Management and Shocks to Worker Productivity

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Adhvaryu, Achyuta; Kala, Namrata; Nyshadham, Anant
• 署名单位: University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Center for Economic & Policy Research (CEPR); University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; National Bureau of Economic Research
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-3808
• DOI: 10.1086/717046
• 发表日期: 2022
• 页码: 1-47
• 关键词: SHORT-TERM EXPOSURE; air-pollution; inflammatory responses; DIESEL EXHAUST; blood-pressure; incentives; particles; fine; allocation; IMPACT

摘要

We study how managers mitigate the negative impacts of environmental shocks. Pairing productivity data from a garment firm with granular measures of air pollution, we show that productivity suffers as a result of pollution shocks but that managers respond by reallocating particularly sensitive workers to improve worker-to-task matches, thus mitigating team productivity losses. Responses are smaller for more inattentive managers; these same managers are also least able to mitigate productivity declines. These patterns are confirmed by leveraging variation in opportunities for reallocation and comparing how close managers of differing attentiveness can get to the simulated production frontier by reallocating workers.