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Restructuring Production and Work

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  • Lindbeck, Assar

    () (Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University)

  • Snower, Dennis J.

    () (Department of Economics, Birkbeck College)

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The paper analyzes the contemporary organizational restructuring of production and work and derives some salient implications for the labor market. The analysis focuses on the switch from occupational specialization at “Tayloristic” organizations to multi-tasking at “holistic” organizations. The restructuring process is shown to create demands for new combinations of skills and thereby resegment” the labor market, raising the wages and job opportunities of some workers relative to others.

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Paper provided by Stockholm University, Institute for International Economic Studies in its series Seminar Papers with number 602.

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Length: 39 pages
Date of creation: 30 Oct 1997
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Handle: RePEc:hhs:iiessp:0602

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Keywords: Restructuring of firms; technological change; information flows; employment; labor market segmentation;

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  1. Lindbeck, A. & Snower, D.J., 1995. "Reorganization of Firms and Labor Market Inequality," Research Institute of Industrial Economics Working Papers 448, Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN).
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  1. Lindbeck, Assar & Snower, Dennis J., 1997. "Reorganization of Firms and Labor Market Inequality," Seminar Papers 605, Stockholm University, Institute for International Economic Studies.
  2. Dennis Snower, 1996. "The modern welfare state: Problems and suggested reforms," Empirica, Springer, vol. 23(3), pages 207-226, October.
  3. Berthold, Norbert & Fehn, Rainer, 1999. "Aggressive Lohnpolitik, überschießende Kapitalintensität und steigende Arbeitslosigkeit: können Investivlöhne für Abhilfe sorgen?," Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Beiträge 28, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Lehrstuhl für Volkswirtschaftslehre, insbes. Wirtschaftsordnung und Sozialpolitik.
  4. Hans Gersbach, 1999. "Product market competition, unemployment and income disparities," Review of World Economics (Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv), Springer, vol. 135(2), pages 221-240, June.
  5. Lindbeck, A & Snower, D-J, 1996. "Centralized Bargaining, Multi-Tasking, and Work Incentives," Papers 620, Stockholm - International Economic Studies.
  6. Gersbach, Hans & Schniewind, Achim, 2002. "Uneven Technical Progress and Unemployment," IZA Discussion Papers 478, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
  7. Andreas Hornstein & Per Krusell, 1996. "Can Technology Improvements Cause Productivity Slowdowns?," NBER Chapters, in: NBER Macroeconomics Annual 1996, Volume 11, pages 209-276 National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  8. Snower, Dennis J., 1999. "Inequality of Earnings," CEPR Discussion Papers 2321, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  9. Snower, Dennis J., 1999. "Causes of Changing Earnings Inequality," IZA Discussion Papers 29, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).

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