workforce by lowering the hiring standard for blacks. Despite such a diversity goal at hiring, task assignment and promotion … similar promotion rates. I test the model's predictions using new data from the After the JD study -- a unique longitudinal … partner. This black-white difference in promotion rates can be explained by quality differences in task assignments early in …

probit estimation in order to extract the relationship between the probability of overtime and of promotion. Unobserved … respect to overtime and promotion adjustments, is split into two estimates. On the one hand we do not distinguish between the … a promotion reduces the probability to leave the firm while overtime is positively associated with an external job …

Consider a model with two types of jobs. The profitability of promoting a worker to a fast-track job depends not only … may lead to higher promotion standards for women. If employers expect women to do more household work than men, thereby … exerting less effort in their paid job, then women must be more talented to make promotion profitable. Moreover, specialization …

Using a panel of new firms and their employees, this paper studies the promotion opportunities for older workers within … the same firm. Survival analysis suggests that younger employees experience shorter times to promotion than older workers … and, therefore, the latter face a smaller likelihood of promotion. Although men are promoted more often than women …

hypothesis that males are more risk taking than females, and its implications for rates of promotion and abilities of survivors …. I define promotion hierarchies with and without memory, where memory means that promotion depends on the entire history … promotion standards are chosen to maximize profit, the standards will reflect gender in ways that are difficult to distinguish …

This paper presents a novel model of promotion within the firm which sheds new light on the interplay between working … hours and the odds of subsequent promotion. The model's key feature is the coexistence of two different sources of …, and derive an empirical testable hypothesis that the correlation between working hours and subsequent promotion will be …

panel dataset of employees from Latin America's largest MFI to show that gender gaps favouring men for promotion exist … officers in the sales division, the gender gap in promotion and wages reverses. Finally, female employees tend to work with …