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Alan Benson

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Institute for Work & Employment Research (IWER)
Sloan School of Management
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
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Working papers

  1. Benson, Alan & Lepage, Louis-Pierre, 2023. "Learning to Discriminate on the Job," Working Paper Series 10/2023, Stockholm University, Swedish Institute for Social Research.
  2. Alan Benson & Aaron Sojourner & Akhmed Umyarov, 2018. "Can Reputation Discipline the Gig Economy? Experimental Evidence from an Online Labor Market," Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute Working Papers 16, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
  3. Alan Benson & Danielle Li & Kelly Shue, 2018. "Promotions and the Peter Principle," NBER Working Papers 24343, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

Articles

  1. Alan M. Benson & Sima Sajjadiani, 2018. "Are Bonus Pools Driven by Their Incentive Effects? Evidence from Fluctuations in Gainsharing Incentives," ILR Review, Cornell University, ILR School, vol. 71(3), pages 567-599, May.
  2. Alan Benson, 2015. "A Theory of Dual Job Search and Sex-Based Occupational Clustering," Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 54(3), pages 367-400, July.
  3. Alan Benson, 2015. "Do Agents Game Their Agents' Behavior? Evidence from Sales Managers," Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 33(4), pages 863-890.
  4. Alan Benson, 2014. "Rethinking the Two-Body Problem: The Segregation of Women Into Geographically Dispersed Occupations," Demography, Springer;Population Association of America (PAA), vol. 51(5), pages 1619-1639, October.
  5. Benson, Alan, 2013. "Firm-sponsored general education and mobility frictions: Evidence from hospital sponsorship of nursing schools and faculty," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 32(1), pages 149-159.
  6. Thomas Kochan & David B. Lipsky & Mary Newhart & Alan Benson, 2010. "The Long Haul Effects of Interest Arbitration: The Case of New York State's Taylor Law," ILR Review, Cornell University, ILR School, vol. 63(4), pages 565-584, July.

Citations

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Working papers

  1. Alan Benson & Aaron Sojourner & Akhmed Umyarov, 2018. "Can Reputation Discipline the Gig Economy? Experimental Evidence from an Online Labor Market," Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute Working Papers 16, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.

    Cited by:

    1. Ke & Ma & Sophie Yanying Sheng & Haitian Xie, 2023. "Employer Reputation and the Labor Market: Evidence from Glassdoor.com and Dice.com," Papers 2305.02587, arXiv.org, revised Sep 2023.
    2. Meijian Yang & Enjun Xia & Yang Yang, 2023. "Deterring Sellers’ Cheap Talk Actions via Online Rating Schemes," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 11(6), pages 1-16, March.
    3. Marinescu, Ioana E. & Klein, Nadav & Chamberlain, Andrew & Smart, Morgan, 2018. "Incentives Can Reduce Bias in Online Reviews," IZA Discussion Papers 11367, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    4. John Horton, 2021. "The Ruble Collapse in an Online Marketplace: Some Lessons for Market Designers," Papers 2104.06170, arXiv.org.
    5. Filippo Belloc, 2019. "Why Isn't Uber Worker-Managed? A Model of Digital Platform Cooperatives," CESifo Working Paper Series 7708, CESifo.
    6. Feifei Jiang & Xiaoying Zheng & Di Fan & Pengxiang Zhang & Sali Li, 2021. "The Sharing Economy and Business Model Design: A Configurational Approach," Journal of Management Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 58(4), pages 949-976, June.
    7. Yao, Qiongrui (Missy) & Baker, LaKami T. & Lohrke, Franz T., 2022. "Building and sustaining trust in remote work by platform-dependent entrepreneurs on digital labor platforms: Toward an integrative framework," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 149(C), pages 327-339.
    8. Qiu, Yue & Sojourner, Aaron, 2019. "Labor-Market Concentration and Labor Compensation," IZA Discussion Papers 12089, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    9. Zhijuan Hong & Ruhai Wu & Yan Sun & Kunxiang Dong, 2020. "Buyer preferences for auction pricing rules in online outsourcing markets: fixed price vs. open price," Electronic Markets, Springer;IIM University of St. Gallen, vol. 30(1), pages 163-179, March.
    10. Svenja Dube & Chenqi Zhu, 2021. "The Disciplinary Effect of Social Media: Evidence from Firms' Responses to Glassdoor Reviews," Journal of Accounting Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 59(5), pages 1783-1825, December.
    11. Dandan Qiao & Huaxia Rui & Qian Xiong, 2023. "AI and Jobs: Has the Inflection Point Arrived? Evidence from an Online Labor Platform," Papers 2312.04180, arXiv.org.
    12. Choi, Bong-Geun & Choi, Jung Ho & Malik, Sara, 2023. "Not just for investors: The role of earnings announcements in guiding job seekers," Journal of Accounting and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 76(1).
    13. Nicolas Eschenbaum & Helge Liebert, 2021. "Dealing with Uncertainty: The Value of Reputation in the Absence of Legal Institutions," Papers 2107.11314, arXiv.org.
    14. Kazakova, E. & Sandomirskaia, M. & Suvorov, A. & Khazhgerieva, A. & Shavshin, R., 2023. "Platforms, online labor markets, and crowdsourcing. Part 1. Traditional online labor market," Journal of the New Economic Association, New Economic Association, vol. 60(3), pages 120-148.

