Arbeitspapier
Layoffs and Productivity at a Bangladeshi Sweater Factory
Conflicts between management and workers are common and can have significant impacts on productivity. Combining ethnographic, survey and administrative records from a large Bangladeshi sweater factory, we study how workers responded to management's decision to lay off about a quarter of the workers following a period of labor unrest. Our main finding is that the mass layoff resulted in a large and persistent reduction in the productivity of surviving workers. Moreover, it is specifically the firing of peers with whom workers likely had social connections - friends - that matters. Additional evidence on defect rates suggests a deliberate shading of performance by workers in order to punish the factory's management.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Discussion Paper ; No. 393
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining: General
Personnel Economics: General
Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
- Thema
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layoffs
productivity
morale
relational contracts
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Akerlof, Robert
Ashraf, Anik
Macchiavello, Rocco
Rabbani, Atonu
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München und Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Collaborative Research Center Transregio 190 - Rationality and Competition
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München und Berlin
- (wann)
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2023
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Akerlof, Robert
- Ashraf, Anik
- Macchiavello, Rocco
- Rabbani, Atonu
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München und Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Collaborative Research Center Transregio 190 - Rationality and Competition
Entstanden
- 2023
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