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| Title: | | The division of labor within firms  |
| Authors: | | Lindbeck, Assar Snower, Dennis J. |
| Issue Date: | | 1997 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Seminar paper / Institute for International Economic Studies 628 |
| Abstract: | | The paper examines the determinants of the division of labor within firms. It provides an explanation of the pervasive change in work organization away from the traditional functional departments and towards multi-tasking and job rotation. Whereas the existing literature on the division of labor within firms emphasizes the returns from specialization and the need for coordination of the work of different workers, the present analysis focuses on the returns from multi-tasking, which is shown to arise from informational and technological complementarities among tasks as well as from the exploitation of the versatility of human capital. |
| Subjects: | | division of labor specialization multi-tasking organization of work technological change information flows |
| JEL: | | J23 J24 L23 M12 O33 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Publikationen von Forscherinnen und Forschern des IfW Economists Online
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