  2. Alan Benson & Danielle Li & Kelly Shue, 2018. "Promotions and the Peter Principle," NBER Working Papers 24343, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

    Cited by:

    1. Mario Bossler & Philipp Grunau, 2020. "Asymmetric information in external versus internal promotions," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 59(6), pages 2977-2998, December.
    2. Bassi, Vittorio & Nyshadham, Anant & Tamayo, Jorge & Adhvaryu, Achyuta, 2020. "No Line Left Behind: Assortative Matching Inside the Firm," CEPR Discussion Papers 14554, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    3. Brian Fabo & Martina Jancokova & Elisabeth Kempf & Lubos Pastor, 2020. "Fifty Shades of QE: Conflicts of Interest in Economic Research," Working and Discussion Papers WP 5/2020, Research Department, National Bank of Slovakia.
    4. Alan Benson & Ben A. Rissing, 2020. "Strength from Within: Internal Mobility and the Retention of High Performers," Organization Science, INFORMS, vol. 31(6), pages 1475-1496, November.
    5. Devereux, Kevin, 2018. "Identifying the value of teamwork: Application to professional tennis," CLEF Working Paper Series 14, Canadian Labour Economics Forum (CLEF), University of Waterloo.
    6. Kevin Devereux, 2021. "Returns to Teamwork and Professional Networks: Evidence from Economic Research," Working Papers 202101, School of Economics, University College Dublin.
    7. Danielle Li & Lindsey R. Raymond & Peter Bergman, 2020. "Hiring as Exploration," NBER Working Papers 27736, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

Articles

  1. Alan M. Benson & Sima Sajjadiani, 2018. "Are Bonus Pools Driven by Their Incentive Effects? Evidence from Fluctuations in Gainsharing Incentives," ILR Review, Cornell University, ILR School, vol. 71(3), pages 567-599, May.

    Cited by:

    1. Hyun Seok (Huck) Lee & Saravanan Kesavan & Camelia Kuhnen, 2022. "When do group incentives for retail store managers work?," Production and Operations Management, Production and Operations Management Society, vol. 31(8), pages 3077-3095, August.

  2. Alan Benson, 2015. "A Theory of Dual Job Search and Sex-Based Occupational Clustering," Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 54(3), pages 367-400, July.

