2012-07-20
On the Merits of Meritocracy
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We study career choice when competition for promotion is a contest. A more meritocratic profession always succeeds in attracting the highest ability types, whereas a profession with superior promotion benefits attracts high types only if the hazard rate of the noise in performance evaluation is strictly increasing. Raising promotion opportunities produces no systematic effect on the talent distribution, while a higher base wage attracts talent only if total promotion opportunities are sufficiently plentiful
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Morgan, J., Sisak, D., & Vardy, F. (2012). On the Merits of Meritocracy
(No. TI 12-077/1). Discussion paper / Tinbergen Institute (pp. 1–45). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1765/34712 |