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Flexible Workplace Practices and Labor Productivity
Bauer, Thomas K. - 2003
Using a German employer-employee matched panel data set this paper examines the effects of High Performance Workplace Systems (HPWSs) on labor productivity (defined as sales per worker) and labor efficiency (defined as the inverse of unit labor costs). The estimation results indicate that simple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262099
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High Performance Workplace Practices and Job Satisfaction: Evidence from Europe
Bauer, Thomas K. - 2004
Using individual data from the European Survey on Working Conditions (ESWC) covering all EU member states, this study …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278986
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Cognitive Performance in the Home Office - Evidence from Professional Chess
Künn, Steffen; Seel, Christian; Zegners, Dainis - 2020
During the recent COVID-19 pandemic, traditional (offline) chess tournaments were prohibited and instead held online. We exploit this as a unique setting to assess the impact of moving offline tasks online on the cognitive performance of individuals. We use the Artificial Intelligence embodied...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270169
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Corporate Hierarchies under Employee Representation
Belloc, Filippo; Burdin, Gabriel; Landini, Fabio - 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/10012322516
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Flexible Workplace Practices and Labor Productivity
Bauer, Thomas K. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
Using a German employer-employee matched panel data set this paper examines the effects of High Performance Workplace Systems (HPWSs) on labor productivity (defined as sales per worker) and labor efficiency (defined as the inverse of unit labor costs). The estimation results indicate that simple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763599
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High Performance Workplace Practices and Job Satisfaction: Evidence from Europe
Bauer, Thomas K. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Using individual data from the European Survey on Working Conditions (ESWC) covering all EU member states, this study …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700869
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Self-Employment Within the Firm
Bassi, Vittorio; Lee, Jay; Peter, Alessandra; Porzio, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We collect time-use data for entrepreneurs and their workers in over 1,000 manufacturing firms in urban Uganda. We document limited labor specialization within the firm for establishments of all sizes and argue that this is likely due to the prevalence of product customization. We then develop a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014372497
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Artificial Intelligence and Reduced SMEs' Business Risks. A Dynamic Capabilities Analysis during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Drydakis, Nick - 2022
The study utilises the International Labor Organization's SMEs COVID-19 pandemic business risks scale to determine … whether Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications are associated with reduced business risks for SMEs. A new 10-item scale was … collected from 317 SMEs between April and June 2020, with follow-up data gathered between October and December 2020 in London …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013177706
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Peer Networks and Entrepreneurship: A Pan-African RCT
Vega-Redondo, Fernando; Pin, Paolo; Ubfal, Diego; … - 2019
Can large-scale peer interaction foster entrepreneurship and innovation? We conducted an RCT involving almost 5 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180041
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The Impact of COVID-19 on US Firms
Bloom, Nicholas; Fletcher, Robert S.; Yeh, Ethan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We use survey data on an opt-in panel of around 2,500 US small businesses to assess the impact of COVID-19. We find a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482532