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Competition and career advancement: the hidden costs of paid leave
Johnsen, Julian; Ku, Hyejin; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2020
Does leave-taking matter for young workers' careers? If so, why? We propose the competition effect - relative leave status of workers affecting their relative standing inside the firm - as a new explanation. Exploiting a policy reform that exogenously assigned four-week paid paternity leave to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012266602
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Competition and career advancement
Johnsen, Julian; Ku, Hyejin; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2023
In standard promotion tournaments, contestants are ranked based on their output or productivity. We argue that workers' career progression may also depend on their relative rankings in dimensions a priori unrelated to their job performance, such as visibility or in-person presence. Such implicit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014319662
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Competition and Career Advancement: The Hidden Costs of Paid Leave
Johnsen, Julian V.; Ku, Hyejin; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2020
Does leave-taking matter for young workers' careers? If so, why? We propose the competition effect—relative leave status of workers affecting their relative standing inside the firm—as a new explanation. Exploiting a policy reform that exogenously assigned four-week paid paternity leave to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270274
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Competition and Career Advancement
Johnsen, Julian; Ku, Hyejin; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2023
In standard promotion tournaments, contestants are ranked based on their output or productivity. We argue that workers' career progression may also depend on their relative rankings in dimensions a priori unrelated to their job performance, such as visibility or in-person presence. Such implicit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377551
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Competition and Career Advancement
Johnsen, Julian; Ku, Hyejin; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2023
In standard promotion tournaments, contestants are ranked based on their output or productivity. We argue that workers’ career progression may also depend on their relative rankings in dimensions a priori unrelated to their job performance, such as visibility or in-person presence. Such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014345961
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Competition and Career Advancement : The Hidden Costs of Paid Leave
Johnsen, Julian - 2020
Does leave-taking matter for young workers' careers? If so, why? We propose the competition effect—relative leave status of workers affecting their relative standing inside the firm—as a new explanation. Exploiting a policy reform that exogenously assigned four-week paid paternity leave to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012825594
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Competition and Career Advancement : The Hidden Costs of Paid Leave
Johnsen, Julian - 2020
Does leave-taking matter for young workers' careers? If so, why? We propose the competition effect—relative leave status of workers affecting their relative standing inside the firm—as a new explanation. Exploiting a policy reform that exogenously assigned four-week paid paternity leave to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012825941
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Gender-biased technological change : milking machines and the exodus of women from farming
Ager, Philipp; Goñi, Marc; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2023
task typically performed by women. Combining population-wide panel data from the Norwegian registry with municipality … transformation by displacing young rural women from their traditional jobs on farms in dairy-intensive municipalities. The displaced … women moved to urban areas where they acquired a higher level of education and found better-paid employment. These findings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014319184
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The Family Peer Effect on Mothers' Labour Supply
Nicoletti, Cheti - 2016
The documented historical rise in female labour force participation has flattened in recent decades, but the proportion of mothers working full-time has steadily increased. We provide the first empirical evidence that the increase in mothers' working hours is amplified through the influence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012990883
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The Family Peer Effect on Mothers' Labour Supply
Nicoletti, Cheti - 2016
decisions of her family peers. Using Norwegian administrative data covering the full population of women, we study the long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012991646