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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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Dynamic labor reallocation with heterogeneous skills and uninsured idiosyncratic risk

Faia, Ester; Kudlyak, Marianna; Shabalina, Ekaterina - 2021

Occupational specificity of human capital motivates an important role of occupational reallocation for the economy's response to shocks and for the dynamics of inequality. We introduce occupational mobility, through a random choice model with dynamic value function optimization, into a...

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Dynamic labor reallocation with heterogeneous skills and uninsured idiosyncratic risk

Faia, Ester; Shabalina, Ekaterina; Kudlyak, Marianna - 2021

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Firm productivity, wages, and sorting

Lochner, Benjamin; Schulz, Bastian - 2021

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Is Mobility of Technical Personnel a Source of R&D Spillovers?

Møen, Jarle - 2021

Labor mobility is often considered to be an important source of knowledge externalities, making it difficult for firms to appropriate returns to R&D investments. In this paper, I argue that inter-firm transfers of knowledge embodied in people should be analyzed within a human capital framework....

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Hiring Risky Workers

Lazear, Edward P. - 2021

It has long been recognized in finance and other literature that variance provides option value. The same point carries over to the labor market. Firms like variance in new employees because they can keep the good workers and terminate the bad ones. But market wages must adjust to make the...

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Multi-level considerations in executive organizational transfer

Kiefer, Kip; Martin, John A.; Hunt, Richard A. - In: Human resource management review 32 (2022) 1, pp. 1-17

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Managerial Talent, Motivation, and Self-Selection into Public Management

Delfgaauw, Josse - 2010

The quality of public management is a recurrent concern in many countries. Calls to attract the economyﾒs best and brightest managers to the public sector abound. This paper studies self-selection into managerial positions in the public and private sector, using a model of a perfectly...

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The 'Dynamic' of Job Competition During the ICT Revolution

Chéron, Arnaud - 2012

Our paper seeks to gain insights on the effect of labor market institutions on the evolution of overeducation (job competition), unemployment inequalities and job instability during the polarization process of the labor market fostered by the diffusion of novel technologies. Based on micro data,...

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Matching and sorting across regions

Lacava, Chiara - 2021

I measure the effects of workers' mobility across regions of different productivity through the lens of a search and matching model with heterogeneous workers and firms estimated with administrative data. In an application to Italy, I find that reallocation of workers to the most productive...

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