Essays on changing nature of work and organizations : implications for the U.S. labor market
Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2018.
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| author | Rho, Hye Jin |
| author2 | Thomas Kochan and Paul Osterman. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1202002019-04-12T19:40:28Z Essays on changing nature of work and organizations : implications for the U.S. labor market Rho, Hye Jin Thomas Kochan and Paul Osterman. Sloan School of Management. Sloan School of Management. Sloan School of Management. Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2018. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references. This dissertation examines how the changing nature of work and organizations has altered the U.S. labor market to influence employment outcomes for job seekers (1) in alternative work arrangements and (2) of different genders. The first essay describes recent developments in the labor market for nonstandard workers, that is, an increase in the variety of pathways through which nonstandard workers are assigned to work. I suggest that changes in the regulatory environment, the rhetoric around competition, and technological developments have shaped inter-organizational relationships and norms in the industry to bring about a very different system of labor markets than was traditionally understood. I contend that such a multifaceted employment model with a diverse set of exchanges among multiple actors has profound implications for the future of IR research. The second essay examines the "multi-layered labor contracting" structure in which the recruitment of nonstandard workers is outsourced to an intermediating organization, who then selects workers from a group of competing suppliers. Drawing on power-dependence theories, I examine the link between these new contractual relationships and economic outcomes for lead firms and workers. Using proprietary data from employment records of nonstandard workers in Fortune 500 firms, I find that an additional contracting layer between lead firms and workers is associated with higher returns to firms and lower returns to workers. The loss from an additional contracting layer is reduced when workers gain bargaining power through pre-existing relationships with the firm. The third essay addresses how interactional processes between employers and job seekers at an initial recruitment phase online influence gender sorting of job seekers. We use unique data from a field study and (Study 1) a field experiment (Study 2) of online job postings to test two distinct interactional mechanisms: gendered language (as experienced by job seekers) and in-group preferences (as exercised by job seekers). We mostly find support for our predictions that, compared to male job seekers, female job seekers are more likely to show interest in and apply to a job when the job is described using more stereotypically feminine words or by female recruiters. by Hye Jin Rho. 1. A Multifaceted Model of Employment Relationship for Nonstandard Work -- 2. Multi-layered Labor Contracting and Distribution of Power: Evidence from Employment Records for Nonstandard Work -- 3. Language and Gender in the Online Job-Matching Process. Ph. D. 2019-02-05T15:57:17Z 2019-02-05T15:57:17Z 2018 2018 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/120200 1082522841 eng MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 150 pages application/pdf n-us--- Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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