    Cited by:

    1. Lindley, Joanne & Machin, Stephen, 2011. "The boom in postgraduate education and its impact on wage inequality," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 39087, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    2. Joanne Lindley & Stephen Machin, 2011. "Rising Wage Inequality and Postgraduate Education," CEP Discussion Papers dp1075, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE.
    3. Mañé Vernet, Ferran & Miravet, Daniel, 2010. "Sobreeducación y Sobrecualificación en los Universitarios Catalanes. Una perspectiva de género," Working Papers 2072/179592, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Department of Economics.
    4. Joanne Lindley & Stephen Machin, 2016. "The Rising Postgraduate Wage Premium," Economica, London School of Economics and Political Science, vol. 83(330), pages 281-306, April.
    5. Murray-Close, Marta, 2019. "Living Far Apart Together: Dual-Career Location Constraints and Marital Noncohabitation," SocArXiv a9dc8, Center for Open Science.
    6. Valeria Rueda & Guillaume Wilemme, 2021. "Career Paths with a Two-Body Problem: Occupational Specialization and Geographic Mobility," Upjohn Working Papers 21-346, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.

  3. Alan Benson, 2015. "Do Agents Game Their Agents' Behavior? Evidence from Sales Managers," Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 33(4), pages 863-890.

    Cited by:

    1. Richard B. Freeman & Wei Huang & Teng Li, 2019. "Non-linear Incentives, Worker Productivity, and Firm Profits: Evidence from a Quasi-experiment," NBER Working Papers 25507, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    2. Alan Benson & Danielle Li & Kelly Shue, 2018. "Promotions and the Peter Principle," NBER Working Papers 24343, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    3. Lamar Pierce & Alex Rees-Jones & Charlotte Blank, 2020. "The Negative Consequences of Loss-Framed Performance Incentives," NBER Working Papers 26619, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    4. Kräkel, Matthias, 2021. "On the delegation of authority," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 191(C), pages 965-981.
    5. Kräkel, Matthias, 2018. "Empowerment and the Dark Side of Delegation," IZA Discussion Papers 11289, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    6. Alan Benson & Danielle Li & Kelly Shue, 2019. "Promotions and the Peter Principle," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 134(4), pages 2085-2134.
    7. Kuhn, Peter J. & Yu, Lizi, 2021. "Kinks as Goals: Accelerating Commissions and the Performance of Sales Teams," IZA Discussion Papers 14115, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).

  4. Alan Benson, 2014. "Rethinking the Two-Body Problem: The Segregation of Women Into Geographically Dispersed Occupations," Demography, Springer;Population Association of America (PAA), vol. 51(5), pages 1619-1639, October.

    Cited by:

