Emilio J Castilla
Biographic Data
| ID | 259136 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emilio J Castilla |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emilio J |
| FAMILY NAME | Castilla |
| SIGNATURE | CASTILLA E J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8724-7054 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 511 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Para la investigación de estructuaras grandes, procesos amplios, y comparaciones enormes
A lo largo del siglo XIX, grandes cambios sociales, políticos y económicos (y su incomprensión) crean el contexto idóneo para el surgimiento de un aparato científico-ideológico peculiar con el que analizar y explicar esa compleja realidad del momento. En el artículo se presenta un análisis crítico de los modelos de estudio adoptados por las Ciencias Sociales para la investigación de grandes estructuras y procesos sociales, muchos de los cuales si…
Mérito y discriminación dentro de las organizaciones diferencias en la evaluación y retribución de empleados/as según género y origen étnico
Este artículo investiga cómo los procesos organizativos que se utilizan hoy en día para fijar la retribución de los trabajadores/as pueden generar des igualdad salarial dentro de las organizaciones. Utilizando datos de la plantilla de una gran organización del sector privado, identifico y examino las dos etapas principales de una práctica común en la empresa ?la retribución variable de los empleados/as utilizando una gratificación por rendimiento…
Through the Front Door: Why Do Organizations (Still) Prefer Legacy Applicants
When screening candidates, organizations often give preference to certain applicants on the basis of their familial ties. This "legacy preference," particularly widespread in college admissions, has been criticized for contributing to inequality and class reproduction. Despite this, studies continue to report that legacies are persistently admitted at higher rates than non-legacies. In this article, we develop a theoretical framework of three dis…
Testing Attestations: U.S. Unemployment and Immigrant Work Authorizations
Each year, hundreds of thousands of immigrants seek legal employment in the United States. Similar to many developed countries, the United States has established immigration policies to protect its citizens' employment. This study empirically assesses, for the first time, the relationship between U.S. workers' unemployment rates and immigrant work authorization outcomes, as determined by one key U.S. immigration program-the labor certification pr…
Accounting for the Gap: A Firm Study Manipulating Organizational Accountability and Transparency in Pay Decisions
Great progress has been made in documenting how employer practices may shape workplace inequality. Less research attention, however, has been given to investigating which organizational strategies are effective at addressing gender and racial inequality in labor markets. Using a unique field study design, this article identifies and tests, for the first time, whether accountability and transparency in pay decisions—two popular organizational init…
House of Green Cards: Statistical or Preference-Based Inequality in the Employment of Foreign Nationals
This study contributes to the labor market inequality and organizations literature by investigating the role that government agents play in shaping the employment of immigrants. Using unique data on applications for immigrant permanent labor certification evaluated by U.S. Department of Labor agents, we assess to what extent immigrants of select citizenship groups experience disparities in the labor certification process-one critical stage of the…
Social Networks and Employment: Mechanisms (Part 1)
While substantial progress has recently been made in the literature on social networks and employment, this research has not been accompanied by a larger organizing framework. In this article, we attempt to provide such framework while reviewing the literature that addresses the context of work and employment from a social network perspective – that is, research based on the assumption that actors are embedded in networks of social relations and …
Social Networks and Employment: Outcomes (Part 2)
In this second article, we continue to survey research that addresses work and employment from a social network perspective. Building on a companion article in this volume, which explores in‐depth the main network mechanisms presented in the literature, this article reviews studies addressing how social networks may shape key employment outcomes for both individuals and organizations. Network access and activation may shape individuals' selection…
Bringing Managers Back In: Managerial Influences on Workplace Inequality
While great progress has been made in documenting that organizational practices affect workplace inequality, little is known about how managers in particular may shape the careers of the employees below them. Using unique longitudinal personnel data on managers and their subordinates, this study identifies and tests for evidence of three distinct mechanisms by which managers potentially influence the assessment of employee performance in the work…
The Institutional Production of National Science in the 20th Century
Science and scientific production have been widely promoted as powerful tools for advancing national economic and social development. While much progress has been made in determining whether this is the case, less understood are the underlying factors influencing national scientific activity in the first place, especially during its 20th-century global expansion. In order to advance our understanding of the development of science and world polity…
Gender, Race, and Meritocracy in Organizational Careers
