Mitchell Hoffman
· Professor of EconomicsUniversity of California, Santa Barbara · Economics
Active 2010–2026
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About
I study the determinants of workplace productivity, working at the intersection of labor economics, personnel & organizational economics, and behavioral economics. I am particularly interested in questions related to hiring, both in terms of firm performance and in terms of consequences for workers and society.
Selected publications
People, Practices, and Productivity: A Review of New Advances in Personnel Economics
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2024-01-01 · 14 citations
reviewOpen access1st authorCorrespondingNational Bureau of Economic Research · 2023-02-01 · 12 citations
reportOpen accessPeople, Practices, and Productivity: A Review of New Advances in Personnel Economics
National Bureau of Economic Research · 2024-08-01 · 8 citations
reviewOpen access1st authorCorrespondingThis chapter surveys recent advances in personnel economics.We begin by presenting evidence showing substantial and persistent productivity variation among workers in the same roles.We discuss new research on incentives and compensation; hiring practices; the influence of managers and peers; and time use, technology, and training.We emphasize two main themes.First, we seek to illustrate the interplay between these topics and productivity differences between people and work units.Second, we argue…
Information Frictions and Employee Sorting Between Startups
National Bureau of Economic Research · 2022-09-01 · 5 citations
reportOpen accessIs This Really Kneaded? Identifying and Eliminating Potentially Harmful Forms of Workplace Control
National Bureau of Economic Research · 2025-08-01 · 1 citations
reportOpen accessIn a large German bakery chain, many workers report negative perceptions of monitoring via checklists.We survey workers and managers about the value and time costs to all in-store checklists, leading the firm to randomly remove two of the most perceivedly time-consuming and low-value checklists in half of stores.Sales increase and store manager attrition substantially decreases, and this occurs without a rise in measurable workplace problems.Before random assignment, regional managers predict wh…
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