TY  - JOUR
AU  - Abraham,Katharine G.
AU  - Medoff,James L.
TI  - Years of Service and Probability of Promotion
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 1191
PY  - 1983
Y2  - August 1983
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w1191
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w1191.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Katharine G. Abraham
Joint Program in Survey Methodology
1218 LeFrak Hall
University of Maryland
College Park, MD  20742
Tel: 301/405-1004
Fax: 301/314-7912
E-Mail: kabraham@survey.umd.edu

James L. Medoff
Department of Economics
Harvard University
Littauer Center 115
Cambridge, MA  02138
Tel: 617/495-4209
E-Mail: jmedoff@harvard.edu
AB  - This study provides evidence which we believe challenges some conventional assumptions about the promotion process. Based on survey information collected from a large random sample of U.S. private sector firms, we reach two main conclusions. First,seniority independent of productivity appears to play a significant role even in nonunion promotion decisions. Second, the differences between union and nonunion promotion processes, at least with regard to the weight assigned to seniority per se, appear to be important but less dramatic than is popularly supposed.
ER  -