The Last American Shoe Manufacturers: Decreasing Productivity and Increasing Profits in the Shift from Piece Rates to Continuous Flow Production

By Richard B. Freeman, Morris M. Kleiner. 2005

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Public Administration

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Citations in the corpus

• Theory and evidence in internal labor markets (2007, background): “…on the productivity of workers installing windshields, Nagin et al.’s (2002) study of piece-rate pay and call center productivity, and Hamilton, Nickerson, and Owan’s (2003) study of teams in apparel production (see also Knez and Simester (2001), Bartel (2004), and Freeman and Kleiner (2005)).”
• Trade Induced Technical Change? The Impact of Chinese Imports on innovation, IT and Productivity (2011, unknown): “Several detailed case studies such as Bartel, Ichinowski and Shaw (2007) on American valve-makers, Freeman and Kleiner (2005) on footwear or Bugamelli, Schivardi and Zizza (2008) on Italian manufacturers show firms innovating in response to import competition from low wage countries.”
• Field experiments in labor economics (2010, background): “in firms where productivity shocks are uncommon such as shoe making (Freeman and Kleiner, 2005) and bricklaying”
• An Alternative Theory of the Plant Size Distribution, with Geography and Intra- and International Trade (2014, unknown): “See in particular the Freeman and Kleiner ð2005Þ study on how personnel practices change in conjunction with”
• Human Resource Management and Productivity (2010, unknown): “One example is Freeman and Kleiner, 2005, who found that the abolition of piece rates reduced productivity but increased profits as quality rose in the absence of 13 piece rates.”
• Personnel Economics: Hiring and Incentives (2010, background): “Further, it is easy to find cases where pay-for-performance does not improve performance (and see Freeman and Kleiner, 2005 for one such example in the context of shoe manufacturing).”
• Organizational Barriers to Technology Adoption: Evidence from Soccer-Ball Producers in Pakistan (2015, unknown): “In a well-cited review article, Geroski (2000, p.604) writes: “The central feature of most discussions of technology diffusion is the apparently slow speed at which firms adopt new technologies.” Perhaps the foremost economic historian of technology, Nathan Rosenberg, writes “[I]f one examines the h”
• Incentives for Managers and Inequality Among Workers: Evidence from a Firm Level Experiment (2007, unknown): “Such ratchet concerns have been documented in firms where productivity shocks are less common such as shoe making (Freeman and Kleiner 2005) and bricklaying (Roy 1952).”