How workers fare when employers innovate

Sandra Black, Anya Krivelyova and Lisa Lynch

No 2003-22, Working Paper Series from Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Abstract: Complementing existing work on firm organizational structure and productivity, this paper examines the impact of organizational change on workers. We find evidence that employers do appear to compensate at least some of their workers for engaging in high performance workplace practices. We also find a significant association between high performance workplace practices and increased wage inequality. Finally, we examine the relationship between organizational structure and employment changes and find that some practices, such as self-managed teams, are associated with greater employment reductions, while other practices, such as the percentage of workers involved in job rotation, are associated with lower employment reductions.

Keywords: Productivity; Employment (Economic theory) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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Published in Industrial Relations: a Journal of Economy and Society, Vol. 43, No. 1, pp. 44-66, January 2004

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