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The Role of Connections in Academic Promotions
Zinovyeva, Natalia - 2012
This paper analyzes the role of connections in academic promotions. We exploit evidence from centralized evaluations in Spain, where evaluators are randomly assigned to promotion committees. We find that prior connections between candidates and evaluators have a dramatic impact on candidates'...
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Academic Careers and Fertility Decisions
De Paola, Maria; Nisticò, Roberto; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2021
We investigate how academic promotions affect the propensity of women to have a child. We use administrative data on the universe of female assistant professors employed in Italian universities from 2001 to 2018. We estimate a model with individual fixed effects and find that promotion to...
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The Family Gap in Career Progression
Kunze, Astrid - 2014
This study investigates whether and when during the life cycle women fall behind in terms of career progression because of children. We use 1987-1997 Norwegian panel data that contain information on individuals' position in their career hierarchy as well as a direct measure of their promotions....
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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 … individual participation incentives. I find that on-the-job training has a positive impact on the employees' employment prospects … positively affect the employment rate near retirement. In contrast, an increase in the general availability of training would not …
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Job Mismatches and Labour Market Outcomes : Panel Evidence on Australian University Graduates
Mavromaras, Kostas G. - 2010
The interpretation of graduate mismatch manifested either as overeducation or as overskilling remains problematical. This paper uses annual panel information on both educational and skills mismatches uniquely found in the HILDA survey to analyse the relationship of both mismatches with pay, job...
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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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The Promotion Dynamics of American Executives
Belzil, Christian; Bognanno, Michael L. - 2021
We formulate an empirical model of promotion with dynamic self-selection where the current promotion probability depends on the hierarchical level in the firm, individual human capital, unobserved (to the econometrician) individual specific attributes, time varying firm specific variables (firm...
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Cyclical Earnings, Career and Employment Transitions
Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Visschers, Ludo; Wiczer, David - 2022
poor re-employment outcomes …
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Assessing the Impact of Off- and On-the-Job Training on Employment Outcomes : A Counterfactual Evaluation of the Pipol Program
Pastore, Francesco - 2019
employment integration of benefit recipients. To address the issue, we have resorted to a counterfactual approach with data from … two main sources: the program administration and compulsory communications on employment and unemployment spells. We found …
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Bullying at School and Labour Market Outcomes
Drydakis, Nick - 2013
This study examines the long-term correlates of bullying in school with aspects of functioning in adult employment … outlines why bullying might affect employment outcomes through differences in skills and traits. Using Bivariate and Heckit … labour force participation, employment rate and hourly wages are negatively affected by bullying. In addition, men …
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