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A "glass-ceiling" effect for immigrants in the Italian labour market?
Dell'Aringa, Carlo; Lucifora, Claudio; Pagani, Laura - 2012
This paper investigates earnings differentials between immigrants and natives. We focus on returns and on the (imperfect) international transferability of human capital. Data are drawn from the 2009 Italian Labour Force Survey (LFS). We show that returns to human capital are considerably lower...
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Die Bedeutung internationaler Erfahrungen für den Karriereerfolg von Führungskräften
Biemann, Torsten - In: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung (ZfP) 23 (2009) 4, pp. 336-356
expatriate managers and the existing results are inconsistent. Therefore, the objective of this study is to empirically compare … managers with and without international experience to analyze the consequences of international experience on their career … success. Results show that managers with international experience have more successful subjective (career stafisfaction) and …
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Ziele von Führungsnachwuchskräften: Berufliche Entwicklung nach der Einarbeitung
Kaschube, Jürgen - 1997
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The Promotion Dynamics of American Executives
Belzil, Christian; Bognanno, Michael - 2004
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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Tournaments and managerial incentives in China's listed firms: new evidence
Kato, Takao; Long, Cheryl - 2008
The promotion tournament as a potentially important incentive mechanism for top management in transition economies has not been examined by the emerging literature on managerial incentives in transition economies. This paper is the first attempt to fill this important gap in the literature. The...
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Gender and Work Hours Transitions in Australia : Drop Ceilings and Trap-Door Floors
Drago, Robert William; Black, David; Wooden, Mark - 2004
often than men; that professionals and managers confront trap-door floors significantly more often than employees in other …
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Managerial incentives and favoritism in promotion decisions: Theory and field evidence
Berger, Johannes; Herbertz, Claus; Sliwka, Dirk - 2011
mitigated by pay-for-performance incentives for managers who decide upon promotion. Second, we analyze matched employer … indeed substantially higher when managers receive performance-related pay or participate in gain sharing plans. …
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Führungswechsel: Die Wirtschaftselite und das Ende der Deutschland AG
Freye, Saskia - 2009
Führungspositionen ein neuer Typ des Managers durchgesetzt? Ihre Ergebnisse zeigen, wie sich die Karriereverläufe deutscher …
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Promotion determinants in corporate hierarchies: An examination of fast tracks and functional area
Belzil, Christian; Bognanno, Michael Leonard; Poinas, … - 2012
This article estimates a dynamic reduced-form model of intra-firm promotions using an employer-employee panel of over 300 of the largest corporations in the U.S. in the period from 1981 to 1988. The estimation conditions on unobserved individual heterogeneity and allows for both an endogenous...
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Career Concerns in a Simple Experimental Labour Market
Irlenbusch, Bernd; Sliwka, Dirk - 2003
We experimentally investigate a simple version of Holmström?s career concerns model in which firms compete for agents in two consecutive periods. Profits of firms are determined by agents? unknown ability and the effort they choose. Before making second-period wage offers firms are informed...
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