei, Shinji Hasegawa, and Takashi Akiyama. "The Inferred Determinants of Employees’ Turnover Intention: A Comparison between Japanese and Foreign-Owned Firms in Japan." International Journal of Business and Management 16, no. 8 (2021): 96. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijbm.v16n8p96.

Full text

Abstract:

This study compares the factors that are inferred to directly and indirectly influence the process of determining employees&rsquo; turnover intention in Japan. This study focuses on the differences made by firm type, that is, Japanese firms vs. foreign-owned or foreign-affiliated firms. Multiple-group structural equation modeling was attempted by applying factors such as perceived organizational support, the positiveness of a worker, firm-specific skills, organizational commitment, perception of career opportunities within the current firm and in other firms, and turnover intention. It was

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

11

Kline, Patrick, Neviana Petkova, Heidi Williams, and Owen Zidar. "Who Profits from Patents? Rent-Sharing at Innovative Firms*." Quarterly Journal of Economics 134, no. 3 (2019): 1343–404. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjz011.

Full text

Abstract:

Abstract This article analyzes how patent-induced shocks to labor productivity propagate into worker compensation using a new linkage of U.S. patent applications to U.S. business and worker tax records. We infer the causal effects of patent allowances by comparing firms whose patent applications were initially allowed to those whose patent applications were initially rejected. To identify patents that are ex ante valuable, we extrapolate the excess stock return estimates of Kogan et al. (2017) to the full set of accepted and rejected patent applications based on predetermined firm and patent a

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

12

Ferrer, Ana, and Stéphanie Lluis. "Should Workers Care about Firm Size?" ILR Review 62, no. 1 (2008): 104–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/001979390806200106.

Full text

Abstract:

The authors analyze how firms of different sizes reward measured skills and unmeasured ability. The empirical methodology, based on nonlinear instrumental variable estimation, permits direct estimation of the returns to unmeasured ability by firm size. An analysis of panel data from the Canadian Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics for two periods, 1993–1998 and 1996–2001, reveals statistically significant differences between firms of different sizes. In particular, returns to unmeasured ability are higher in medium-sized firms than in either small firms or large firms. The authors find that t

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

13

Bonhomme, Stéphane, Thibaut Lamadon, and Elena Manresa. "A Distributional Framework for Matched Employer Employee Data." Econometrica 87, no. 3 (2019): 699–739. http://dx.doi.org/10.3982/ecta15722.

Full text

Abstract:

We propose a framework to identify and estimate earnings distributions and worker composition on matched panel data, allowing for two‐sided worker‐firm unobserved heterogeneity and complementarities in earnings. We introduce two models: a static model that allows for nonlinear interactions between workers and firms, and a dynamic model that allows, in addition, for Markovian earnings dynamics and endogenous mobility. We show that this framework nests a number of structural models of wages and worker mobility. We establish identification in short panels, and develop tractable two‐step estimator

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

14

Moran, Nora. "Examining attitudes on pay for low level workers: do consumers care?" Journal of Consumer Marketing 36, no. 1 (2019): 136–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jcm-03-2018-2593.

Full text

Abstract:

Purpose This paper examines whether decisions to improve pay for low-level employees lead to more positive attitudes toward firms, depending on firm’s service reputation. Design/methodology Four experiments examine whether information on compensation decisions for employees affects consumer attitudes toward firms. Findings Results show attitudes toward firms providing raises are more positive when firms are known for high quality (vs average) service. This occurs because individuals use information about firm reputation as a cue to make inferences about employees, and fairness of firm pay proc

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

15

Stoyanov, Andrey, and Nikolay Zubanov. "Productivity Spillovers Across Firms through Worker Mobility." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 4, no. 2 (2012): 168–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/app.4.2.168.

Full text

Abstract:

Using matched firm-worker data from Danish manufacturing, we observe firm-to-firm worker movements and find that firms that hired workers from more productive firms experience productivity gains one year after the hiring. The productivity gains associated with hiring from more productive firms are equivalent to 0.35 percent per year for an average firm. Surviving a variety of statistical controls, these gains increase with education, tenure, and skill level of new hires, persist for several years after the hiring was done, and remain broadly similar for different industries and measures of pro

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

16

Lise, Jeremy, and Jean-Marc Robin. "The Macrodynamics of Sorting between Workers and Firms." American Economic Review 107, no. 4 (2017): 1104–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/aer.20131118.

