Internal promotion versus external recruitment : evidence in industrial plants
Bayo Moriones, José Alberto (Universidad Pública de Navarra. Departamento de Gestión de Empresas)
Ortín Ángel, Pedro 1968 (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Empresa)
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Empresa

Imprint:	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia de l'Empresa 2003
Abstract:	An analysis is carried out in a sample of 738 industrial plants of the determining factors in the use of internal promotion of blue-collar workers to middle managers and skilled technicians as against their external recruitment. The use of internal promotion is positively correlated with variables indicative of the efforts made by plants to measure employees' skills, and to a lesser extent, with the level of specificity of investments in human capital made by blue-collar workers. Contrary to what was expected, variables related with the use and efficiency of other incentive systems have no significant influence on the increased or decreased use of internal promotion. These results are initial evidence that internal promotions are used to protect and favour specific investments, especially those made by firms in order to discover their workers' skills.
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Language:	Anglès
Series:	Departament d'Economia de l'Empresa. Documents de treball
Series:	Document de treball (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia de l'Empresa) ; 03/3
Document:	Working paper
Subject:	Incentius en la indústria

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