Rigidität durch Flexibilität: flexible Arbeit und das Wachstum von Managementbürokratien

Alfred Kleinknecht, Zenlin Kwee () and Lilyana Budyanto ()

Wirtschaftsdienst, 2015, vol. 95, issue 12, 851-856

Abstract: Flexibility in labour markets increases transaction costs. Using organisation-level data representative for the Netherlands, we show that firms have higher shares of managers in their personnel if they employ more flexible workers. This fits to earlier observations that Anglo-Saxon countries with flexible labour markets have substantially thicker management bureaucracies than “Rhineland” countries with more regulated labour markets. We also find that percentages of managers in younger firms do not differ from those in older firms, while smaller firms have relatively more managers than larger firms. Moreover, not-for-profit and government organisations have relatively thinner management bureaucracies than private firms. Copyright ZBW and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015

Keywords: J53; J82; M12; M54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/s10273-015-1913-9

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