Underground waterlines

Focaal ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Denys Gorbach
Keyword(s):  
Macro Level ◽  
The Political ◽  
Macro Scale ◽  
Ethnographic Data ◽  
Economic Boom ◽  
Labor Hoarding ◽  
Large Enterprises

In order to explore factors conditioning the political quietude of Ukrainian labor, this article analyzes ethnographic data collected at two large enterprises: the Kyiv Metro and the privatized electricity supplier Kyivenergo. Focusing on a recent labor conflict, I unpack various contexts condensed in it. I analyze the hegemonic configuration developed in the early 1990s, at the workplace and at the macro level, and follow its later erosion. This configuration has been based on labor hoarding, distribution of nonwage resources, and patronage networks, featuring the foreman as the nodal figure. On the macro scale, it relied on the mediation by unions, supported by resources accumulated during the Soviet era and the economic boom of the 2000s. The depletion of these resources has spelled the ongoing crisis of this configuration.

Labor Hoarding and SRIRL Pardox: Some Evidences from United Kingdom and United States

1997 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 175-189
Author(s):  
Yongkyun Chung
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Business Cycle ◽  
Direct Measurement ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Competing Hypotheses ◽  
Procyclical Productivity ◽  
Labor Hoarding

The purpose of this study is to investigate the significance of the labor hoarding phenomenon in explaining the SRIRL paradox, or procyclical productivity. Accordingly previous work in these areas is particularly important. First, the direct measurement of labor hoarding shows how prominent the labor hoarding phenomenon is in various industries. Second, evidences of SRIRL at business cycle frequencies are mixed. Third, recent literature on labor hoarding tests indicates that labor hoarding is an indispensible ingredient to explain SRIRL or procyclical productivity among competing hypotheses.

scholarly journals Cyclical productivity in a model of labor hoarding

1996 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 331-361 ◽  
Author(s):  
Argia M. Sbordone
Keyword(s):  
Labor Hoarding

scholarly journals The Procyclical Behavior of Total Factor Productivity in the United States, 1890–2004

2010 ◽  
Vol 70 (2) ◽  
pp. 326-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander J. Field
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Total Factor Productivity ◽  
Productivity Growth ◽  
The United States ◽  
Real Business Cycle ◽  
Factor Productivity ◽  
Tfp Growth ◽  
Capital Services ◽  
Labor Hoarding ◽  
Statistical Artifact

Between 1890 and 2004 total factor productivity (TFP) growth in the United States has been strongly procyclical, while labor productivity growth has been mildly so. This article argues that these results are not simply a statistical artifact, as Mathew Shapiro and others have argued. Procyclicality resulted principally from demand shocks interacting with capital services which are relatively invariant over the cycle. This account contrasts with explanations emphasizing labor hoarding as well as those offered by the real business cycle (RBC) program, in which TFP shocks (deviations from trend) are themselves the cause of cycles.

scholarly journals Effect of Work–Life Balance Practices on Firm Productivity: Evidence from Japanese Firm-Level Panel Data

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 1677-1708 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isamu Yamamoto ◽  
Toshiyuki Matsuura
Keyword(s):  
Panel Data ◽  
Firm Heterogeneity ◽  
Manufacturing Firms ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Firing Costs ◽  
Japanese Firms ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Human Skills ◽  
Labor Hoarding

Abstract This article examines how firm practices that could contribute to worker attainment of work–life balance (WLB) affect the total factor productivity (TFP) of a firm, by using panel data of Japanese firms from the 1990s. We observed a positive correlation between the WLB practices and TFP among sampled firms. However that correlation vanished when we controlled for the unobserved firm heterogeneity, and we found no general causal relationship in which WLB practices increase firm TFP in the medium or long run. For firms with the following characteristics, however, we found positive and sizable effects: large firms, manufacturing firms, and firms that have exhibited labor hoarding during recessions. Since these firms are likely to incur large fixed employment costs, we infer that firms investing in firm-specific human skills or having large hiring/firing costs can benefit from WLB practices through a decrease in turnover or increase in recruiting effectiveness.

scholarly journals LABOR HOARDING: AN OLD PHENOMENA IN MODERN TIMES? CASE STUDY FOR EU COUNTRIES

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 872-889
Author(s):  
Kamila Radlińska ◽  
Maria Klonowska-Matynia ◽  
Agnieszka Jakubowska ◽  
Grzegorz Kwiatkowski
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Labor Markets ◽  
Production Volume ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Institutional Conditions ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
European Union Countries ◽  
National Economies ◽  
Labor Hoarding

A consequence of similar institutional conditions of domestic labor markets in Europe is the permanent occurrence of the “labor hoarding” phenomenon, which entails non-immediate adaptation of employment to production changes. The article verifies whether the phenomenon of labor hoarding occurs in the European Union countries and what is its level and the direction of changes between 1996 and 2016. The empirical study of employment adjustments to the production volume showed that in the examined period the phenomenon of labor hoarding occurred in all countries of the European Union (excluding Spain). Labor hoarding was accomplished through a slight adjustment of the number of employees to production changes. At the same time, it was noticed that the companies were more flexible with adjusting the number of hours worked. This was particularly evident during global crises and was the consequence of other vital changes in national economies.

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