Learning about the nature of production from equilibrium assignment patterns
| Autor: | Thomas N. Hubbard, Luis Garicano |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Economics and Econometrics Earnings Exploit business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Distribution (economics) Production function Microeconomics Complementarity (molecular biology) Economics Key (cryptography) Production (economics) Function (engineering) business media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 84:136-153 |
| ISSN: | 0167-2681 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jebo.2012.07.007 |
| Popis: | This paper exploits empirically a key insight from Lucas (1978) and Rosen (1982): that the organization of production and the distribution of earnings across individuals are jointly determined by the equilibrium assignment of individuals to firms and hierarchical positions. We study how different classes of production functions generate alternative equilibrium assignments. We then use confidential Census data on U.S. law offices to investigate the form that the production function should take to rationalize earnings patterns in legal services. We argue that earnings patterns in this industry are consistent with a production function that is characterized by asymmetric sensitivity to the skill of agents in different organizational positions, complementarity between managers' and workers' skill, and scale effects in individual skill. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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