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Flexible Workplace Practices and Labor Productivity

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dc.creator Bauer, Thomas K.
dc.date 2003
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T07:11:35Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T07:11:35Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20637
dc.identifier ppn:36204757X
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/20637
dc.description 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 cross-sectional estimates of the effects of implementing HPWSs on labor productivity are biased downward due to unobserved time-invariant establishment effects and the endogeneity of the used measure for innovative workplace practices. The latter bias appears to be quantitatively more important. Results from estimating a correlated random coefficient model further suggest that a potential bias in the 2SLS-estimates due to self-selection seems to be negligible. The estimated effects of HPWSs on labor productivity are economically important and rising over time. However, corresponding positive effects of HPWSs on labor efficiency occur only in the long run. Finally, due to rising wages associated with the adoption of HPWSs, the effects of these systems on labor efficiency are smaller than the corresponding effects on labor productivity.
dc.language eng
dc.publisher
dc.relation IZA Discussion paper series 700
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject M11
dc.subject L23
dc.subject J5
dc.subject J24
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject linked-employer-employee data set
dc.subject high performance workplace organization
dc.subject instrumental variables
dc.subject correlated random coefficient model
dc.subject Arbeitsorganisation
dc.subject Flexibilität
dc.subject Kooperative Führung
dc.subject Arbeitsproduktivität
dc.subject Schätzung
dc.subject Bias
dc.subject Deutschland
dc.title Flexible Workplace Practices and Labor Productivity
dc.type doc-type:workingPaper


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