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Gender promotion gaps in knowledge work : the role of task assignment in teams

Bircan, Çağatay; Friebel, Guido; Stahl, Tristan - 2025

Using rich data on personnel records, work assignments, and performance in a financial institu- tion, we uncover the mechanisms leading to promotion gaps in knowledge teamwork. We find a substantial promotion gap for women in early career stages. Analyzing over 10,000 investment projects reveals...

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Gender promotion gaps in knowledge work : the role of task assignment in teams

Bircan, Cagatay; Friebel, Guido; Stahl, Tristan - 2025

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Gender promotion gaps in knowledge work : the role of task assignment in teams

Bircan, C̦ağatay; Friebel, Guido; Stahl, Tristan - 2024

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Crowded career ladders? : intra-firm spillovers of raised retirement age

Badalyan, Sona - 2026

I study how delayed retirements reshape firms internal labor markets, leveraging a German reform that raised womens early retirement age by at least three years. The reform increased retention of older women and reduced both internal promotions and external hiring of younger coworkers, with the...

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Crowded career ladders? : intra-firm spillovers of raised retirement age

Badalyan, Sona - 2025

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Depth or breadth? : how skill profiles shape promotion decisions in internal labor markets

Ivanova, Olga; Barbulescu, Roxana - 2026

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Crowded career ladders? : intra-firm spillovers of raised retirement age

Badalyan, Sona - 2026

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Crowded career ladders? : intra-firm spillovers of raised retirement age

Badalyan, Sona - 2025

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Information asymmetry in the scientific labor market : the role of relational links

Boutros, Pierre; Pezzoni, Michele; Nesta, Lionel; Paty, … - 2026

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Unpacking the child penalty using personnel data : how promotion practices widen the gender pay gap

Okuyama, Yoko; Murooka, Takeshi; Yamaguchi, Shintarō - 2026

We estimate the child penalty using detailed personnel records that allow decomposition into distinct pay components. The penalty initially arises from reductions in time-based pay after childbirth. Over time, job-rank-based pay becomes increasingly significant. These effects are interconnected:...

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Unpacking the child penalty using personnel data : how promotion practices widen the gender pay gap

Okuyama, Yoko; Murooka, Takeshi; Yamaguchi, Shintarō - 2025

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Unpacking the child penalty using personnel data : how promotion practices widen the gender pay gap

Okuyama, Yoko; Murooka, Takeshi; Yamaguchi, Shintarō - 2025

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Internal pay equity and the quantity-quality trade-off in hiring

Amior, Michael; San, Shmuel - 2026

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Unpacking the child penalty using personnel data : how promotion practices widen the gender pay gap

Okuyama, Yoko; Murooka, Takeshi; Yamaguchi, Shintarō - 2026

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Unpacking the child penalty using personnel data : how promotion practices widen the gender pay gap

Okuyama, Yoko; Murooka, Takeshi; Yamaguchi, Shintarō - 2025

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Unpacking the child penalty using personnel data : how promotion practices widen the gender pay gap

Okuyama, Yoko; Murooka, Takeshi; Yamaguchi, Shintarō - 2025

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Job matches and mobility of high wage workers in an international labor market

Peeters, Thomas; Ours, Jan C. van - 2026

We examine worker-to-firm matching in a high-wage international labor market encompassing nine European countries. Employment matches are ranked along two key dimensions: worker productivity, defined by contributions to physical output, and firm productivity, measured by the ability to generate...

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Gender promotion gaps in knowledge work: The role of task assignment in teams

Bircan, Çağatay; Friebel, Guido; Stahl, Tristan - 2025

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Making the invisible hand visible : managers and the allocation of workers to jobs

Minni, Virginia - 2026

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Making the invisible hand visible : managers and the allocation of workers to jobs

Minni, Virginia - 2025

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Does performance pay deter job quits?

Artz, Benjamin; Heywood, John S. - 2025

We use US longitudinal survey data to examine the role of performance pay (other than profit sharing) in worker quit decisions. We argue that performance pay should increasingly be viewed as an indicator of an internal labor market rather than of a simple contemporaneous incentive. Suggestive of...

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Talent management : the role of bosses

Friebel, Guido; Raith, Michael - 2025

Managers ("bosses") are central to the development and allocation of human capital in firms because they train employees and learn about their abilities. While a multi-divisional firm wants to allocate workers to wherever they are most productive, bosses who are rewarded for their units'...

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Firm productivity and the internal-versus-external hiring decision

Alonso, Ricardo; DeVaro, Jed; Kauhanen, Antti; Valmari, … - 2026

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Making the invisible hand visible : managers and the allocation of workers to jobs

Minni, Virginia - 2026

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Making the invisible hand visible : managers and the allocation of workers to jobs

Minni, Virginia - 2025

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Increasing the retirement age : how firms adjust workforce and wages

Sturm, Patrick - 2025

This paper studies firm adjustments in response to a working life extension of older female employees. Specifically, I exploit the German 1999 pension reform that eliminated an early retirement pathway for women, causing an increase in their early retirement age by three years for those born...

