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professions where talent is essential, and performance is publicly observable, such as asset management, legal partnerships, and …
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quality managers are weeded out by the firm, and 2) high quality managers leave because firms are unable to adjust their … similar, but less dramatic, changes in their management team than firms that use a single CEO tournament …
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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 direct information about promotions to managerial...
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The current paper studies a multiple agent setting with career concerns and pay for performance contracts. In the two-period model, an Investor finances and offers a share of the profits to the Venture Capitalist. The Venture Capitalist, who faces career concerns, decides on the risk type of the...
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In this paper, I analyse the relationship between job-related training and career progress of workers. Most theories of career paths and task assignment rely on human capital accumulation. Therefore, it seems natural to start assessing the empirical validity of such theories by analysing the...
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We propose a two-period matching model of firms and managers to argue that managerial career concerns may not guarantee … assortative matching in the market for reputation. In the model, firms compete for managerial talent, and managers are concerned … about their reputations. The market updates managers' reputations whenever their performance is available, which leads to …
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management position. However, if non-contractible managerial decision rights give rise to private benefits and preference … misalignment between managers and the firm, these two purposes are in conflict. This is because the worker with the largest private …: employees that create lower expected profits as managers have yet better promotion prospects. That finding still holds when the …
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This paper studies career spillovers across workers, which arise in firms with limited promotion opportunities. We exploit a 2011 Italian pension reform that unexpectedly tightened eligibility criteria for the public pension, leading to sudden, substantial, and heterogeneous retirement delays....
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