Sloan Working Papers: Recent submissions

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    • From Metaphors to Mechanisms: Gender Sorting In(to) an Organizational Hierarchy 

      Fernandez, Roberto M.; Abraham, Mabel Botelho (Cambridge, MA; Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010-04)
      Numerous studies have examined patterns of gender inequality in organizational advancement, with some showing results indicative of “glass ceilings,” where gender disparities are strong at the upper reaches of the organization, ...

    • Creating Connections For the Disadvantaged: Networks and Labor Market Intermediaries at the Hiring Interface 

      Fernandez, Roberto M. (Cambridge, MA; Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010-03)
      Scholars interested in race inequality have been particularly attracted to network accounts of the stratifying effects of social networks in the labor market. A recurring theme in policy‐oriented research on poverty is ...

    • Integration and Information: Markets and Hierarchies Revisited 

      Gibbons, Robert; Holden, Richard; Powell, Michael (Cambridge, MA; Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010-01)
      We analyze a rational-expectations model of price formation in an intermediate-good market under uncertainty. There is a continuum of dyads, each consisting of an upstream party and downstream party. Both parties can make ...