One’s pain is another’s gain: Early career exposure and later labor market outcomes
研究新员工早期接触雇主如何影响其后期职业结果，利用同事受伤作为工具变量，发现额外接触提高再雇佣概率、工资和合同期限。
Abstract This article investigates whether early career exposure of inexperienced employees to employers affects their later career outcomes. The extent to which entry-level workers get to demonstrate their abilities is an important determinant of how precisely the employer can estimate their talent. I implement a novel instrumental variable strategy, exploiting co-worker injuries as a source of random variation in junior employee working time. Co-worker injuries create vacant slots in team rosters, which are filled by junior workers, increasing their exposure. The results show that additional exposure increases junior workers’ rehiring probability as well as their post–entry-level salary and contract length.