Work organization and preferences dynamics

Victor Hiller

Documents de travail du Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne from Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1), Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne

Abstract: We present a model with intergenerational transmission of preferences providing a joint explanation of preference evolution and of work organization changes in a society. We focus on the preference for autonomy, defined as an individual's degree of initiative and the value they attach to self direction. We show that the economy has several steady states with different levels of worker autonomy and of the degree of coercion in the work place. The Industrial Revolution and the recent return of flexible forms of organization enable us to illustrate the existence of organizational path dependency. Indeed, the current technological shocks, impacting on the long-run distribution of preferences, modify the future possibilities of adoption of new organizational forms

Keywords: Cultural transmission; work organization; industrial revolution; historical path dependency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L16 L23 Z10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28 pages
Date: 2007-08
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Published in European Economc Review, 55, (7), 2011, pp.1007-1025

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