This study investigates whether and when during the life cycle women fall behind in terms of career progression because … establishment as well as in combination with an establishment change. Women with children are 1.6 percentage points less likely … promoted than women without children; this is what we refer to as the family gap in climbing the career. We find that mothers …

-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 …

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 …, thereby complementing extant studies of the NLSY79 that relate to differences between men and women at an earlier stage in …

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 …

In most OECD countries, only very few women succeed in reaching top executive positions. In this paper, the probability … of promotion into VP and CEO positions is estimated based on employer-employee data on all Danish companies observed … maternity and paternity leave and proxies for 'female-friendly' companies, there is still a considerable gap in the promotion …

This paper provides new evidence about horizontal transfer and promotion using the largest available personnel panel … employees’ promotion and horizontal transfers. Then, we show theoretically that task-specific human capital can naturally …

We formulate an empirical model of promotion with dynamic self-selection where the current promotion probability … specific attributes, time varying firm specific variables (firm size and profits) as well as endogenous past promotion … histories. We examine the causal effect of previous promotion histories (as measured by realized speed of promotion) on future …

. Specifically, how do the factors related to promotion differ for men and women? How do gender differences in promotion translate … men and women in our sample faced the same promotion standard, promotion rates would have been higher for women than for … men. Furthermore, the share of overall wage growth attributable to promotion is much larger for women than for men …

The Peter Principle states that, after a promotion, the observed output of promoted employees tends to fall. Lazear … transitory ability. We also compare the efficiency of an exogenous promotion standard with a treatment where subjects self …, the efficiency of job allocation is higher when using a promotion rule than when employees are allowed to self …

This paper examines the disincentive effects of perceived underpayment on individuals’ exerted effort and promotion. To … promotion, the difference between perceived and actual income has a smaller negative effect on the actual effort invested in …