Full text

Abstract:

We develop an equilibrium model of on-the-job search with ex ante heterogeneous workers and firms, aggregate uncertainty, and vacancy creation. The model produces rich dynamics in which the distributions of unemployed workers, vacancies, and worker-firm matches evolve stochastically over time. We prove that the surplus function, which fully characterizes the match value and the mobility decision of workers, does not depend on these distributions. This result means the model is tractable and can be estimated. We illustrate the quantitative implications of the model by fitting to US aggregate la

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

17

Eeckhout, Jan. "Sorting in the Labor Market." Annual Review of Economics 10, no. 1 (2018): 1–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-economics-080217-053526.

Full text

Abstract:

This review surveys the literature on sorting in the labor market. There are inherent differences in worker ability and across-firm productivity. Two fundamental questions are whether the exact composition of skills of workers and productivity of firms affects output and how this composition determines the equilibrium allocation of workers within a firm and between firms. There has been a surge of research investigating the causes and consequences of the process of allocation of heterogeneous workers to firms. The focus in this review is on theory that sheds light on open questions in macroeco

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

18

Gautier, Pieter A., and Christian L. Holzner. "Simultaneous Search and Efficiency of Entry and Search Intensity." American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 9, no. 3 (2017): 245–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/mic.20160088.

Full text

Abstract:

We consider a model where firms open vacancies and post and commit to a wage mechanism. Search is costly and workers simultaneously apply to multiple jobs. Firms can be connected to multiple workers and workers to multiple firms. We use a new method to derive the expected maximum number of matches in a large market as a function of the number of applications and market tightness. We also derive the conditions under which firm entry, worker participation, and search intensity are socially efficient. Finally, we show that a sequential auction under incomplete information can establish the social

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

19

Bessen, James. "Technology and Learning by Factory Workers: The Stretch-Out at Lowell, 1842." Journal of Economic History 63, no. 1 (2003): 33–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022050703001724.

Full text

Abstract:

In 1842 Lowell textile firms increased weaving productivity by assigning three looms per worker instead of two. This marked a turning point. Before, weavers at Lowell were temporary and mostly literate Yankee farm girls; afterwards, firms increasingly hired local residents, including illiterate and Irish workers. An important factor was on-the-job learning. Literate workers learned new technology faster, but local workers stayed longer. These changes were unprofitable before 1842, and the advantages of literacy declined over time. Firm policy and social institutions slowly changed to permit de

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

20

Hjort, Jonas. "Ethnic Divisions and Production in Firms *." Quarterly Journal of Economics 129, no. 4 (2014): 1899–946. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/qje/qju028.

Full text

Abstract:

Abstract A body of literature suggests that ethnic heterogeneity limits economic growth. This article provides microeconometric evidence on the direct effect of ethnic divisions on productivity. In team production at a plant in Kenya, an upstream worker supplies and distributes flowers to two downstream workers, who assemble them into bunches. The plant uses an essentially random rotation process to assign workers to positions, leading to three types of teams: (i) ethnically homogeneous teams, and teams in which (ii) one or (iii) both downstream workers belong to a tribe in rivalry with the up

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

21

Whatley, Warren C. "Getting a Foot in the Door: “Learning,” State Dependence, and the Racial Integration of Firms." Journal of Economic History 50, no. 1 (1990): 43–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022050700035713.

Full text

Abstract:

Economists have emphasized supply-side learning when explaining long-term trends in racial income differences. This article demonstrates that learning also occurred on the demand side. Estimation of a state-dependence model of the sequence of racial employment outcomes of firms in Cincinnati, Ohio, during World War I shows that the introduction of black workers into a previously all-white firm generated new experiences within the firm, altering its future racial employment decisions.This suggests that more research should be done on how firms and labor markets processed information about worke

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

22

Riekhoff, Aart-Jan, Noora Järnefelt, and Mikko Laaksonen. "Workforce Composition and the Risk of Labor Market Exit Among Older Workers in Finnish Companies." Work, Aging and Retirement 6, no. 2 (2019): 88–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/workar/waz023.

Full text

Abstract:

Abstract This article investigates how a firm’s workforce characteristics affect an individual’s timing of exit from the labor market. It analyzes the relations between the age, skill, and wage structures of companies and the risk of labor market exit of Finnish older workers by using the detailed longitudinal register-based Finnish Linked Employer–Employee Data. The study follows the Finnish working population born between 1942 and 1950 (N = 216,713). Multilevel discrete-time survival analysis with individuals nested in firms is applied to estimate the risk of permanent exit from work between

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

23

Krishna, Pravin, Jennifer P. Poole, and Mine Zeynep Senses. "Trade, Labor Market Frictions, and Residual Wage Inequality across Worker Groups." American Economic Review 102, no. 3 (2012): 417–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/aer.102.3.417.