    1. Francine D. Blau & Lawrence M. Kahn, 2017. "The Gender Wage Gap: Extent, Trends, and Explanations," Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association, vol. 55(3), pages 789-865, September.
    2. Foged, Mette, 2016. "Family migration and relative earnings potentials," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 42(C), pages 87-100.
    3. Barbara Boelmann, 2024. "Women's Missing Mobility and the Gender Gap in Higher Education: Evidence from Germany's University Expansion," CRC TR 224 Discussion Paper Series crctr224_2024_518, University of Bonn and University of Mannheim, Germany.
    4. Zhang, Hanzhe & Zou, Ben, 2023. "A marriage-market perspective on risk-taking and career choices," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 152(C).
    5. Molloy, Raven & Smith, Christopher L. & Wozniak, Abigail, 2014. "Declining Migration within the US: The Role of the Labor Market," IZA Discussion Papers 8149, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    6. Jiang, Xuan, 2021. "Women in STEM: Ability, preference, and value," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 70(C).
    7. Jennifer Roberts & Karl Taylor, 2017. "Intra-household commuting choices and local labour markets," Oxford Economic Papers, Oxford University Press, vol. 69(3), pages 734-757.
    8. Sanchez, Rafael & Finot, Javier & Villena, Mauricio G., 2019. "Gender Wage Gap and Firm Market Power in Chile," MPRA Paper 99149, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 01 Sep 2019.
    9. Barbara Petrongolo & Maddalena Ronchi, 2020. "A survey of gender gaps through the lens of the industry structure and local labor markets," CEP Discussion Papers dp1688, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE.
    10. Katariina Mueller-Gastell, 2023. "Poach or Promote? Job Sorting and Gender Earnings Inequality across U.S. Industries," Working Papers 23-23, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau.
    11. Petrongolo, Barbara & Ronchi, Maddalena, 2020. "Gender Gaps and the Structure of Local Labor Markets," IZA Discussion Papers 13143, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    12. Raven Molloy & Christopher L. Smith & Abigail Wozniak, 2017. "Job Changing and the Decline in Long-Distance Migration in the United States," Demography, Springer;Population Association of America (PAA), vol. 54(2), pages 631-653, April.
    13. Shishir Shakya & Alicia Plemmons & Conor Norris, 2024. "Military Spouse Licensing: A Case Study of Registered Nurses within Military Bases Proximity," Working Papers 24-09, Department of Economics, Appalachian State University.
    14. Xing, Chunbing & Yuan, Xiaoyan & Zhang, Junfu, 2022. "City Size, Family Migration, and Gender Wage Gap: Evidence from Rural-Urban Migrants in China," IZA Discussion Papers 15549, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    15. Rafael Sánchez & Javier Finot & Mauricio G. Villena, 2022. "Gender wage gap and firm market power: evidence from Chile," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 54(18), pages 2109-2121, April.
    16. Francine D. Blau & Anne E. Winkler, 2017. "Women, Work, and Family," NBER Working Papers 23644, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    17. Barbara Boelmann, 2024. "Women’s Missing Mobility and the Gender Gap in Higher Education: Evidence from Germany’s University Expansion," ECONtribute Discussion Papers Series 280, University of Bonn and University of Cologne, Germany.
    18. Lanu Kim, 2021. "Geographical Locations of Occupations and Information and Communication Technology: Do Online Tools Impact Where People in the United States Live and Work?," SAGE Open, , vol. 11(3), pages 21582440211, August.
    19. Soyoung Kim, 2022. "Commuting Time Patterns of Dual-Earner Couples in Korea," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 161(1), pages 105-123, May.

  5. Benson, Alan, 2013. "Firm-sponsored general education and mobility frictions: Evidence from hospital sponsorship of nursing schools and faculty," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 32(1), pages 149-159.

    Cited by:

    1. Manning, Alan, 2011. "Imperfect Competition in the Labor Market," Handbook of Labor Economics, in: O. Ashenfelter & D. Card (ed.), Handbook of Labor Economics, edition 1, volume 4, chapter 11, pages 973-1041, Elsevier.
    2. Stockinger, Bastian & Zwick, Thomas, 2017. "Apprentice poaching in regional labor markets," IAB-Discussion Paper 201708, Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg [Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany].
    3. Jens MohrenweiserBy & Gabriele Wydra-Somaggio & Thomas Zwick, 2020. "Information advantages of training employers despite credible training certificates," Oxford Economic Papers, Oxford University Press, vol. 72(3), pages 651-671.
    4. Elizabeth Munnich & Abigail Wozniak, 2020. "What Explains the Rising Share of US Men in Registered Nursing?," ILR Review, Cornell University, ILR School, vol. 73(1), pages 91-123, January.
    5. Mohrenweiser, Jens & Wydra-Sommaggio, Gaby & Zwick, Thomas, 2015. "Work-related ability as source of information advantages of training employers," ZEW Discussion Papers 15-057, ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research.
    6. Faria, João Ricardo & Caudill, Steven B. & Mixon, Franklin G. & Upadhyaya, Kamal P., 2021. "Cooperation and spillovers in healthcare R&D: Theory and evidence," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 95(C), pages 68-75.
    7. Evan Starr, 2019. "Consider This: Training, Wages, and the Enforceability of Covenants Not to Compete," ILR Review, Cornell University, ILR School, vol. 72(4), pages 783-817, August.
    8. Samuel Muehlemann & Paul Ryan & Stefan C. Wolter, 2011. "Monopsony power, pay structure and training," Economics of Education Working Paper Series 0099, University of Zurich, Department of Business Administration (IBW).
    9. Jens Mohrenweiser & Thomas Zwick & Uschi Backes-Gellner, 2010. "Poaching and Firm-Sponsored Training," Economics of Education Working Paper Series 0051, University of Zurich, Department of Business Administration (IBW), revised Sep 2017.
    10. Qiu, Yue & Sojourner, Aaron, 2019. "Labor-Market Concentration and Labor Compensation," IZA Discussion Papers 12089, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    11. Suman Ghosh & Kameshwari Shankar, 2017. "Optimal Enforcement Of Noncompete Covenants," Economic Inquiry, Western Economic Association International, vol. 55(1), pages 305-318, January.
    12. Dan A. Black & Lars Skipper & Jeffrey A. Smith & Jeffrey Andrew Smith, 2023. "Firm Training," CESifo Working Paper Series 10268, CESifo.

