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Can Labor Regulation Hinder Economic Performance? Evidence from India
Besley, Timothy; Burgess, Robin - London School of Economics and Political Science
This paper investigates whether the industrial relations climate inIndian states has affected the pattern of manufacturing growthin the period 1958-92. We show that states which ammendedthe Industrial Disputes Act in a pro-worker direction experiencedlowered output, employment, investment and...
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Social Connections and Incentives in the Workplace: Evidence from Personnel Data
Bandiera, Oriana; Barankay, Iwan; Rasul, Imran - London School of Economics and Political Science; … - 2006
. To evaluate whether the existence of social connections isbeneficial to the firm’s overall performance, we explore how … connectedirrespective of the worker’s ability, but when they are paid performance bonuses, they targettheir effort towards high ability … performance of connected workers,we find that favoring connected workers is detrimental for the firm’s overall performance.[...] …
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Social Incentives in the Workplace
Bandiera, Oriana; Barankay, Iwan; Rasul, Imran - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009
%.The distribution of worker ability is such that the net effect of social incentives on the firm’saggregate performance is …
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Organizing for Synergies
Garicano, Luis - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2010
Large companies are usually organized into business units, yet some activitiesare almost always centralized in a company-wide functional unit. We firstshow that organizations endogenously create an incentive conflict between functionalmanagers (who desire excessive standardization) and...
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Towards a Microeconomics of Growth
Burgess, Robin; Venables, Anthony - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003
divide the factors that determine a location’s growth performance into two groups, that we term ‘1st advantage’ and ‘2nd …
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The World Technology Frontier
Caselli, Francesco; Coleman, Wilbur John - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006
We study cross-country differences in the aggregate production function whenskilled and unskilled labor are imperfect substitutes. We find that there is a skill biasin cross-country technology differences. Higher-income countries use skilled labormore efficiently than lower-income countries,...
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The Distinct Effects of Information Technology and Communication Technology on Firm Organization
Bloom, Nick; Garicano, Luis; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009
Empirical studies on information communication technologies (ICT) typically aggregate the“information” and “communication” components together. We show theoretically and empirically thatthese have very different effects on the empowerment of employees, and by extension on wageinequality....
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