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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The End of Inequality? Effects of Work Reorganization Amid Resurgent Worker Power
DESCRIPTION:High-paying factory jobs in the 1940s were an engine of egalitarian economic growth for a generation. Are there alternate forms of work organization that deliver similar benefits for frontline workers? Work organization varies by types of complexity and their degree of employer control. Technical and tacit knowledge tasks receive higher pay for signaling or developing human capital. Higher autonomy tasks elicit efficiency wages. To test these ideas\, we match administrative earnings to task descriptions from job postings. We then compare earnings for workers hired into the same occupation and firm\, but under different task allocations. When jobs raise task complexity and autonomy\, new hires' starting earnings increase and grow faster. However\, while half the earnings boost from complex\, technical tasks is due to shifting worker selection\, worker selection changes less for tacit knowledge tasks and very little for adding high autonomy tasks. We also study which employers provide these jobs: frontline tacit knowledge tasks are disproportionately in larger\, profitable manufacturing and retail firms\; technical tasks are in newer health and business services\; and higher autonomy jobs are in smaller and fast-growing firms. These results demonstrate how organization-level allocations of tasks can undergird high-paying jobs for frontline workers.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/109977
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STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Activism,Business,Corporate,Culture,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,Organizational Studies
LOCATION:Ross School of Business - R0240
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