Cross-Country Differences in Work – CUHK Business School

Events Research Seminars Cross-Country Differences in Work

Abstract

We examine the role of a society’s social trust in shaping its organization’s job design. We use a dataset comprising over 60 million job postings from 28 European Union countries. Our most rigorous analytical models employ bilateral trust measures to predict job design choices, including fixed effects on country, firm, and occupation, as well as relying on an instrumental variable approach. This study underscores the role of social trust in shaping organizational practices.

Speaker Biography

Letian (LT) Zhang is an assistant professor at Harvard Business School. He is currently exploring (1) how a society’s social structure and culture predict organization/job design and (2) how such design choices are associated with workplace inequality. He earned a Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard University and a B.S. in mathematics from Stanford University.