Age and opportunities for promotion

C. Sofia Machado () and Miguel Portela ()
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C. Sofia Machado: Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave

No 03/2011, NIPE Working Papers from NIPE - Universidade do Minho

Abstract: Using a panel of new firms and their employees, this paper studies the promotion opportunities for older workers within the same firm. Survival analysis suggests that younger employees experience shorter times to promotion than older workers and, therefore, the latter face a smaller likelihood of promotion. Although men are promoted more often than women, empirical results show that women have shorter survival times to promotion than men. Also, previous promotions are stronger determinants of subsequent ones and this finding provides support to the evidence on promotion “fast-tracks”.

Keywords: aging; older workers; employment relationships; promotion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D21 J14 J21 J62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-age, nep-bec, nep-hrm, nep-lab and nep-mic
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