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Inequality in the Economics Profession
Singhal, Karan; Sierminska, Eva - 2024
, publication processes, employment opportunities, and promotion and tenure considerations, as well as recent developments related … dedicated to promoting inclusivity and diversity through mentoring initiatives, research grants, and other forms of support. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015210934
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Gender, productivity, and promotion in the Irish economics profession
Devereux, Kevin; Samahita, Margaret - 2022
acceptance as well as promotion. We focus on a selfdirected measure of productivity: working paper output. This avoids potential … departments, and that authors with more working papers get promoted at higher rates. We do not find any differences in promotion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013427625
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Overconfidence and Gender Equality in the Labor Market
Bastani, Spencer; Giebe, Thomas; Gürtler, Oliver - 2023
vehicle of analysis is a promotion-signaling model in which wages are realistically determined by market forces. We find that … overconfident workers exert more effort to be promoted, and even though they have lower expected ability conditional on promotion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014290249
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Competition and Career Advancement
Johnsen, Julian; Ku, Hyejin; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2023
In standard promotion tournaments, contestants are ranked based on their output or productivity. We argue that workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377551
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Desperately Seeking a Japanese Yokozuna
Brunello, Giorgio; Yamamura, Eiji - 2023
Using data on wrestlers and tournaments since the early 1970s, we study promotion practices in Sumo, a Japanese …. Together with the 2010 Reform that effectively restricted access to foreign-born wrestlers, existing promotion practices may …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469730
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The effects of differential exposure to COVID-19 on educational outcomes in Guatemala
Ham, Andrés; Vazquez, Emmanuel; Yáñez-Pagans, Mónica - 2023
differences over time in the warning index to estimate the effects of the pandemic on dropout, promotion, and school switching …. The results show that municipalities with a higher warning index had significantly larger dropout, lower promotion rates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014518178
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Strive to be first or avoid being last: An experiment on relative performance incentives.
Dutcher, E. Glenn; Balafoutas, Loukas; Lindner, Florian; … - 2013
Managers often use tournaments which motivate workers to compete for the top, compete to avoid the bottom, or both. In this paper we compare the effectiveness and efficiency of the corresponding incentive schemes. To do so, we utilize optimal contracts in a principal-agent setting, using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312236
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Rent seeking in hierachical firms
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2002
hierarchical firm. In the state enterprise, promotion of employees through the internal hierarchy is determined by the workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318354
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Competition and Career Advancement:The Hidden Costs of Paid Leave
Johnsen, Julian; Ku, Hyejin; Salvanes, Kjell G - 2020
Does leave-taking matter for young workers' careers? If so, why? We propose the competition effect - relative leave status of workers affecting their relative standing inside the firm - as a new explanation. Exploiting a policy reform that exogenously assigned four-week paid paternity leave to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532869
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Baby Bumps in the Road: The Impact of Parenthood on Job Performance, Human Capital, and Career Advancement
Healy, Olivia; Heissel, Jennifer A. - 2024
promotion grow through 24 months postbirth. Fathers' physical fitness performance drops somewhat but recovers. These patterns …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014534031