Jed DeVaro

TL;DR: This paper studied gender differences in promotion rates and in the wage gains attached to promotions and found that women have lower probabilities of promotion and expected promotion than do men but that there is essentially no gender difference in wage growth with or without promotions.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the role of promotions as a signal of worker ability by focusing on how the signaling role of promotion varies with education and then investigated the resulting predictions using a longitudinal data set that contains detailed information concerning the internal-labor-market history of a medium-sized firm in the financial services industry.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate empirically the proposition that firms strategically organize promotion tournaments to motivate workers to higher levels of performance and present evidence suggesting that relative performance of workers determines promotions, supporting the notion of internal promotion competitions.

TL;DR: The authors evaluate the empirical relevance of the Job Characteristics Model of Hackman and Oldham in the modern organizational environment using unique, nationally representative data from a survey of British establishments and find the results for task variety are stronger for the performance-related outcomes than for worker satisfaction.