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Enriching a Theory of Wage and Promotion Dynamics Inside Firms

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dc.creator Gibbons, Robert
dc.creator Waldman, Michael
dc.date 2003-08-01T20:14:51Z
dc.date 2003-08-01T20:14:51Z
dc.date 2003-08-01T20:14:51Z
dc.date.accessioned 2013-06-04T16:19:47Z
dc.date.available 2013-06-04T16:19:47Z
dc.date.issued 2013-06-05
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/3537
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/1721
dc.description 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 model and derive a number of testable implications that we then compare with the available empirical evidence. Second, and more important, we show that introducing "task-specific" human capital allows us to produce cohort effects (i.e., the finding that a cohort that enters a firm at a low wage will continue to earn below-average wages years later). We argue that task-specific human capital is a realistic concept and may have many important implications. We also discuss limitations of our (extended) approach
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dc.language en_US
dc.relation MIT Sloan School of Management Working Paper;4324-03
dc.relation IWER Working Paper No.;07-2003
dc.subject Wage Dynamics
dc.subject Promotion Dynamics
dc.subject Human Capital
dc.title Enriching a Theory of Wage and Promotion Dynamics Inside Firms
dc.type Working Paper


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