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Promotions and Earnings – Gender or Merit? Evidence from Longitudinal Personnel Data
Juho JokinenJaakko Pehkonensubject
palkkaerotOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource ManagementLabour economicsJob Laddersylennyksetindividual productivityjob complexityStrategy and Managementmedia_common.quotation_subjectPromotion (rank)Management of Technology and Innovationtuloerot0502 economics and business050602 political science & public administrationRemuneration050207 economicsProxy (statistics)Productivitymedia_commonEarnings05 social sciencesurakehitysperformance evaluation0506 political sciencetasa-arvogender pay gaperiarvoisuusJob evaluationBusinessGender pay gapdescription
This study examines the determinants of promotions, performance evaluations and earnings using unique longitudinal data from the personnel records of a large university. The study focuses on the role of gender in remuneration using, first, information on the complexity ratings of job tasks to define promotions on job ladders and, second, information on objective individual productivity. The study finds that individual research productivity was an important determinant of promotions and earnings. The results indicate that gender has no effect on the probability of being promoted, conditional on productivity, nor does it play a role in the performance evaluation of employees. Furthermore, the results suggest that contemporaneous productivity measures provide a usable proxy for the past productivity of a worker. peerReviewed
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-07-13 | Journal of Labor Research |