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Internal promotion or external hire? : staffing management positions when employees have a seat in the boardroom

Gregorič, Aleksandra; Kato, Takao; Larsen, Casper Berg … - 2024

We join the scholarly conversation on the implications of the different configurations of firms' stakeholder coalitions for their employment practices, by investigating how the structural arrangements granting employees a role in firm boards of directors (employee governance representation, EGR)...

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Stable matching on the job? : theory and evidence on internal talent markets

Cowgill, Bo; Davis, Jonathan; Montagnes, B. Pablo; … - 2025

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Stable matching on the job? : theory and evidence on internal talent markets

Cowgill, Bo; Davis, Jonathan; Montagnes, Pablo B.; … - 2024

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Stable matching on the job? : theory and evidence on internal talent markets

Cowgill, Bo; Davis, Jonathan; Montagnes, B. Pablo; … - 2024

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Business groups' internal labour markets and SME labour productivity

Doucet, Pablo; Requejo, Ignacio; Suárez González, Isabel - 2024

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Performance pay and job quits

Artz, Benjamin; Heywood, John S. - 2025

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Exploiting growth opportunities : the role of internal labor markets

Cestone, Giacinta; Fumagalli, Chiara; Kramarz, Francis; … - 2023 - This version: January 4, 2023

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Exploiting growth opportunities : the role of internal labor markets

Cestone, Giacinta; Fumagalli, Chiara; Kramarz, Francis; … - 2023

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Exploiting growth opportunities : the role of internal labor markets

Cestone, Giacinta; Fumagalli, Chiara; Kramarz, Francis; … - 2023

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Corporate hierarchy

Ewens, Michael; Giroud, Xavier - 2025

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The "administered labor market" reconsidered

Rosenberg, Samuel - 2022

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Restructuring, redeployment and job churning within internal labour markets

MacKenzie, Robert; McLachlan, Christopher J. - 2023

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Longer careers : a barrier to hiring and coworker advancement?

Ferrari, Irene; Kabátek, Jan; Morris, Todd - 2023

Government policies are encouraging older workers to delay retirement, which may curb younger workers' career advancement. We study a Dutch reform that raised the retirement age by 13 months and nearly tripled employment at age 66. Using monthly linked employer-employee data, we show that...

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Longer careers : a barrier to hiring and coworker advancement?

Ferrari, Irene; Kabátek, Jan; Morris, Todd - 2023

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Longer careers : a barrier to hiring and coworker advancement?

Ferrari, Irene; Kabátek, Jan; Morris, Todd - 2023

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Reconsidering occupational internal labor markets : incidence and consequences

Osterman, Paul - 2024

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The human factor in acquisitions : cross-industry labor mobility and corporate diversification

Tate, Geoffrey; Yang, Liu - 2024

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The human factor in acquisitions : cross-industry labor mobility and corporate diversification

Tate, Geoffrey; Yang, Liu - 2015

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Equity carve-outs, dual directors, and internal labor markets

Fan, Pengda - 2022

Given the prevalence of dual directors who serve simultaneously on the parent as well as the subsidiary board, it is important to examine their functions, a topic largely ignored in the existing literature. Exploring the functions of dual directors highlights equity carve-out objectives other...

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Internal Labor Markets : A Case Study

Lima, Francisco - 2022

We select one firm from a large data set of firms and study its internal economics. First we prove that the information available allows us to inspect the personnel policies of the firm. Furthermore, this fact allows moving from the case study to more comprehensive studies in personnel economics...

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Labor supply within the firm

Battisti, Michele; Michaels, Ryan; Park, Choonsung - 2024

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Job Tasks, Skill Formation, and Wages : An Internal Labor Market Approach

Okamura, Kazuaki - 2022

We integrate the task approach and skill formation model in the internal labor market theory. As a skill measure, “intellectual skills” to deal with changes and problems in the workplace is used. We highlight the institutional aspects of the task approach and quantitatively show the...

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Confidence management in contests

Deng, Shanglyu; Fang, Hanming; Fu, Qiang; Wu, Zenan - 2024

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Internal labor markets : a worker flow approach

Huitfeld, Ingrid; Kostøl, Andreas R.; Nimczik, Jan … - 2021 - First version: June 15, 2020. This version: July 30, 2021

This paper develops a new method to study how workers' career and wage profiles are shaped by internal labor markets (ILM) and job hierarchies in firms. Our paper tackles the conceptual challenge of organizing jobs within firms into hierarchy levels by proposing a data-driven ranking method...

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Internal Labor Markets : A Worker Flow Approach

Huitfeld, Ingrid; Kostøl, Andreas R.; Nimczik, Jan … - 2022

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Exploiting growth opportunities : the role of internal labour markets

Cestone, Giacinta; Fumagalli, Chiara; Kramarz, Francis; … - 2024

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Race, glass ceilings, and lower pay for equal work

Hegde, Deepak; Ljungqvist, Alexander; Raj, Manav - 2023

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Race, glass ceilings, and lower pay for equal work

Hegde, Deepak; Ljungqvist, Alexander; Raj, Manav - 2022

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Exploiting growth opportunities : the role of internal labor markets

Cestone, Giacinta; Fumagalli, Chiara; Kramarz, Francis; … - 2023

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Exploiting growth opportunities : the role of internal labor markets

Cestone, Giacinta; Fumagalli, Chiara; Kramarz, Francis; … - 2023 - This version: January 4, 2023

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Exploiting growth opportunities : the role of internal labor markets

Cestone, Giacinta; Fumagalli, Chiara; Kramarz, Francis; … - 2023

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Longer careers : a barrier to hiring and coworker advancement?

