Workforce Reorganization and the Worker

Ben Kriechel and Gerard Pfann

No 5794, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

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.

Keywords: job displacement; control span; restructuring; hierarchies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J63 J65 L23 L60 L93 M51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 pages
Date: 2011-06
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-bec, nep-hrm and nep-lab
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Published - published in: Applied Economics, 2013, 45 (13), 1719-1729

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