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| Title: | | Workforce reorganization and the worker  |
| Authors: | | Kriechel, Ben Pfann, Gerard A. |
| Issue Date: | | 2011 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Discussion paper series // Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 5794 |
| Abstract: | | In this paper we study the joint decision process of changing the structure of jobs and laying off individual workers in a firm that downsizes its workforce. A hierarchical decision model is proposed and estimated using personnel data from a firm in demise comparing the characteristics of the individual workers and the structure of the firm's labour force before and after its reorganization. Our results show that workers in jobs in the top levels of each skill group's hierarchy are better protected against downsizing due to larger productivity shocks and larger firing costs. |
| Subjects: | | hierarchies restructuring control span job displacement |
| JEL: | | J63 J65 L23 L60 L93 M51 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-201106224753 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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