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Athey, Susan; Avery, Christopher; Zemsky, Peter B. - 2021

This paper studies the forces which determine how diversity at a firm evolves over time. We consider a dynamic model o a single firm with two levels of employees, the entry level and the upper level. In each period, the firm selects a subset of the entry-level workers for promotion to the upper...

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Promotions and the Peter Principle

Benson, Alan - 2018

The best worker is not always the best candidate for manager. In these cases, do firms promote the best potential manager or the best worker in her current job? Using microdata on the performance of sales workers at 214 firms, we find evidence consistent with the “Peter Principle,” which...

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Incentives and Careers in Organizations

Gibbons, Robert S. - 2021

This paper surveys two related pieces of the labor-economics literature: incentive pay and careers in organizations. In the discussion of incentives, I first summarize theory and evidence related to the classic agency model, which emphasizes the tradeoff between insurance and incentives. I then...

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Formal Employee Training Programs and Their Impact on Labor Produc- Tivity : Evidence from a Human Resources Survey

Bartel, Ann P. - 2021

Although economic models of training decisions are framed in terms of a company's calculation of the costs and benefits of such training, empirical work has never been able to test this model directly on company behavior. This paper utilizes a unique database to analyze the determinants of the...

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Assessing Clinton'S Program on Job Training, Workfare, and Education in the Workplace

Heckman, James J. - 2021

The Clinton administration has made job training and skill upgrading a major priority. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich has already presented a bold program for skill enhancement drawing on a new consensus in certain circles of the social science and policy communities about the need to upgrade...

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Productivity Gains from the Implementation of Employee Training Programs

Bartel, Ann P. - 2021

This paper utilizes data on the personnel policies and economic characteristics of businesses in the manufacturing sector to study the relationship between employee training and labor productivity. The major finding is that businesses that were operating below their expected labor productivity...

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Taxation and On-the-Job Training Decisions

Rosen, Harvey S. - 2022

This paper is an econometric analysis of the on-the-job training (OJT) decisions of a group of white American males during 1975. The data are obtained from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, which asked a very careful series of questions concerning the individual's OJT status. Each individual's...

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The Effects of Student Coaching in College : An Evaluation of a Randomized Experiment in Student Mentoring

Bettinger, Eric - 2011

have. We present evidence from a randomized experiment which tests the effectiveness of individualized student coaching …. Over the course of two separate school years, InsideTrack, a student coaching service, provided coaching to students from … be attending the university one year after the coaching had ended. Coaching also proved a more cost-effective method of …

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Conflicts of Interest Distort Public Evaluations : Evidence from the Top 25 Ballots of NCAA Football Coaches

Kotchen, Matthew J. - 2011

This paper provides a study on conflicts of interest among college football coaches participating in the USA Today Coaches Poll of top 25 teams. The Poll provides a unique empirical setting that overcomes many of the challenges inherent in conflict of interest studies, because many agents are...

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Does Mentoring Reduce Turnover and Improve Skills of New Employees? Evidence from Teachers in New York City

Rockoff, Jonah E. - 2008

Mentoring has become an extremely popular policy for improving the retention and performance of new teachers, but we know little about its effects on teacher and student outcomes. I study the impact of mentoring in New York City, which adopted a nationally recognized mentoring program in 2004. I...

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