Promotion, Turnover and Compensation in the Executive Market

George-Levi Gayle (), Limor Golan () and Robert A. Miller
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Robert A. Miller: Carnegie Mellon

No 118, 2009 Meeting Papers from Society for Economic Dynamics

Abstract: This paper is an empirical study of the market for managers, more specifically the effects of agency, human capital, and preferences on their promotion, tenure, turnover and compensation. From a large longitudinal data set compiled from observations on executives and their publicly listed firms, we construct a career hierarchy and report on its main features. Our summary results motivate a dynamic competitive equilibrium model, whose parameters we identify and estimate. Controlling for heterogeneity amongst firms, which differ by size and sector, and also managers, whose backgrounds vary by age, gender and education, our estimates are used to evaluate how important moral hazard and job experience are in jointly determining promotion rates, turnover and compensation.

Date: 2009
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