1. Introduction; Olga Rymkevich -- Part I. Setting the Framework -- 2. Performance Appraisal Criteria and Innovative Work Behaviour: The Mediating Role of Employees' Appraisal Satisfaction; Ylenia Curzi, Tommaso Fabbri and Barbara Pistoresi -- 3. Performance Appraisal and the Dynamics of Wages;...

We explore the impact of mentoring of females and gender segregation on wages using a large longitudinal data set for Portugal. Female managers can protect and mentor female employees by paying them higher wages than male-led firms would do. We find that females can enjoy higher wages in...

Are people prone to selecting occupations with highly skewed income distributions despite minuscule chances of success? Assembling a comprehensive pool of potential teenage entrants into professional tennis (a typical winner-take-all market), we construct objective measures of relative ability...

This paper establishes the presence of a substantial gender gap in the relationship between state legislature service and the subsequent pursuit of a Congressional career. The empirical approach uses a sample of mixed-gender elections to compare the differential political career progression of...