@techreport{Lindbeck1995Restructuring,
abstract = {The paper analyzes the contemporary organizational restructuring of
production and work and derives some salient implications for the labor market. The
analysis focuses on the switch from occupational specialization at \textquotedblleft{}Tayloristic\textquotedblright{}
organizations to multi-tasking at \textquotedblleft{}holistic\textquotedblright{} organizations. The restructuring process is
shown to create demands for new combinations of skills and thereby \textquotedblleft{}resegment\textquotedblright{} the
labor market, raising the wages and job opportunities of some workers relative to
others.
We are indebted to Michael Orszag for his insightful comments, and have benefited
from the suggestions of Ruth Klinov, Reuben Gronau, Eric Mellander, Torsten
Persson, Jorgen Weibull, and seminar participants at the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem, the Industrial Institute for Economic and Social Research (Stockholm), and
the Institute for International Economic Studies (Stockholm). We have profited from
discussions with Solveig Wikstrom on the reorganization of firms, and are grateful to
Jorgen Nilsson for drawing the figures.},
address = {Stockholm},
author = {Assar Lindbeck and Dennis J. Snower},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {J23; J24; L23; M12; O33; 330; Restructuring of firms; technological change; information flows; employment; labor market segmentation},
language = {eng},
number = {602},
publisher = {Inst. for Internat. Economic Studies},
title = {Restructuring production and work},
type = {Seminar paper / Institute for International Economic Studies},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/877},
year = {1995}
}
