Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/81516 
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Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
IFN Working Paper No. 963
Publisher: 
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Stockholm
Abstract: 
I study the internal organization of firms using occupation data on workers in Swedish manufacturing firms. Firms with more layers are larger in size, in value added, and they pay higher wages. Firms are hierarchal in that lower layers have more workers and lower mean wage than higher layers. Adding layers is associated with increases in mean firm size/value added and decreases in mean firm wages (at pre-existing layers). The reverse holds for removing layers. This result also holds for layer by layer mean size and wages for a majority of pre-existing layers.
Subjects: 
Hierarchies
Organizations
Occupations
Wages
Productivity
JEL: 
D22
D24
J31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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