This study helps to fill a significant gap in the literature on organizations and inequality by investigating the central role of merit-based reward systems in shaping gender and racial disparities in wages and promotions. The author develops and tests a set of propositions isolating processes of performance-reward bias, whereby women and minorities receive less compensation than white men with equal scores on performance evaluations. Using perso…
Social Networks and Employee Performance in a Call Center
Much research in sociology and labor economics studies proxies for productivity; consequently, little is known about the relationship between personal contacts and worker performance. This study addresses, for the first time, the role of referral contacts on workers’ performance. Using employees’ hiring and performance data in a call center, the author examines the performance implications over time of hiring new workers via employee referrals. W…
Organizing Health Care: A Comparative Analysis of National Institutions and Inequality Over Time
Research has not satisfactorily answered the question of whether institutions are becoming more similar across countries despite the existence of nationally distinctive social, cultural, political and economic factors. This study presents an institutional account for the process of change in national institutions over time, and specifically examines one of the most important national institutions, health care systems (HCSs). Longitudinal data on …
Social Capital at Work: Networks and Employment at a Phone Center
This article argues that a common organizational practice-the hiring of new workers via employee referrals-provides key insights into the notion of social capital. Employers who use such hiring methods are quintessential "social capitalists," viewing workers' social connections as resources in which they can invest in order to gain economic returns in the form of better hiring outcomes. Identified are three ways through which such returns might b…
La profesión de economista: E1 auge de economistas, ejecutivos y empresarios en España
Para la investigación de estructuras grandes, procesos amplios, y comparaciones enormes
A lo largo del siglo XIX, grandes cambios sociales, politicos y economicos (y su incomprension) crean el contexto idoneo para el surgimiento de un aparato cientifico-ideologico peculiar con el que analizar y explicar esa compleja realidad del momento. En el articulo se presenta un analisis critico de los modelos de estudio adoptados por las Ciencias Sociales para la investigacion de grandes estructuras y procesos sociales, muchos de los cuales si…
Gender, Race, and Meritocracy in Organizational Careers
This study helps to fill a significant gap in the literature on organizations and inequality by investigating the central role of merit-based reward systems in shaping gender and racial disparities in wages and promotions. The author develops and tests a set of propositions isolating processes of performance-reward bias, whereby women and minorities receive less compensation than white men with equal scores on performance evaluations. Using perso…
Social Capital at Work: Networks and Employment at a Phone Center
This article argues that a common organizational practice-the hiring of new workers via employee referrals-provides key insights into the notion of social capital. Employers who use such hiring methods are quintessential "social capitalists," viewing workers' social connections as resources in which they can invest in order to gain economic returns in the form of better hiring outcomes. Identified are three ways through which such returns might b…
Bringing Managers Back In: Managerial Influences on Workplace Inequality
While great progress has been made in documenting that organizational practices affect workplace inequality, little is known about how managers in particular may shape the careers of the employees below them. Using unique longitudinal personnel data on managers and their subordinates, this study identifies and tests for evidence of three distinct mechanisms by which managers potentially influence the assessment of employee performance in the work…
Social Networks and Employee Performance in a Call Center
Much research in sociology and labor economics studies proxies for productivity; consequently, little is known about the relationship between personal contacts and worker performance. This study addresses, for the first time, the role of referral contacts on workers’ performance. Using employees’ hiring and performance data in a call center, the author examines the performance implications over time of hiring new workers via employee referrals. W…
House of Green Cards: Statistical or Preference-Based Inequality in the Employment of Foreign Nationals
This study contributes to the labor market inequality and organizations literature by investigating the role that government agents play in shaping the employment of immigrants. Using unique data on applications for immigrant permanent labor certification evaluated by U.S. Department of Labor agents, we assess to what extent immigrants of select citizenship groups experience disparities in the labor certification process-one critical stage of the…
Social Networks and Employment: Mechanisms (Part 1)
While substantial progress has recently been made in the literature on social networks and employment, this research has not been accompanied by a larger organizing framework. In this article, we attempt to provide such framework while reviewing the literature that addresses the context of work and employment from a social network perspective – that is, research based on the assumption that actors are embedded in networks of social relations and …
Through the Front Door: Why Do Organizations (Still) Prefer Legacy Applicants
