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The promotion dynamics of American executives

Belzil, Christian (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Promotion determinants in corporate hierarchies : an examination of fast tracks and functional area

Belzil, Christian; Bognanno, Michael Leonard; Poinas, … - 2012

This article estimates a dynamic reduced-form model of intra-firm promotions using an employer-employee panel of over 300 of the largest corporations in the U.S. in the period from 1981 to 1988. The estimation conditions on unobserved individual heterogeneity and allows for both an endogenous...

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Can insider power affect employment?

Díaz-Vázquez, Pilar; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002

Do firms reduce employment when their insiders (established, incumbent employees) claim higher wages? The conventional answer in the theoretical literature is that insider power has no influence on employment, provided that the newly hired employees (entrants) receive their reservation wages....

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Unobserved ability and the return to schooling

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 2002

We estimate a structural dynamic programming model of schooling decisions with unobserved heterogeneity in school ability and market ability on a sample taken from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). Both the instantaneous utility of attending school and the wage regression...

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Earnings dispersion, risk aversion and eduation

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 2002

We estimate a dynamic programming model of schooling decisions in which the degree of risk aversion can be inferred from schooling decisions. In our model, individuals are heterogeneous with respect to school and market abilities but homogeneous with respect to the degree of risk aversion. We...

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Unemployment invariance

Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002

This paper provides a critique of the "unemployment invariance hypothesis", according to which the behavior of the labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity, and the labor force. Using Solow growth and endogenous growth...

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From unemployment benefits to unemployment accounts

Orszag, Jonathan Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002

We explore the implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by unemployment accounts (UA). Under the UA system, employed people would be required to make ongoing contributions to their unemployment accounts, and the balances in these accounts would then be available to...

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Incapacity benefits and employment policy

Orszag, Jonathan Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002

The paper explores the employment implications of allowing people the opportunity of using a portion of their incapacity benefits to provide employment vouchers for employers that hire them. The analysis indicates that introducing this policy could increase employment, raise the incomes of...

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The insider-outsider theory : a survey

Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002

This article is an idiosyncratic survey of the insider-outsider theory, describing the vision underlying the theory … been dead-ends and red herrings in past research. The first section deals with the theory, concerning how labor turnover … shocks. The second section deals with the insider-outsider theory in relation to two important economic institutions: unions …

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Wage determination and the sources of bargaining power

Manzini, Paola; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002

the bargaining process itself. This approach leads to a new theory of wage determination. …

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