Ferrari, Irene; Kabátek, Jan; Morris, Todd - 2023

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Longer careers : a barrier to hiring and coworker advancement?

Ferrari, Irene; Kabátek, Jan; Morris, Todd - 2023

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Longer careers : a barrier to hiring and coworker advancement?

Ferrari, Irene; Kabátek, Jan; Morris, Todd - 2023

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Internal and external labor markets : an analysis of matched longitudinal employer-employee data

Abowd, John M. - 1997

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Internal and External Labor Markets : An Analysis of Matched Longitudinal Employer-Employee Data

Abowd, John M.; Kramarz, Francis - 2021

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Internal and External Labor Markets : An Analysis of Matched Longitudinal Employer-Employee Data

Abowd, John M. - 1997

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Career Spillovers in Internal Labor Markets

Bianchi, Nicola; Bovini, Giulia; Li, Jin; Paradisi, Matteo - 2021

This paper studies career spillovers across workers, which arise in firms with limited promotion opportunities. We exploit a 2011 Italian pension reform that unexpectedly tightened eligibility criteria for the public pension, leading to sudden, substantial, and heterogeneous retirement delays....

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Career Spillovers in Internal Labor Markets

Bianchi, Nicola; Bovini, Giulia; Li, Jin; Paradisi, Matteo - 2021

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Advance 'em to attract 'em : how promotions influence applications in internal talent markets

Keller, JR; Dlugos, Kathryn - 2023

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Career spillovers in internal labour markets

Bianchi, Nicola; Bovini, Giulia; Li, Jin; Paradisi, Matteo - 2023

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A Theory of Wage and Promotion Dynamics in Internal Labor Markets

Gibbons, Robert; Waldman, Michael - 2021

We attempt to explain employment practices in internal labor markets using models that combine job assignment, on-the-job human-capital acquisition, and learning. We show that a framework that integrates these familiar ideas captures a number of recent empirical findings concerning wage and...

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A Theory of Wage and Promotion Dynamics in Internal Labor Markets

Gibbons, Robert - 1998

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Thinking globally, acting locally : applying internal labor market theories to firms with multiple branch offices

Sohn, Joon W.; Gough, Mark D.; Lee, Jae Eun - 2023

This study investigates the effects of organizational factors on firms' adoption and use of internal staffing strategies. In particular, we examine the different effects of firm- and branch-level factors on the adoption of internal development programs and the selection of entry-level employees....

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Constraints on the Level and Efficient Use of Labor in Japan

Ono, Hiroshi; Rebick, Marcus E. - 2021

We examine a number of personnel practices, laws and regulations that lower the supply of labor in the Japanese economy. Broadly speaking, there are two kinds of impediments, those that restrict the movement of labor between firms, and those that discourage women from participating to a greater...

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Constraints on the Level and Efficient Use of Labor in Japan

Ono, Hiroshi - 2003

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The bright side of the internal labor market : evidence from the labor cost stickiness of firms affiliated with privately owned business groups in China

Xu, Hui; Chan, Kam C.; Na, Chaohong; Fang, Qiaoling - 2023

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Enriching a Theory of Wage and Promotion Dynamics Inside Firms

Gibbons, Robert; Waldman, Michael - 2021

In previous work we showed that a model that integrates job assignment, human-capital acquisition, and learning can explain several empirical findings concerning wage and promotion dynamics inside firms. In this paper we extend that model in two ways. First, we incorporate schooling into the...

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Enriching a Theory of Wage and Promotion Dynamics Inside Firms

Gibbons, Robert; Waldman, Michael - 2003

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Enriching a Theory of Wage and Promotion Dynamics Inside Firms

Gibbons, Robert - 2003

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Internal and External Labor Markets : A Personnel Economics Approach

Lazear, Edward P.; Oyer, Paul E. - 2021

Internal labor markets are those where workers are hired into entry level jobs and higher levels are filled from within. Wages are determined internally and may be quite free of market pressure. External labor markets imply that workers move somewhat fluidly between firms and wages are...

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Internal and External Labor Markets : A Personnel Economics Approach

Lazear, Edward P. - 2003

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Internal labor markets and corporate innovation : evidence from Korean chaebols

Lee, Kyounghun; Oh, Frederick Dongchuhl; Shin, Donglim; … - 2023

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Preferences and Productivity in Organizational Matching : Theory and Empirics from Internal Labor Markets

Cowgill, Bo; Davis, Jonathan; Montagnes, B. Pablo; … - 2021

We study the design of managerial practices for matching workers to divisions. Our methods use both sides' preferences to match with each other, and on the employer's expectations about resulting productivities. Our model derives boundary conditions for when dictating assignments outperforms...

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