Template-type: ReDif-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Grip Andries de
Author-Name: Sauermann Jan 
Author-Name: Sieben Inge 
Author-workplace-name: METEOR
Title: The role of peers in estimating tenure-performance profiles: evidence from personnel data
Abstract: In this paper, we estimate tenure-performance proles using unique panel data that containdetailed information on individual workers'' performance. We find that a 10 per cent increase intenure leads to an increase in performance of 5.5 per cent of a standard deviation. Thistranslates to an average performance increase of about 75 per cent within the first year of theemployment relationship. Furthermore, we show that there are peer effects in learning on-the-job:Workers placed in teams with more experienced and thus more productive peers performsignificantly better than those placed in teams with less experienced peers. An increase in theaverage team tenure by one standard deviation leads to an increase of 11 to 14 per cent of astandard deviation in performance.
Keywords: labour economics ; 
Series: Research Memoranda
Creation-Date: 2011
Number: 052
File-URL: http://arnop.unimaas.nl/show.cgi?fid=23863
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File-Size: 533875
Handle: RePEc:unm:umamet:2011052