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Alan Benson, Danielle Li, Kelly Shue, ‘Promotions and the Peter Principle’, The Quarterly Journal of Economics 2019 134 (4) 2085–2134 [“Using microdata on the performance of sales workers at 131 firms, we find evidence consistent with the Peter Principle, which proposes that firms prioritize current job performance in promotion decisions at the expense of other observable characteristics that better predict managerial performance.”]
