Personnel economics is the application of economic and mathematical approaches to
traditional topics in the study of human resource management. This includes such topics as …

This article investigates the long‐term effects on immigrant earnings and employment of
labour market conditions encountered upon arrival. We find that early earnings assimilation …

This essay analyzes how behavioral economics can be applied to organizations, and how it
can be enriched by thinking about the economic questions associated with economic …

In corporate contests, employees compete for a prize. Ideally, contests induce employees to
exert productive effort which increases their probability of winning. In many environments …

This paper presents a theoretical model that combines employers learning about worker
productivity, human capital acquisition, job-assignment and resolution of worker uncertainty …

This paper examines the differential effects of the unemployment rate at entry to the labor
market, defined as completion of education, on subsequent wages across race and gender …

Formal salary systems are commonplace among medium to large-sized firms and within the
United States government. However, there is little evidence regarding the costs, if any, of …

This paper uses a unique historical dataset constructed from the payroll records of Williams
Deacon's Bank to examine career structures in a white collar firm. We examine promotions …

This paper studies the dispersion around the expected compensation of workers before and
after controlling for hierarchical positions in cross‐section data samples. From data for …

L'Insee a constitué un panel d'agents civils de la fonction publique d'État, sur une longue
période (1978-2005). Ce panel permet de suivre, pour la première fois, les carrières et les …