Referred Publications

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The Labor Market Effects of Employer Recruitment Choice, Working Papers (2007)
[Excerpt] I analyze employer recruitment decisions using a dynamic, discrete-choice structural model that I estimate...
 

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New Evidence on Gender Differences in Promotion Rates: An Empirical Analysis of a Sample of New Hires (with Francine D. Blau), Articles & Chapters (2007)
[Excerpt] Using a large sample of establishments drawn from the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality...
 

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The Effect of Self-Managed and Closely-Managed Teams on Labor Productivity and Product Quality: An Empirical Analysis of a Cross Section of Establishments, Working Papers (2007)
[Excerpt] I estimate the effect of team production on labor productivity and product quality using...
 

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Analyzing the Job Characteristics Model: New Support From a Cross Section of Establishments, International Journal of Human Resource Management (2007)
We evaluate the empirical relevance of the Job Characteristics Model of Hackman and Oldham in...
 

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Promotions and Incentives in Nonprofit and For-Profit Organizations (with Dana Brookshire), Articles & Chapters (2007)
[Excerpt] Using data from the 1992–95 Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality, an employer survey, the...
 

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Do the Best Companies to Work for Provide Better Customer Satisfaction? (with Daniel H. Simon), Articles & Chapters (2006)
[Excerpt] Using data from both the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) and Fortune Magazine’s lists...
 

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Internal Promotion Competitions in Firms, Articles & Chapters (2006)
[Excerpt] Using a sample of skilled workers from a cross section of establishments in four...
 

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Strategic Promotion Tournaments and Worker Performance, Articles & Chapters (2006)
[Excerpt] In this analysis I study promotion schemes as human resource management strategies by which...
 

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Teams, Autonomy, and the Financial Performance of Firms, Articles & Chapters (2006)
[Excerpt] I estimate a structural model of teams, autonomy, and financial performance, using a cross...
 

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What Types of Organizations Benefit from Team Production, and How Do They Benefit? (with Fidan Ana Kurtulus), Articles & Chapters (2006)
[Excerpt] Using data from a large cross section of British establishments, we ask how different...
 

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Employer Recruitment Strategies and the Labor Market Outcomes of New Hires, Articles & Chapters (2005)
[Excerpt] The results in this paper suggest, among other things, a strong association between recruitment...
 

Submitted Articles

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The Signaling Role of Promotions: Further Theory and Empirical Evidence (with Michael Waldman), Working Papers (2007)
[Excerpt] An extensive theoretical literature has developed that investigates the role of promotions as a...
 

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An Empirical Analysis of Risk, Incentives, and the Delegation of Worker Authority (with Fidan Ana Kurtulus), Working Papers (2007)
[Excerpt] The notion of a negative relationship between risk and incentives is a central prediction...
 

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Gender Bias in Power Relationships: Evidence from Police Traffic Stops (with Garrick Blalock, Stephanie Leventhal, and Daniel H. Simon), Working Papers (2007)
[Excerpt] We test for the existence of gender bias in power relationships. Specifically, we examine...
 

Work in Progress

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Job Characteristics and Labor Market Discrimination in Promotions: New Theory and Empirical Evidence (with Suman Ghosh and Cindy Zoghi), Working Papers (2007)
[Excerpt] We present new theory and the first empirical test of promotion discrimination models based...
 
Assessing the Effects of Classification Errors in Discrete Covariates in Qualitative Response Models (with Henri Fraisse), in progress (2007)
 
Internal Versus External Hiring Policies: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis (with Hodaka Morita), (in progress) (2007)
 
The Effects of Affirmative Action Policies on the Recruitment of New Hires, in progress (2007)
 
Why Do Firms Offer Fast-Track Promotions?, in progress (2007)
 

Unpublished Working Papers

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Employer Strategies for Recruitment and Screening: High-Performance Systems or Diminishing Returns? (with Gary S. Fields), Working Papers (2008)
We study the effects of recruitment and screening methods on worker performance. If high-performance recruitment...
 

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Waging the War for Talent: Do Recruitment and Screening Strategies Raise Employee Performance? (with Gary S. Fields), Working Papers (2005)
We use data from the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality to provide an empirical answer...
 

Other Publications

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Book Review for: Garibaldi, Pietro, Personnel Economics in Imperfect Labour Markets (2006)
Book Review for: Garibaldi, Pietro, Personnel Economics in Imperfect Labour Markets, <em>Industrial and Labor Relations...
 

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Doing the Right Jobs Right: Managers’ Attributes and Activities at Borders (with Gary S. Fields), Working Papers (2005)
[Excerpt] This article starts with a simple value proposition: that companies can save large sums...
 

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Book Review for: Rosen, Sherwin, Markets and Diversity (2004)
Book Review for: Rosen, Sherwin, Markets and Diversity, in <em>Labor History</em>, Volume 45, Number 4,...
 
One Talent or Many? Million Dollar Variables and Statistically Significant Indexes (with Gary Fields) (2004)
 

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The Effect of Employer Recruitment Strategies on Job Placements and Match Quality (2001)
The Effect of Employer Recruitment Strategies on Job Placements and Match Quality,” Stanford Institute for...
 

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Was the Disinflation of the Early 1980s Anticipated? Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Economic Quarterly, Fall 1995, 41-60. (with Michael Dotsey) (1995)
 

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Errors in Variables and Lending Discrimination, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Economic Quarterly, 81(3), Summer 1995, 19-32. (with Jeffrey Lacker) (1995)