全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): DP8085 Don?t Spread Yourself Too Thin. The Impact of Task Juggling on Workers' Speed of Job Completion

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来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP8085
	DP8085 Don?t Spread Yourself Too Thin. The Impact of Task Juggling on Workers' Speed of Job Completion
	Andrea Ichino; Nicola Persico; Decio Coviello
发表日期	2010-10-31
出版年	2010
语种	英语
摘要	We show that task juggling, i.e., the spreading of effort across too many active projects, decreases the performance of workers, raising the chances of low throughput, long duration of projects and exploding backlogs. Individual speed of job completion cannot be explained only in terms of effort, ability and experience: work scheduling is a crucial ?input? that cannot be omitted from the production function of individual workers. We provide a simple theoretical model to study the effects of increased task juggling on the duration of projects. Using a sample of Italian judges we show that those who are induced for exogenous reasons to work in a more parallel fashion on many trials at the same time, take longer to complete similar portfolios of cases. The exogenous variation that identifies this causal effect is constructed exploiting the lottery that assigns cases to judges together with the procedural prescription requiring judges to hold the first hearing of a case no later than 60 days from filing.
主题	Labour Economics ; Public Economics
关键词	Individual production function Work scheduling Duration of trials
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp8085
来源智库	Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/536922
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Andrea Ichino,Nicola Persico,Decio Coviello. DP8085 Don?t Spread Yourself Too Thin. The Impact of Task Juggling on Workers' Speed of Job Completion. 2010.