TY  - JOUR
AU  - Weiss,Andrew
AU  - Landau,Henry
TI  - On the Negative Correlation Between Performance and Experience and Education
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 1613
PY  - 1985
Y2  - April 1985
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w1613
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w1613.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Andrew Weiss
Weiss Asset Management
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Boston, MA 02116
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E-Mail: aweiss@weissasset.com
AB  - We consider a model where a worker's productivity must exceed some lower bound for himto satisfy the minimum qualifications for a particular job. If the worker's productivity exceeds some upper bound he is promoted. We assume the productivity of every worker increases with experience, tenure and education. This relationship differs across workers. We present distributions of workers with the property that, among workers on a particular job, education, experience, or tenure is negatively correlated with productivity; even though for any single worker on that job those demographic characteristics have strongly positive effects on productivity. The result is due to the effect of the job assignment rule on the distribution of workers on the job.
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