Making do with less: Working harder during recessions.

Autor/inn/en	Lazear, Edward P.; Shaw, Kathryn L.; Stanton, Christopher
Institution	Centre for Economic Performance
Titel	Making do with less: Working harder during recessions. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Mehr erreichen mit weniger Arbeitskräften: Härter arbeiten während Rezessionen.
Quelle	London (2014), 41 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	CEP discussion paper. 1321
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
ISSN	2042-2695
Schlagwörter	Produktivitätseffekt; Rezession; Arbeitsleistung; Arbeitslosenquote; Arbeitsproduktivität; Beschäftigungsstruktur; Qualifikationsstruktur; Regionaler Arbeitsmarkt; Dienstleistungsbereich; Informationstechnischer Beruf; USA
Abstract	There are two obvious possibilities that can account for the rise in productivity during recent recessions. The first is that the decline in the workforce was not random, and that the average worker was of higher quality during the recession than in the preceding period. The second is that each worker produced more while holding worker quality constant. We call the second effect, 'making do with less,' that is, getting more effort from fewer workers. Using data spanning June 2006 to May 2010 on individual worker productivity from a large firm, it is possible to measure the increase in productivity due to effort and sorting. For this firm, the second effect - that workers' effort increases - dominates the first effect - that the composition of the workforce differs over the business cycle (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2015/2