Making the Invisible Hand Visible: Personnel Data on Manager-Worker Allocation

Virginia Minni authored this replication package for The Quarterly Journal of Economics to analyze how managers allocate workers to jobs. The dataset contains the empirical records and programs required to reproduce the study's findings on personnel economics and human capital. It was last updated in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Replicating the econometric models of worker-to-job allocation described in the paper
• Analyzing the impact of manager quality on human capital development
• Studying occupational choice within internal labor markets using the provided personnel records

Strengths

• Peer-reviewed replication data from The Quarterly Journal of Economics
• Includes code for exact reproduction of published figures and tables
• Focuses on internal labor market dynamics and manager-worker matching

Limitations

• Restricted to the specific corporate context studied in the original paper
• Requires statistical software to run replication scripts
• Metadata does not specify the total number of records

Provenance

Source

Virginia Minni, The Quarterly Journal of Economics Dataverse

Collection Method

Administrative personnel records

Freshness

Last updated March 2026.