Different countries display different patterns in labor mobility, promotion, earning distribution, and provision of firm-sponsored training. Although economists have developed many building-block models that allow them to analyze subsets of those labor market characteristics, few models predict...

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 asymmetric information: (i) the worker's cost of long working...

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 asymmetric information: (i) the worker's cost of long working...