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Strategic recruiting in ongoing hierarchies

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This paper describes a hierarchy with peer hiring to explore the reasons behind the management rule “A’s hire A’s and B’s hire C’s”. Workers are promoted based on talent and therefore like to hire less talented co-workers. This is why B’s hire C’s. The same logic should cause A’s to hire B’s, but there is a trade-off in the model: A’s are more likely to be promoted, and a manager profits from more talented subordinates. If this effect is strong enough, then indeed A’s hire A’s.

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  • Goldlücke, Susanne, 2017. "Strategic recruiting in ongoing hierarchies," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 156(C), pages 176-178.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:156:y:2017:i:c:p:176-178
    DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2017.05.011
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    Keywords

    Peer hiring; Hierarchies; Promotions;
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    JEL classification:

    • M51 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Personnel Economics - - - Firm Employment Decisions; Promotions
    • D23 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Organizational Behavior; Transaction Costs; Property Rights
    • J41 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Labor Contracts

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