Full text

Abstract:

Using a matched employer-employee data set, we study the effects of trade liberalization on wage dispersion in Brazil across heterogeneous worker groups, keeping in mind that the assignment of workers to firms may be non-random and determined by the time-invariant productivity of workers specific to the firms with which they are matched. We find differential effects of trade reform on residual wage inequality across worker groups. High education workers experience greater increases in wage dispersion relative to low education workers following trade liberalization. This finding is broadly cons

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

24

Minardi, Saverio. "Firm-level agreements, employment strategies and temporary workers." Employee Relations: The International Journal 42, no. 1 (2020): 194–212. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/er-01-2019-0062.

Full text

Abstract:

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of two-tier firm-level collective agreements on firms’ propensity to use temporary employment, accounting for the process of self-selection of firms into different bargaining levels in the Italian context. It further examines which firm-level characteristics drive this process of selection. Design/methodology/approach The empirical analysis uses a panel data set of Italian firms for the years 2005, 2007, 2010 and 2015. Estimations are produced and compared through ordinary least square regression, random-effects and fixed-effects m

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

25

Levy, Matthew, and Balázs Szentes. "An Alternative to Signaling: Directed Search and Substitution." American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 8, no. 4 (2016): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/mic.20150116.

Full text

Abstract:

This paper analyzes a labor market, where: workers can acquire an observable skill at no cost, firms differ in unobserved productivity, workers' skill and firms' productivity are substitutes, and firms' search is directed. The main result is that, if the entry cost of firms is small, no worker acquires the skill in the unique equilibrium. For intermediate entry costs, a positive measure of workers obtain the skill, and the number of skilled workers goes to one as entry costs become large. Welfare is highest when the entry cost is high. (JEL D21, D24, D82, D83, J24)

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

26

Haq, Mirajul, Iftikhar Ahmad, and Bisma Hafeez. "Workers’ Social Capital and Firms’ Output Performance: Empirical Evidence from Small and Medium Firms." Forman Journal of Economic Studies 15 (December 30, 2019): 259–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.32368/fjes.20191512.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

27

Ray, Korok. "The Retention Effect of Withholding Performance Information." Accounting Review 82, no. 2 (2007): 389–425. http://dx.doi.org/10.2308/accr.2007.82.2.389.

Full text

Abstract:

It is a common practice for firms to conduct performance evaluations of their employees and yet to withhold this information from those employees. This paper argues that firms strategically withhold performance information to retain workers. In particular, if the worker enjoys high outside options and is tempted to quit, then the firm chooses not to reveal his performance information in order to keep him on the job. The firm's equilibrium strategy is to fire if performance is sufficiently low, reveal information if performance is sufficiently high, and withhold information otherwise. The pooli

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

28

Bates, Timothy. "Do Black-Owned Businesses Employ Minority Workers? New Evidence." Review of Black Political Economy 16, no. 4 (1988): 51–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02892165.

Full text

Abstract:

Most of the workers employed by black-owned businesses are minorities. This pattern typifies small firms as well as large firms, firms in blue collar industries such as construction as well as in white collar industries such as finance. The hypothesis that reliance upon minority workers may restrict the viability of black firms is tested and rejected; there appears to be no relationship between firm viability and labor force racial composition.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

29

Brown, Jason L., Patrick R. Martin, Donald V. Moser, and Roberto A. Weber. "The Consequences of Hiring Lower-Wage Workers in an Incomplete-Contract Environment." Accounting Review 90, no. 3 (2014): 941–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.2308/accr-50959.

Full text

Abstract:

ABSTRACT Firms frequently attempt to increase profits by replacing some existing workers with new lower-wage workers. However, this strategy may be ineffective in an incomplete-contract environment because the new workers may provide lower effort in response to their lower wages, and hiring new lower-wage workers may damage the remaining original workers' reciprocal relationship with the firm. We conduct an experiment to examine this issue and find that when new lower-wage workers become available, firms hire them to replace original higher-wage workers and pay the new workers lower wages. How

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

30

Moretti, Luca, Martin Mayerl, Samuel Muehlemann, Peter Schlögl, and Stefan C. Wolter. "So similar and yet so different." Evidence-based HRM: a Global Forum for Empirical Scholarship 7, no. 2 (2019): 229–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ebhrm-08-2018-0047.

