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Title: Employment Relationships over Time: Retention and Promotion
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1. Prisinzano, Richard Paul
Employment Relationships over Time: Retention and Promotion
Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, University of Texas at Austin, 2004.
Also: https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/3523
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: University of Texas at Austin
Keyword(s): Gender Differences; Job Promotion; Job Tenure; Job Turnover

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In this dissertation, I examine how available information affects promotion and turnover decisions in internal labor markets. In the second essay, I use the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data to explore the factors that are important determinants of an individual's promotion. One issue that arises in estimating the probability of promotion from longitudinal work history data is that researchers only observe promotion for individuals who remain at a job between interviews. I improve upon earlier studies by using a bivariate probit analysis to correct the bias from partial observability and provide more informative estimates of the promotion process. These new estimates allow differences in promotion rates across demographic groups to be decomposed into differences in the probability of promotion conditional on staying and differences in the probability of staying. In the third essay, we explore the differential patterns of job attachment between men and women by examining how men and women respond to promotion expectations. Using the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we find that early in their career women with low promotion expectations are more likely to stay on a job than corresponding men. We also find that this difference diminishes with experience.
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Prisinzano, Richard Paul. Employment Relationships over Time: Retention and Promotion. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, University of Texas at Austin, 2004..