  6. Thomas Kochan & David B. Lipsky & Mary Newhart & Alan Benson, 2010. "The Long Haul Effects of Interest Arbitration: The Case of New York State's Taylor Law," ILR Review, Cornell University, ILR School, vol. 63(4), pages 565-584, July.

    Cited by:

    1. David Lewin & Jeffrey H. Keefe & Thomas A. Kochan, 2012. "The New Great Debate about Unionism and Collective Bargaining in U.S. State and Local Governments," ILR Review, Cornell University, ILR School, vol. 65(4), pages 749-778, October.
    2. Dickinson, David L. & McEvoy, David M. & Bruner, David, 2021. "The Impact of Sleep Restriction on Interpersonal Conflict Resolution and the Narcotic Effect," IZA Discussion Papers 14536, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    3. Ariel C. Avgar & Alexander J. S. Colvin & Harry C. Katz & Katrina G. Nobles, 2023. "A fragmented and heavily privatized dispute resolution system: The United States," Industrial Relations Journal, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 54(4-5), pages 304-320, July.
    4. Michele Campolieti & Chris Riddell, 2020. "Does Mediation-Arbitration Reduce Arbitration Rates? Evidence from a Natural Experiment," ILR Review, Cornell University, ILR School, vol. 73(1), pages 211-235, January.
    5. Richard P. Chaykowski, 2019. "Time to Tweak or Re-boot? Assessing the Interest Arbitration Process in Canadian Industrial Relations," C.D. Howe Institute Commentary, C.D. Howe Institute, issue 539, April.

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NEP is an announcement service for new working papers, with a weekly report in each of many fields. This author has had 5 papers announced in NEP. These are the fields, ordered by number of announcements, along with their dates. If the author is listed in the directory of specialists for this field, a link is also provided.
  1. NEP-EXP: Experimental Economics (3) 2015-12-01 2018-10-08 2019-01-21
  2. NEP-HRM: Human Capital and Human Resource Management (2) 2018-03-19 2024-04-08
  3. NEP-LAW: Law and Economics (2) 2018-10-08 2019-01-21
  4. NEP-LMA: Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages (2) 2015-12-01 2019-01-21
  5. NEP-PAY: Payment Systems and Financial Technology (2) 2018-10-08 2019-01-21
  6. NEP-ACC: Accounting and Auditing (1) 2015-12-01
  7. NEP-BEC: Business Economics (1) 2018-03-19
  8. NEP-CTA: Contract Theory and Applications (1) 2015-12-01
  9. NEP-ICT: Information and Communication Technologies (1) 2015-12-01
  10. NEP-LAB: Labour Economics (1) 2018-03-19
  11. NEP-MKT: Marketing (1) 2015-12-01

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