The Anatomy of French Production Hierarchies

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Caliendo, Lorenzo; Monte, Ferdinando; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban
• 署名单位: Yale University; Johns Hopkins University; Princeton University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-3808
• DOI: 10.1086/681641
• 发表日期: 2015
• 页码: 809-852
• 关键词: organization; FIRMS; KNOWLEDGE; countries; IMPACT; TRADE; panel; size

摘要

We study the internal organization of French manufacturing firms. We divide the employees of each firm into layers using occupational categories. Layers are hierarchical in that the typical worker in a higher layer earns more, and the typical firm occupies less of them. The probability of adding/dropping a layer is positively/negatively correlated with value added. Reorganization, through changes in layers, is essential to understanding how firms grow. Firms that expand substantially add layers and pay lower average wages in all preexisting layers. In contrast, firms that expand little and do not reorganize pay higher average wages in all preexisting layers.