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Rigidität durch Flexibilität: flexible Arbeit und das Wachstum von Managementbürokratien

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  • Alfred Kleinknecht
  • Zenlin Kwee
  • Lilyana Budyanto

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Flexibility in labour markets increases transaction costs. Using organisation-level data representative for the Netherlands, we show that firms have higher shares of managers in their personnel if they employ more flexible workers. This fits to earlier observations that Anglo-Saxon countries with flexible labour markets have substantially thicker management bureaucracies than “Rhineland” countries with more regulated labour markets. We also find that percentages of managers in younger firms do not differ from those in older firms, while smaller firms have relatively more managers than larger firms. Moreover, not-for-profit and government organisations have relatively thinner management bureaucracies than private firms. Copyright ZBW and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015

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  • Alfred Kleinknecht & Zenlin Kwee & Lilyana Budyanto, 2015. "Rigidität durch Flexibilität: flexible Arbeit und das Wachstum von Managementbürokratien," Wirtschaftsdienst, Springer;ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 95(12), pages 851-856, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:wirtsc:v:95:y:2015:i:12:p:851-856
    DOI: 10.1007/s10273-015-1913-9
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    Keywords

    J53; J82; M12; M54;
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    JEL classification:

    • J53 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining - - - Labor-Management Relations; Industrial Jurisprudence
    • J82 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Standards - - - Labor Force Composition
    • M12 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - Personnel Management; Executives; Executive Compensation
    • M54 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Personnel Economics - - - Labor Management

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