Career concerns: a human capital perspective
Year: 2011
Type: article
Abstract: 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 affects implicit incentives for performance. We show that standard results from the career concerns literature can be reversed in the presence of human capital acquisition. Namely, implicit incentives need not decrease over time and may decrease with the degree of uncertainty about an individual's talent. Furthermore, increasing the precision 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.
Source: Americanae (AECID Library)
Authors: Braz Camargo, Elena Pastorino
Institution: Fundação Getulio Vargas
Language: English
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1497149199