Working Hours and Top Management Appointments: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data
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Keywords
rat race; working hours; promotions; top management appointments; human capital; job assignment; adverse selection; tournament;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- M5 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Personnel Economics
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HRM-2018-09-03 (Human Capital and Human Resource Management)
- NEP-LMA-2018-09-03 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages)
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