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Autor:
Jed DeVaro
Publikováno v:
Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society. 61:327-352
Autor:
Jed DeVaro, Suraj Prasad
Publikováno v:
SSRN Electronic Journal.
Autor:
Oliver Gürtler, Jed DeVaro
Publikováno v:
SSRN Electronic Journal.
We provide a new theory to explain why firms multitask workers rather than specializing them. Workers over-perform in tasks they like and under-perform in tasks they dislike, to favorably influence future job assignments. Anticipating this, firms may
Autor:
Jed DeVaro, Dana Brookshire
Publikováno v:
SSRN Electronic Journal.
Using data from the 1992-95 Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality employer survey, the authors document a new empirical finding that workers are less likely to receive promotions in nonprofit organizations than in for-profit firms. The study also unco
Autor:
Jed DeVaro
Publikováno v:
SSRN Electronic Journal.
I estimate the effect of team production on labor productivity and product quality using a cross-section of British establishments, finding that the typical establishment enjoys statistically significant increases in labor productivity (but not produ
Publikováno v:
SSRN Electronic Journal.
We extend promotion signaling theory to generate new testable implications concerning racial differences in promotions. In our model, promotions signal worker ability. When tasks differ substantially across job levels, the opportunity cost of not pro
Autor:
Jed DeVaro
Publikováno v:
SSRN Electronic Journal.
I estimate a structural model of teams, autonomy, and financial performance, using a large cross section of British establishments. My findings suggest that team production does in fact improve financial performance for the typical establishment but
Publikováno v:
American Political Science Review. 115:1358-1372
Incumbents in electoral regimes often retain power despite having to regularly compete in multiparty elections. We examine a specific channel through which incumbents can seek to prevent the emergence of a strong opposition that might threaten them i
Publikováno v:
The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization.
Talented, ambitious workers (big fish) often join highly competitive organizations (big ponds), though they sometimes instead choose less competitive organizations (small ponds) offering brighter promotion prospects. Big fish exist in both types of o
Autor:
Xiaodong Fan, Jed DeVaro
Publikováno v:
The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization. 36:84-138
A model of employer learning (both symmetric and asymmetric) about worker ability from job histories is constructed, and testable implications are derived to detect asymmetric learning empirically. The model predicts that early-career bad job matches