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The Impact of Female Employment on Male Wages and Careers: Evidence from the English Banking Industry, 1890-1941

Seltzer, Andrew - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

The late 19th and early 20th century British labour market experienced an influx of female clerical workers. Employers argued that female employment increased opportunities for men to advance; however, most male clerks regarded this expansion of the labour supply as a threat to their pay and...

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Evidence on Training and Career Paths: Human Capital, Information and Incentives

Melero, Eduardo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

unaffected the chances of male workers. Then, I investigate how do training and promotion jointly influence wage growth. The … role of promotion systems as mechanisms devised to provide incentives. …

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Information and Communication Technologies and Skill Upgrading: The Role of Internal vs. External Labour Markets

Behaghel, Luc; Caroli, Eve; Walkowiak, Emmanuelle - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Following the adoption of information and communication technologies (ICT), firms are likely to face increasing skill requirements. They may react either by training or hiring the new skills, or by a combination of both. We first show that ICT are indeed skill biased and we then assess the...

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The Determinants of Performance Appraisal Systems: A Note (Do Brown and Heywood’s Results for Australia Hold Up for Britain?)

Addison, John T.; Belfield, Clive R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper offers a replication for Britain of Brown and Heywood’s analysis of the determinants of performance appraisal in Australia. Although there are some important limiting differences between our two datasets - the AWIRS and the WERS - we reach one central point of agreement and one...

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Training Background and Early Retirement

Montizaan, Raymond; Cörvers, Frank; de Grip, Andries - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Several studies show that employees with firm-specific skills are more likely to be covered by employer-sponsored pension schemes than workers with general skills. Therefore it can be expected that workers with firm-specific skills retire earlier. This paper tests this prediction using US data...

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Deferred Compensation and Gift Exchange: An Experimental Investigation into Multi-Period Labor Markets

Huck, Steffen; Seltzer, Andrew J.; Wallace, Brian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

This paper examines the relationship between firms’ wage offers and workers’ supply of effort using a three-period experiment. In equilibrium, firms will offer deferred compensation: first period productivity is positive and wages are zero, while third period productivity is zero and wages...

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Extra Status and Extra Stress: Are Promotions Good for Us?

Johnston, David W.; Lee, Wang-Sheng - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

-quality panel data we estimate pre- and post-promotion effects on job attributes, physical health, mental health and life … deterioration two years after receiving a promotion. Thus, it seems the additional stress involved with promotions eventually …

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Promotion and Wages in Mid-Career: Gender, Unionism, and Sector

Addison, John T.; Ozturk, Orgul Demet; Wang, Si - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper considers the role of gender in the promotion process and the impact of promotion on wages and wage growth …, using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79). Its focus is upon mid-career promotion and wages … the private sector (and no less likely in the public sector); that wages are increasing in promotion, and the effect is …

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The Family Gap in Career Progression

Kunze, Astrid - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This study investigates whether and when during the life cycle women fall behind in terms of career progression because of children. We use 1987-1997 Norwegian panel data that contain information on individuals' position in their career hierarchy as well as a direct measure of their promotions....

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Promotion Signals, Age and Education

Bognanno, Michael L.; Melero Martín, Eduardo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

workers are assumed to come from a group with lower average ability. Their promotion is hypothesized to signal a larger … positive assessment of their ability than for more highly educated workers for whom promotion is expected. Promotions for … accordance with our hypotheses regarding the effect of both age and education on the gains to promotion. However, the statistical …

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