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Relative performance pay, bonuses, and job-promotion tournaments
Kräkel, Matthias (contributor);  … - 2008
Several empirical studies have challenged tournament theory by pointing out that (1) there is considerable pay … recruitment is observable on nearly any hierarchy level. We explain these empirical puzzles by combining job-promotion tournaments … recruitment ; job promotion ; limited liability ; tournaments …
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Effects of training on employee suggestions and promotions in an internal labor market
Pfeifer, Christian; Janssen, Simon; Yang, Philip; … - 2011
We evaluate the effects of employer-provided formal training on employee suggestions for productivity improvements and on promotions among male blue-collar workers. More than twenty years of personnel data of four entry cohorts in a German company allow us to address issues such as unobserved...
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Selecting talent : gender differences in participation and success in competitive selection processes
Farré, Lídia; Ortega, Francesc - 2019
We investigate whether competitive selection processes generate gender inequality in the context of a prestigious graduate fellowship program. All applications are scored remotely by expert reviewers and the highest ranked are invited to an in-person interview. The data show a very large gender...
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Can training programs or rather wage subsidies bring the unemployed back to work? : a theoretical and empirical investigation for Germany
Neubäumer, Renate - 2010
administrative data set from Germany and statistical matching techniques. Our treatment groups consist of unemployed persons taking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003950725
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Promotions and incentives : the case of multi-stage elimination tournaments
Altmann, Steffen (contributor); Falk, Armin (contributor);  … - 2008
Promotion tournaments play an important role for the provision of incentives in firms. In this paper, we extend research on single-stage rank-order tournaments and analyze behavior in multi-stage elimination tournaments. The main treatment of our laboratory experiment is a two-stage tournament...
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Overeducation, wages and promotions within the firm
Groeneveld, Sandra (contributor); Hartog, Joop (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Longer careers : a barrier to hiring and coworker advancement?
Ferrari, Irene; Kabátek, Jan; Morris, Todd - 2023
Government policies are encouraging older workers to delay retirement, which may curb younger workers' career advancement. We study a Dutch reform that raised the retirement age by 13 months and nearly tripled employment at age 66. Using monthly linked employer-employee data, we show that...
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Training in late careers : a structural approach
Backhaus, Teresa - 2023
This study investigates the role of on-the-job training in the employment outcomes of less educated men in their late careers. Using survey data from the German National Education Panel Study adult cohort, I estimate a structural dynamic discrete-choice model reflecting the trade-offs of the...
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Analyzing cost efficient production behavior under economies of scope : a nonparametric methodology
Cherchye, Laurens (contributor); Rock, Bram de (contributor) - 2006
"In designing a production model for firms that generate multiple outputs, we take as a starting point that such multi-output production refers to economies of scope, which in turn originate from joint input use and input externalities. We provide a nonparametric characterization of cost...
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The structure of hiring costs in Germany : evidence from firm-level data
Mühlemann, Samuel; Pfeifer, Harald - 2013
This paper analyzes the structure of hiring costs of skilled workers in Germany. Using detailed and representative firm …-level data on recruitment and adaptation costs of new hires, we find that average hiring costs amount to more than 8 weeks of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010195954