Career concerns: a human capital perspective


Autoria(s): Camargo, Bráz Ministério de; Pastorino, Elena
Data(s)

12/09/2012

12/09/2012

12/09/2012

Resumo

We introduce human capital accumulation, in the form of learning by doing, in a life cycle model of career concerns and analyze how human capital acquisition a ects implicit incentives for performance. We show that standard results from the career concerns literature can be reversed in the presence of human capital accumulation. Namely, implicit incentives need not decrease over time and may decrease with the degree of uncertainty about an individual's talent. Furthermore, increasing the pre-cision of output measurement can weaken rather than strengthen implicit incentives. Overall, our results contribute to shed new light on the ability of markets to discipline moral hazard in the absence of explicit contracts linking pay to performance.

Identificador

TD 288

http://hdl.handle.net/10438/10002

Relação

Textos para discussão EESP;TD 288

Palavras-Chave #Career concerns #Reputation #Human capital #Profissões #Capital humano
Tipo

Working Paper