TY  - JOUR
AU  - Black,Sandra E.
AU  - Lynch,Lisa
AU  - Krivelyova,Anya
TI  - How Workers Fare When Employers Innovate
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 9569
PY  - 2003
Y2  - March 2003
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w9569
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w9569.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Sandra Black
Department of Economics
8283 Bunche Hall
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA  90095
Tel: 310/825-5665
Fax: 310/825-9528
E-Mail: sblack@econ.ucla.edu

Lisa M. Lynch
The Heller School for Social Policy and Management
Brandeis University
Waltham, MA 02454
Tel: 781-736-8683
Fax: 781-736-3852
E-Mail: lisalynch@brandeis.edu
AB  - Complementing existing work on firm organizational structure and productivity, this paper examines the impact of organizational change on workers. We find evidence that employers do appear to compensate at least some of their workers for engaging in high performance workplace practices. We also find a significant association between high performance workplace practices and increased wage inequality. Finally, we examine the relationship between organizational structure and employment changes and find that some practices, such as self-managed teams, are associated with greater employment reductions, while other practices, such as the percentage of workers involved in job rotation, are associated with lower employment reductions.
ER  -