I study the life-cycle pattern of part-time employment and its impact on wage growth in female careers. I show that the part-time wage penalty consists of two essential components: i) a penalty for promotions and ii) a within-career-level wage penalty. Using dynamic structural modeling, I...

Within-firm promotion competitions share a number of common features with sports tournaments, such as prior commitment to payouts, the pool of contestants is known to the participant, and rank ordering of competitors by performance. Key predictions of tournament theory include: convex pay...

Based on the quasi-natural experiment of the relaxation of bank access(BA) conditions in the exchange market, this study implements a difference-in-differences (DID) analysis to investigate the impact on the credit interest rate. We empirically find that bank access improves liquidity and...

How does group identity influence promotion decisions and what impact does it have on the performance of organizations through promotions? We provide answers based on two experiments in which we identify the effect of group identity on the employers’ preferences regarding whom to promote,...

Using data from the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality (MCSUI) employer survey, we document a new empirical finding that workers are less likely to receive promotions in nonprofit organizations than in for-profit firms. Among other results, we also show that: wage increases associated with...

Extrait mis à jour : une approche intégrée englobant santé, commerce et propriété intellectuelle pour répondre à la pandémie de COVID-19, 30 août 2021. La pandémie de COVID-19 constitue une crise de santé publique mondiale extraordinaire. Elle a rendu nécessaire l’intensification...