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This paper explores the dynamics of wage growth in corporate hierarchies. Using panel data techniques, we estimate the causal effect of current and past transitions in reporting level and past earnings growth on components of current earnings and earnings growth using a large panel of US...
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For many years the NHS has been subject to allegations that gender and racial discrimination are a feature of the internal labour market for qualified nurses. This paper examines this issue with regard to the promotion process using 1994 survey data. We start by rejecting the assumption of...
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The goal of this study is to examine whether women in the highest levels of firms' management ranks help reduce barriers to women's advancement in the workplace. Using a panel of over 20,000 private-sector firms across all industries and states during 1990-2003 from the U.S. Equal Employment...
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, university-educated workers from an Australian longitudinal survey, we find strong evidence that the dynamics of promotions and …
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Promotions and cross-firm mobility provide substantial gains in earnings – a well established finding based on gross … income gains from promotions and cross-firm mobility do not translate into significantly higher net income growth, because …
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premiums for promotions over the hierarchical ladder. In the context of the model discussed, this shape suggests a stronger …
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This paper studies the effect of changes in foreign competition on the incentives faced by U.S. managers in the form of wage structures, promotion profiles, and job turnover. We use a panel of executives and measure foreign competition as import penetration. Using tariffs and exchange rates as...
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We analyse data from personnel records of a large firm producing energy and telecommunication and test for the effect of deviations between required and attained education of workers. Required education is measured as hiring standards set by the firm. We find the usual effects of over- and...
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negative effects on workers’ career. This may be the case when firms use promotions to stimulate skill acquisition and human … hours worked or when they screen workers on the basis of the number of hours worked. Because promotions are an important … promotion relative to workers in full-time jobs and that promotions account for a wage growth of eight log points. Moreover, we …
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find negative effects of wage sweep-up on quits, layoffs and promotions. This is consistent with a core-periphery view of … promotions for high wage sweep-up workers seems to be strategy of employers to circumvent wage rigidity. This suggests that it is …
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