Effort-based career opportunities and working time

Publication type

Research Paper

Series Number

2005-02

Series

University of Milan: Department of Economics Working Papers

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Publication date

June 1, 2005

Abstract:

In this paper we describe the hypothesis of effort-based career opportunities as a situation in which profit maximizing firms create incentives for employees to work longer hours than the bargained ones, by making career prospects dependent on working hours. When effort-based career opportunities are effective, they raise working time and output per worker reducing workers?Äô utility. A first attempt is made to empirically estimate the relationship between hours worked and the expected opportunities of promotion using the British Household Panel Survey data set. Our analysis shows that the perceived probability of promotion increases with working time and that this result is robust to various econometric specifications

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- http://ideas.repec.org/p/mil/wpdepa/2005-02.html

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