When screening candidates, organizations often give preference to certain applicants on the basis of their familial ties. This "legacy preference," particularly widespread in college admissions, has been criticized for contributing to inequality and class reproduction. Despite this, studies continue to report that legacies are persistently admitted at higher rates than non-legacies. In this article, we develop a theoretical framework of three dis…
Social Networks and Employment: Outcomes (Part 2)
In this second article, we continue to survey research that addresses work and employment from a social network perspective. Building on a companion article in this volume, which explores in‐depth the main network mechanisms presented in the literature, this article reviews studies addressing how social networks may shape key employment outcomes for both individuals and organizations. Network access and activation may shape individuals' selection…
Organizing Health Care: A Comparative Analysis of National Institutions and Inequality Over Time
Research has not satisfactorily answered the question of whether institutions are becoming more similar across countries despite the existence of nationally distinctive social, cultural, political and economic factors. This study presents an institutional account for the process of change in national institutions over time, and specifically examines one of the most important national institutions, health care systems (HCSs). Longitudinal data on …
Testing Attestations: U.S. Unemployment and Immigrant Work Authorizations
Each year, hundreds of thousands of immigrants seek legal employment in the United States. Similar to many developed countries, the United States has established immigration policies to protect its citizens' employment. This study empirically assesses, for the first time, the relationship between U.S. workers' unemployment rates and immigrant work authorization outcomes, as determined by one key U.S. immigration program-the labor certification pr…
La profesión de economista: E1 auge de economistas, ejecutivos y empresarios en España
Para la investigación de estructuras grandes, procesos amplios, y comparaciones enormes
A lo largo del siglo XIX, grandes cambios sociales, politicos y economicos (y su incomprension) crean el contexto idoneo para el surgimiento de un aparato cientifico-ideologico peculiar con el que analizar y explicar esa compleja realidad del momento. En el articulo se presenta un analisis critico de los modelos de estudio adoptados por las Ciencias Sociales para la investigacion de grandes estructuras y procesos sociales, muchos de los cuales si…
Mérito y discriminación dentro de las organizaciones diferencias en la evaluación y retribución de empleados/as según género y origen étnico
Este artículo investiga cómo los procesos organizativos que se utilizan hoy en día para fijar la retribución de los trabajadores/as pueden generar des igualdad salarial dentro de las organizaciones. Utilizando datos de la plantilla de una gran organización del sector privado, identifico y examino las dos etapas principales de una práctica común en la empresa ?la retribución variable de los empleados/as utilizando una gratificación por rendimiento…
The Institutional Production of National Science in the 20th Century
Science and scientific production have been widely promoted as powerful tools for advancing national economic and social development. While much progress has been made in determining whether this is the case, less understood are the underlying factors influencing national scientific activity in the first place, especially during its 20th-century global expansion. In order to advance our understanding of the development of science and world polity…
La profesión de economista: E1 auge de economistas, ejecutivos y empresarios en España
Para la investigación de estructuras grandes, procesos amplios, y comparaciones enormes
A lo largo del siglo XIX, grandes cambios sociales, politicos y economicos (y su incomprension) crean el contexto idoneo para el surgimiento de un aparato cientifico-ideologico peculiar con el que analizar y explicar esa compleja realidad del momento. En el articulo se presenta un analisis critico de los modelos de estudio adoptados por las Ciencias Sociales para la investigacion de grandes estructuras y procesos sociales, muchos de los cuales si…
Social Capital at Work: Networks and Employment at a Phone Center
This article argues that a common organizational practice-the hiring of new workers via employee referrals-provides key insights into the notion of social capital. Employers who use such hiring methods are quintessential "social capitalists," viewing workers' social connections as resources in which they can invest in order to gain economic returns in the form of better hiring outcomes. Identified are three ways through which such returns might b…
Organizing Health Care: A Comparative Analysis of National Institutions and Inequality Over Time
Research has not satisfactorily answered the question of whether institutions are becoming more similar across countries despite the existence of nationally distinctive social, cultural, political and economic factors. This study presents an institutional account for the process of change in national institutions over time, and specifically examines one of the most important national institutions, health care systems (HCSs). Longitudinal data on …
Social Networks and Employee Performance in a Call Center
Much research in sociology and labor economics studies proxies for productivity; consequently, little is known about the relationship between personal contacts and worker performance. This study addresses, for the first time, the role of referral contacts on workers’ performance. Using employees’ hiring and performance data in a call center, the author examines the performance implications over time of hiring new workers via employee referrals. W…
Gender, Race, and Meritocracy in Organizational Careers