Full text

Abstract:

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to compare a firm’s net cost and post-apprenticeship benefits of providing apprenticeship training in Austria and Switzerland: two countries with many similarities but some critical institutional differences. Design/methodology/approach The authors draw on detailed workplace data with information on the costs and benefits of apprenticeship training, as well as on hiring costs for skilled workers from the external labour market. The authors use nearest-neighbour matching models to compare Austrian firms with similar Swiss firms based on observable characteri

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

31

Cornelißen, Thomas, and Olaf Hübler. "Unobserved Individual and Firm Heterogeneity in Wage and Job-Duration Functions: Evidence from German Linked Employer–Employee Data." German Economic Review 12, no. 4 (2011): 469–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0475.2010.00528.x.

Full text

Abstract:

AbstractWe analyse the correlations between individual and firm fixed effects, and wage and job-duration functions. Our results for large firms suggest that low-wage firms tend to be stable firms, suggesting that lower wages can buy job stability. Furthermore, high-wage workers sort into the stable low-wage firms. Our interpretation is that high-wage workers have a higher wage to insure against job loss and can afford more easily to forgo wages in favour of job stability. This may provide an explanation of the puzzle identified in previous literature that high-wage workers are matched to low-w

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

32

Kerr, Sari Pekkala, and William R. Kerr. "Immigration and Employer Transitions for STEM Workers." American Economic Review 103, no. 3 (2013): 193–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/aer.103.3.193.

Full text

Abstract:

The firm is almost entirely absent from models of immigration, and yet firms play a central role for high-skilled immigration. The H-1B visa program, for example, is a firm-sponsored entry where firms are responsible for every stage: from identifying the immigrant, to employing them, to filing for permanent residency on behalf of the immigrant. This central role of firms for high-skilled immigration suggests the traditional lens for evaluating the impact of immigration on natives through local area labor markets or national age-education approaches may miss important dynamics. We analyze the e

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

33

Sampson, Thomas. "Selection into Trade and Wage Inequality." American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 6, no. 3 (2014): 157–202. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/mic.6.3.157.

Full text

Abstract:

This paper analyzes how intra-industry trade affects the wage distribution when both workers and firms are heterogeneous. Positive assortative matching between worker skill and firm technology generates an employer size-wage premium and an exporter wage premium. Fixed export costs cause the selection of advanced technology, high-skill firms into exporting, and trade shifts the firm technology distribution upwards. Consequently, trade increases skill demand and wage inequality in all countries, both on aggregate and within the upper tail of the wage distribution. This holds when firms receive r

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

34

Hu, Luojia. "The Hiring Decisions and Compensation Structures of Large Firms." ILR Review 56, no. 4 (2003): 663–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/001979390305600407.

Full text

Abstract:

This paper investigates differences between large and small firms in new hires' ages and in compensation structures. An analysis of data from the Benefits Supplement to the Current Population Survey (CPS) shows that large firms hired younger workers than small firms and awarded starting wages that discriminated less between young and older workers. Most strikingly, the well-known wage premium associated with employment in large firms did not obtain for white-collar workers who were hired at age 35 or older, due to large firms' preference for younger new hires. Another finding is that wage grow

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

35

Benson, Alan, Danielle Li, and Kelly Shue. "Promotions and the Peter Principle*." Quarterly Journal of Economics 134, no. 4 (2019): 2085–134. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjz022.

Full text

Abstract:

AbstractThe best worker is not always the best candidate for manager. In these cases, do firms promote the best potential manager or the best worker in their current job? Using microdata on the performance of sales workers at 131 firms, we find evidence consistent with the Peter Principle, which proposes that firms prioritize current job performance in promotion decisions at the expense of other observable characteristics that better predict managerial performance. We estimate that the costs of promoting workers with lower managerial potential are high, suggesting either that firms are making

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

36

Lee, Bokwon, Joowoong Park, and Jae-Suk Yang. "Do older workers really reduce firm productivity?" Economic and Labour Relations Review 29, no. 4 (2018): 521–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1035304618811008.

