Acosta, Pablo - In: Labour Economics 17 (2010) 6, pp. 975-986
"promoted to their level of incompetence". A corollary of the "Peter Principle" prediction is that external hires should have an … controlling for workers' heterogeneity and tenure on the current job. The advantage for external hires does not hold once other … prediction for career advancement. Results support the idea of differences in promotion dynamics among incumbents and external …