This study helps to fill a significant gap in the literature on organizations and inequality by investigating the central role of merit-based reward systems in shaping gender and racial disparities in wages and promotions. The author develops and tests a set of propositions isolating processes of performance-reward bias, whereby women and minorities receive less compensation than white men with equal scores on performance evaluations. Using perso…
The Institutional Production of National Science in the 20th Century
Science and scientific production have been widely promoted as powerful tools for advancing national economic and social development. While much progress has been made in determining whether this is the case, less understood are the underlying factors influencing national scientific activity in the first place, especially during its 20th-century global expansion. In order to advance our understanding of the development of science and world polity…
Bringing Managers Back In: Managerial Influences on Workplace Inequality
While great progress has been made in documenting that organizational practices affect workplace inequality, little is known about how managers in particular may shape the careers of the employees below them. Using unique longitudinal personnel data on managers and their subordinates, this study identifies and tests for evidence of three distinct mechanisms by which managers potentially influence the assessment of employee performance in the work…
Social Networks and Employment: Mechanisms (Part 1)
While substantial progress has recently been made in the literature on social networks and employment, this research has not been accompanied by a larger organizing framework. In this article, we attempt to provide such framework while reviewing the literature that addresses the context of work and employment from a social network perspective – that is, research based on the assumption that actors are embedded in networks of social relations and …
Social Networks and Employment: Outcomes (Part 2)
In this second article, we continue to survey research that addresses work and employment from a social network perspective. Building on a companion article in this volume, which explores in‐depth the main network mechanisms presented in the literature, this article reviews studies addressing how social networks may shape key employment outcomes for both individuals and organizations. Network access and activation may shape individuals' selection…
House of Green Cards: Statistical or Preference-Based Inequality in the Employment of Foreign Nationals
This study contributes to the labor market inequality and organizations literature by investigating the role that government agents play in shaping the employment of immigrants. Using unique data on applications for immigrant permanent labor certification evaluated by U.S. Department of Labor agents, we assess to what extent immigrants of select citizenship groups experience disparities in the labor certification process-one critical stage of the…
Accounting for the Gap: A Firm Study Manipulating Organizational Accountability and Transparency in Pay Decisions
Great progress has been made in documenting how employer practices may shape workplace inequality. Less research attention, however, has been given to investigating which organizational strategies are effective at addressing gender and racial inequality in labor markets. Using a unique field study design, this article identifies and tests, for the first time, whether accountability and transparency in pay decisions—two popular organizational init…
Testing Attestations: U.S. Unemployment and Immigrant Work Authorizations
Each year, hundreds of thousands of immigrants seek legal employment in the United States. Similar to many developed countries, the United States has established immigration policies to protect its citizens' employment. This study empirically assesses, for the first time, the relationship between U.S. workers' unemployment rates and immigrant work authorization outcomes, as determined by one key U.S. immigration program-the labor certification pr…
Through the Front Door: Why Do Organizations (Still) Prefer Legacy Applicants
When screening candidates, organizations often give preference to certain applicants on the basis of their familial ties. This "legacy preference," particularly widespread in college admissions, has been criticized for contributing to inequality and class reproduction. Despite this, studies continue to report that legacies are persistently admitted at higher rates than non-legacies. In this article, we develop a theoretical framework of three dis…
Para la investigación de estructuaras grandes, procesos amplios, y comparaciones enormes
A lo largo del siglo XIX, grandes cambios sociales, políticos y económicos (y su incomprensión) crean el contexto idóneo para el surgimiento de un aparato científico-ideológico peculiar con el que analizar y explicar esa compleja realidad del momento. En el artículo se presenta un análisis crítico de los modelos de estudio adoptados por las Ciencias Sociales para la investigación de grandes estructuras y procesos sociales, muchos de los cuales si…
Mérito y discriminación dentro de las organizaciones diferencias en la evaluación y retribución de empleados/as según género y origen étnico
Este artículo investiga cómo los procesos organizativos que se utilizan hoy en día para fijar la retribución de los trabajadores/as pueden generar des igualdad salarial dentro de las organizaciones. Utilizando datos de la plantilla de una gran organización del sector privado, identifico y examino las dos etapas principales de una práctica común en la empresa ?la retribución variable de los empleados/as utilizando una gratificación por rendimiento…
Political science (15 works) · Economics (10 works) · Business (7 works) · Public relations (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Gender Diversity and Inequality (5 works) · Social Capital and Networks (5 works) · Demographic economics (4 works)