Asymmetric information about workers' productivity as a cause for inefficient long working hours

Sousa‐Poza, Alfonso; Ziegler, Alexandre

doi:10.1016/s0927-5371(03)00016-2

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“…Previous research has shown a positive correlation between productivity and working hours (Sousa-Poza & Ziegler, 2003). We included a variable that indicates employee working hours.…”

Section: Working Hoursmentioning

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Environmental standards and labor productivity: Understanding the mechanisms that sustain sustainability

2012

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Summary In the last decade, a rising number of firms have adopted voluntary international environmental management and product standards, such as the international ISO 14001 management standard or organic certification. Although emerging research analyzes the impact of these standards on environmental and financial performance, there is to our knowledge no empirical research on how they affect the productivity of employees. In this paper, we investigate the direct relationship between environmental standards and labor productivity, as well as two mediating mechanisms through which environmental standards influence labor productivity: employee training and enhanced interpersonal contacts within the firm. Our empirical results, based on a French employer–employee survey from 5220 firms, reveal that firms that have adopted environmental standards enjoy a one standard deviation higher labor productivity than firms that have not adopted such standards. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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“…Previous research has shown a positive correlation between productivity and working hours (Sousa-Poza & Ziegler, 2003). We included a variable that indicates employee working hours.…”

Section: Working Hoursmentioning

confidence: 99%

Environmental standards and labor productivity: Understanding the mechanisms that sustain sustainability

2012

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“…Highly productive workers will choose to work inefficiently long hours (Sousa-Poza and Ziegler, 2003), choosing to perform extra work, face-time, or presenteeism, beyond the standard or norm of a job or workplace, as a way to signal future promotability. Many employers may create a few shorter-hour jobs, as a way to screen out potentially less productive workers (Rebitzer and Taylor, 1995).…”

Section: Work As Forward-looking Investments In Future Wage Growth Trmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Brief History of Long Work Time and the Contemporary Sources of Overwork

Golden

2008

J Bus Ethics

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“…Examples of work featuring the decomposition of effects into extensive and intensive margins include estimates of the effect of benefit-receiving on food expenditure (Hastings and Washington, 2010), the effect of various variables on intra-and inter-firm trade (Co, 2010), the effect of employer contributions on employee pension savings (Engelhardt and Kumar, 2007) the effect of worker productivity or unionization on working overtime (Sousa-Poza andZiegler, 2003, andTrejo, 1993, respectively), the effect of managers' tax evasion preferences on underreporting corporate income (Joulfaian, 2000), the effect of various regressors on youth unemployment (Caspi et al 1998), and the effect of health knowledge on health outcomes 2 (Kenkel, 1991). The list is neither complete nor representative, but it is suggestive of the widespread use of the decomposition in corner solution applications.…”

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A Causal Interpretation of Extensive and Intensive Margin Effects in Generalized Tobit Models

Staub

2014

Review of Economics and Statistics

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Abstract:The usual decomposition of effects in corner solution models into extensive and intensive margins is generally incompatible with a causal interpretation. This paper proposes a decomposition based on the joint distribution of potential outcomes which is meaningful in a causal sense. The difference between decompositions can be substantial and yield diametrically opposed results, as shown in a standard Tobit model example. In a generalized Tobit application exploring the effect of reducing firm entry regulation on bilateral trade flows between countries, estimates suggest that using the usual decomposition would overstate the contribution of the extensive margin by around 15%.

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Asymmetric information about workers' productivity as a cause for inefficient long working hours

Cited by 42 publications

References 17 publications

Environmental standards and labor productivity: Understanding the mechanisms that sustain sustainability

Environmental standards and labor productivity: Understanding the mechanisms that sustain sustainability

A Brief History of Long Work Time and the Contemporary Sources of Overwork

A Causal Interpretation of Extensive and Intensive Margin Effects in Generalized Tobit Models

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