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workers are assumed to come from a group with lower average ability. Their promotion is hypothesized to signal a larger … positive assessment of their ability than for more highly educated workers for whom promotion is expected. Promotions for … younger workers, with less known about their abilities, should also result in strong signaling effects. We find results in …
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workers are assumed to come from a group with lower average ability. Their promotion is hypothesized to signal a larger … positive assessment of their ability than for more highly educated workers for whom promotion is expected. Promotions for … younger workers, with less known about their abilities, should also result in strong signaling effects. We find results in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011144254
promotion dynamics; and ii) human-resource practices. For each case I describe the empirical and theoretical literatures and …
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This paper examines the disincentive effects of perceived underpayment on individuals’ exerted effort and promotion. To … promotion, the difference between perceived and actual income has a smaller negative effect on the actual effort invested in …
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character of working time. We examine whether unpaid extra hours induce a higher likelihood of promotion and pay rise, and …
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the same rate as men, but receive smaller wage increases consequent upon promotion. These facts contradict the … conventional view that 'glass ceilings' limit the promotion of women. They are consistent with our new 'sticky floors' model of …
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The recent international literature on immigration wage effects has shown contrasting results. Past studies have focussed on the effect of low skilled immigrants on native-born workers in the US, and have yielded results ranging from no impact to negative impacts. This paper, by contrast,...
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promotion dans un poste, appele poste superieur. Les deux employes ne possedent pas la meme capacite a exercer dans le poste … superieur; ils evaluent ainsi differemment la perspective d'une promotion en fonction du cout a l'effort qu'ils anticipent … offert a la promotion et permet ainsi de nuancer la critique de Peter qui prevoit une selection inefficace a l'issu d'un tel …
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Splitting leagues or tournaments seems to be puzzling when agents are homogeneous and splitting leads to a negative competition effect. However, it can be shown that the principal can nevertheless benefit from splitting. First, splitting can be used as a divide-and-rule strategy by the principal...
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Research increasingly shows that differences in endowments at birth need not be genetic but instead are influenced by environmental factors while the fetus is in the womb. In addition, these differences may persist well beyond childhood. In this paper, we study one such environmental factor -...
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