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Educational Mismatch and Promotions to Managerial Positions : A Test of the Career Mobility Theory
Grunau, Philipp - 2018
Career mobility theory suggests that given a certain occupation, schooling improves upward mobility in terms of … promotion and wage growth. We are the first to test the implications of this theory for over- and under-education by means of …. Altogether, these findings strongly support the career mobility theory. Furthermore, by differentiating between internal and …
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Size of Training Firms : The Role of Firms, Luck, and Ability in Young Workers' Careers
Müller, Steffen - 2016
This paper analyzes how life-cycle unemployment of former apprentices depends on the size of the training firm. We start from the hypotheses that the size of training firms reduces long-run cumulated unemployment exposure, e.g. via differences in training quality and in the availability of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996536
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A Marriage-Market Perspective on Risk-Taking and Career Choices : Theory and Evidence
Zhang, Hanzhe - 2020
explain a set of observed gender differences in the labor market and marriage market outcomes. Our theory predicts that …
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Firm Size, Market Liberalization and Growth
Stankov, Petar - 2013
Economies have markedly different firm size distributions. At the same time, firms of different size grow differently after identical financial- and product-market liberalization reforms. Thus, identical reforms can produce different growth outcomes across countries. This result is reached after...
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The origins and dynamics of export superstars
Freund, Caroline L.; Pierola, Martha Denisse - In: The World Bank economic review : WBER 34 (2020) 1, pp. 28-47
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Size of training firms and cumulated long-run unemployment exposure : the role of firms, luck, and ability in young workers’ careers
Müller, Steffen; Neubäumer, Renate - 2016
This paper analyzes how life-cycle unemployment of former apprentices depends on the size of the training firm. We start from the hypotheses that the size of training firms reduces long-run cumulated unemployment exposure, e.g. via differences in training quality and in the availability of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435940
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Promotion incentives in the public sector : evidence from Chinese schools
Karachiwalla, Naureen; Park, Albert - 2017
and middle school teachers. Consistent with theory, high wage increases for promotion are associated with better …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011612924
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Promotion Incentives in the Public Sector : Evidence from Chinese Schools
Karachiwalla, Naureen - 2017
and middle school teachers. Consistent with theory, high wage increases for promotion are associated with better …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962307
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Promotion Incentives in the Public Sector : Evidence from Chinese Schools
Karachiwalla, Naureen - 2015
promotion incentives are tested using panel data on primary and middle school teachers in western China. Consistent with theory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013022569
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Financial fragility and the distribution of firm growth rates
Bottazzi, Giulio; Secchi, Angelo - 2013
Analyzing a comprehensive database of limited liability manufacturing firms this paper investigates the relation between a firm’s financial situation and its conditional expected growth rate. Specifically, using quantile regressions, we obtain a quantitative characterization of this relation...
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