Using exhaustive administrative data on Italian social security records, we construct measures of local labor market thickness for executives that vary by industry and location. We show that firm performance is strongly and persistently affected by executive death, but only in thin local labor markets. The new executives hired after death events in thin local labor markets have lower education levels and are more likely to be replaced. These predictions are consistent with a simple model of executive search in which market thickness determines the arrival rate of applications for executive positions.

Are Executives in Short Supply? Evidence from Death Events / Schivardi, Fabiano; Sauvagnat, Julien. - In: THE REVIEW OF ECONOMIC STUDIES. - ISSN 1467-937X. - 91:1(2024), pp. 519-559. [10.1093/restud/rdad027]

Are Executives in Short Supply? Evidence from Death Events

Fabiano Schivardi
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2024

Abstract

Using exhaustive administrative data on Italian social security records, we construct measures of local labor market thickness for executives that vary by industry and location. We show that firm performance is strongly and persistently affected by executive death, but only in thin local labor markets. The new executives hired after death events in thin local labor markets have lower education levels and are more likely to be replaced. These predictions are consistent with a simple model of executive search in which market thickness determines the arrival rate of applications for executive positions.
2024
Executive supply, Firm performance, Local growth.
Are Executives in Short Supply? Evidence from Death Events / Schivardi, Fabiano; Sauvagnat, Julien. - In: THE REVIEW OF ECONOMIC STUDIES. - ISSN 1467-937X. - 91:1(2024), pp. 519-559. [10.1093/restud/rdad027]
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