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Subjective Performance Evaluations and Employee Careers

Frederiksen, Anders - 2012

Firms commonly use supervisor ratings to evaluate employees when objective performance measures are unavailable. Supervisor ratings are subjective and data containing supervisor ratings typically stem from individual firm level data sets. For both these reasons, doubts persist on how useful such...

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Please Call Again : Correcting Non-Response Bias in Treatment Effect Models

Behaghel, Luc - 2012

We propose a novel selectivity correction procedure to deal with survey attrition, at the crossroads of the "Heckit … models, we use information on the number of attempts that were made to obtain response to the survey from each individual who …

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Sample Attrition Bias in Randomized Experiments : A Tale of Two Surveys

Behaghel, Luc - 2009

two independent surveys on the same initial sample of 8, 000 persons. The first one is a long telephone survey that had a … telephone survey targeted at those leaving the unemployment registers; this enriched data source has a balanced and much higher … results. Using the enriched administrative data as benchmark, we find evidence that estimates from the long telephone survey …

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Human Capital and Career Success : Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Frederiksen, Anders - 2011

Denmark's registry data provide accurate and complete career history data along with detailed personal characteristics (e.g., education, gender, work experience, tenure and others) for the population of Danish workers longitudinally. By using such data from 1992 to 2002, we provide rigorous...

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Gender Promotion Gaps : Career Aspirations and Workplace Discrimination

Azmat, Ghazala - 2020

Using a nationally representative longitudinal survey of lawyers in the U.S., we document a sizeable gap between men …

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Career Lotto : Labor Supply in Winner-Take-All Markets

Grove, Wayne A. - 2019

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...

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Career Wage Profiles and the Minimum Wage

Papps, Kerry L. - 2014

when it is not competitive. This prediction is then tested using data from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings in the …

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Gender Differences in Political Career Progression : Evidence from U.S. Elections

Brown, Ryan - 2019

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...

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