Effort-based career opportunities and working time
By: by Massimiliano Bratti, Stefano Staffolani.
Contributors: Staffolani, Stefano
Series: Discussion paper ;; no. 1474; Discussion paper (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit : Online) ;; no. 1474
Publisher: IZA
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Bonn, Germany
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Hours of labor -- Great Britain.; Promotions -- Great Britain.
Description: "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' 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"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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