Full text

Abstract:

In this article, we examine the effect of workforce ageing on company productivity, using an analysis based on Korean firms. We found that an increase in the ratio of workers aged over 50 years to total workers had a negative effect on value added per worker, which was consistent with the findings of most previous studies based on European data. However, the results of the analysis, including various classifications such as size, industry and several financial conditions, revealed that an increase in the ratio of older workers had positive effects on value added per worker in large manufacturi

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

37

Diaz, Ana Maria, and Luz Magdalena Salas. "Do firms redline workers?" Regional Science and Urban Economics 83 (July 2020): 103541. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2020.103541.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

38

Major, Guy, and Jonathan Preminger. "Overcoming the capital investment hurdle in worker-controlled firms." Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership 2, no. 2 (2019): 133–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jpeo-01-2019-0001.

Full text

Abstract:

Purpose Both the academic literature and practitioners have long noted the need for an equity investment mechanism for worker-controlled firms that alleviates investor anxieties without undermining internal workplace democracy. The purpose of this paper is to outline one such possible mechanism. Design/methodology/approach The proposal locks together the interests of workers and external investors, via non-voting shares with dividends set by a pre-agreed value-added sharing formula. Each worker is paid a base wage, with the average across the firm being a pre-defined multiple of the national m

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

39

Devicienti, Francesco, Elena Grinza, Alessandro Manello, and Davide Vannoni. "What Are the Benefits of Having More Female Leaders? Evidence from the Use of Part-Time Work in Italy." ILR Review 72, no. 4 (2018): 897–926. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0019793918800287.

Full text

Abstract:

Using three waves of a representative survey of Italian private firms, the authors explore the impact of female managers on a firm’s use of part-time work. Building on a literature that suggests female leaders display relatively more altruistic values compared to their male counterparts, the authors assess whether these differences manifest themselves in relation to working time arrangements offered by firms. Results, robust to controls for several time-varying firm-level characteristics and unobserved fixed firm heterogeneity, indicate that female managers are significantly more likely to lim

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

40

Arnold, N. Scott. "Further Thoughts on the Degeneration of Market Socialism: A Reply to Schweickart." Economics and Philosophy 3, no. 2 (1987): 320–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266267100002959.

Full text

Abstract:

David Schweickart has challenged a number of claims that are central to my argument that market socialism would probably degenerate into something only nominally distinguishable from capitalism. Chief among these is the claim that competitive pressures would force the workers in a worker-controlled firm to create pay and authority differentials that would make such firms structurally homologous to capitalist firms. Schweickart challenges this on two fronts: He argues that there is no good reason to believe that market forces under market socialism would create the pay and authority differentia

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

41

Levy, Santiago, and Luis F. López-Calva. "Persistent Misallocation and the Returns to Education in Mexico." World Bank Economic Review 34, no. 2 (2018): 284–311. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/wber/lhy017.

Full text

Abstract:

Abstract Over the last two decades, Mexico has experienced macroeconomic stability, an open trade regime, and substantial progress in education. Yet average workers’ earnings have stagnated, and earnings of those with higher schooling have fallen, compressing the earnings distribution and lowering the returns to education. This paper argues that distortions that misallocate resources toward less-productive firms explain these phenomena, because these firms are less intensive in well-educated workers compared with more-productive ones. It shows that while the relative supply of workers with mor

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

42

Hirsch, Boris, Elke J. Jahn, and Claus Schnabel. "Do Employers Have More Monopsony Power in Slack Labor Markets?" ILR Review 71, no. 3 (2017): 676–704. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0019793917720383.

Full text

Abstract:

This article confronts monopsony theory’s predictions regarding workers’ wages with observed wage patterns over the business cycle. Using German administrative data for the years 1985 to 2010 and an estimation framework based on duration models, the authors construct a time series of the labor supply elasticity to the firm and estimate its relationship to the unemployment rate. They find that firms possess more monopsony power during economic downturns. Half of this cyclicality stems from workers’ job separations being less wage driven when unemployment rises, and the other half mirrors that f

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

43

NGUYEN, KIEN TRUNG, and ERIC D. RAMSTETTER. "OWNERSHIP-RELATED WAGE DIFFERENTIALS BY OCCUPATION IN VIETNAMESE MANUFACTURING." Singapore Economic Review 64, no. 03 (2019): 625–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0217590818500303.

Full text

Abstract:

This paper examines ownership-related wage differentials for four types of workers employed by medium–large (20 or more employees) wholly foreign multinational enterprises (WFs), joint-venture multinationals (JVs), state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and domestic private firms in Vietnamese manufacturing in 2009. When all sample firms were combined, unconditional JV-private and WF-private wage differentials were 106–124% for managers, 78–87% for professionals and technicians, 56–68% for clerical and support workers and 22–48% for production workers. Correspondingly, conditional wage differentials w

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

44

Burks, Stephen V., Bo Cowgill, Mitchell Hoffman, and Michael Housman. "The Value of Hiring through Employee Referrals *." Quarterly Journal of Economics 130, no. 2 (2015): 805–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjv010.

Full text

Abstract:

Abstract Using personnel data from nine large firms in three industries (call centers, trucking, and high-tech), we empirically assess the benefit to firms of hiring through employee referrals. Compared to nonreferred applicants, referred applicants are more likely to be hired and more likely to accept offers, even though referrals and nonreferrals have similar skill characteristics. Referred workers tend to have similar productivity compared to nonreferred workers on most measures, but referred workers have lower accident rates in trucking and produce more patents in high-tech. Referred worke

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

45

Lengfeld, Holger, and Clemens Ohlert. "Do internal labour markets protect the unskilled from low payment? Evidence from Germany." International Journal of Manpower 36, no. 6 (2015): 874–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijm-01-2014-0033.

Full text

Abstract:

Purpose – Up to date, it remains an unresolved issue how firms shape inequality in interaction with mechanisms of stratification at the individual and occupational-level. Accordingly, the authors ask whether workers of different occupational classes are affected to different degrees by between-firm wage inequality. In light of the recent rise of overall wage inequality, answers to this question can contribute to a better understanding of the role firms play in this development. The authors argue and empirically test that whether workers are able to benefit from firms’ internal or external stra

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

46

Davidson, Carl, Fredrik Heyman, Steven Matusz, Fredrik Sjöholm, and Susan Chun Zhu. "Liberalized Trade and Worker-Firm Matching." American Economic Review 102, no. 3 (2012): 429–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/aer.102.3.429.

Full text

Abstract:

Recent theoretical analysis suggests that a reduction in the cost of exporting increases the degree of assortative matching between workers and firms in export-oriented industries. Changes that reduce the cost of imports have an ambiguous impact on matching. We combine detailed Swedish matched worker-firm data from 1995-2005 with tariff data to test these hypotheses. The data cover 94 sectors subject to international competition and include all firms with at least 20 employees. Our findings strongly support the theoretical predictions.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

47

Mailath, George J., and Andrew Postlewaite. "Workers Versus Firms: Bargaining Over a Firm's Value." Review of Economic Studies 57, no. 3 (1990): 369. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2298019.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

48

Arellano-Bover, Jaime. "Who Gets Their First Job at a Large Firm? The Distinct Roles of Education and Skills." AEA Papers and Proceedings 111 (May 1, 2021): 465–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/pandp.20211009.

Full text

Abstract:

Young workers' early years in the labor market are a key and formative time. Using data from 31 countries, this article documents the selection of labor market entrants into large firms, which existing literature associates with propitious environments for young workers. The young and inexperienced are underrepresented at large firms compared to experienced and older workers. Entrants who do get their first job at large firms are positively selected in terms of education and cognitive skills. The patterns of large-firm selection (i.e., importance of education vs. skills) somewhat differ betwee

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

49

Young-Hyman, Trevor. "Cooperating without Co-laboring." Administrative Science Quarterly 62, no. 1 (2016): 179–214. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0001839216655090.

Full text

Abstract:

I examine how different distributions of ownership and governance rights in firms affect the optimal organization of cross-functional project teams for knowledge-intensive work. I analyze multi-method data from two competing automated manufacturing equipment engineering firms with contrasting formal power structures, one a worker cooperative with ownership and governance rights distributed across occupations and the other a conventional firm with ownership and governance rights concentrated in the hands of several senior workers in one occupational group. Contrary to prior research, my finding

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

50

Ab Wahab, Mastura, and Ekrem Tatoglu. "Chasing productivity demands, worker well-being, and firm performance." Personnel Review 49, no. 9 (2020): 1823–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/pr-01-2019-0026.

Full text

Abstract:

PurposeThis study aims to examine the impact of chasing productivity demands on worker well-being and firm performance in manufacturing firms in Malaysia. Flexible work arrangements and human resources support are used as moderators to mitigate the adverse impacts associated with chasing productivity demands.Design/methodology/approachData were collected from 213 workers from manufacturing firms through a survey questionnaire utilizing structural equation modeling.FindingsThe findings of the study show that flexible work arrangements play a significant role in moderating the relationship betwe

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

We offer discounts on all premium plans for authors whose works are included in thematic literature selections. Contact us to get a unique promo code!