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What Does Someone's Gender Identity Signal to Employers?
Van Borm, Hannah - 2020
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to explore the mechanisms underlying hiring discrimination against transgender men.Design/methodology/approach - The authors conduct a scenario experiment with final-year business students in which fictitious hiring decisions are made about transgender or...
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What do student jobs on graduate CVs signal to employers?
Van Belle, Eva; Caers, Ralf; Cuypers, Laure; Couck, … - 2019
literature. However, to date the focus has been solely on measuring the effect of student employment on later labour market … of student work and we examine for the first time what exactly is being signalled by student employment. We do this by … responsibility, an increased motivation, and more maturity, only student employment in line with a job candidate's field of study is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012024473
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What do student jobs on graduate CVs signal to employers?
Van Belle, Eva; Caers, Ralf; Cuypers, Laure; Couck, … - 2019
literature. However, to date the focus has been solely on measuring the effect of student employment on later labour market … of student work and we examine for the first time what exactly is being signalled by student employment. We do this by … responsibility, an increased motivation, and more maturity, only student employment in line with a job candidate’s field of study is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012159243
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Unemployment or overeducation : which is a worse signal to employers?
Baert, Stijn; Verhaest, Dieter - 2014
This study aims at estimating the stigma effect of unemployment and overeducation within one framework. To this end, we conduct a field experiment in the Belgian labour market. We send out trios of fictitious male job applications to real vacancies. These applications differ only by the labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010380878
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A signal of diligence? : student work experience and later employment chances
Baert, Stijn; Rotsaert, Olivier; Verhaest, Dieter; … - 2015
experience enhances initial recruitment decisions. For a number of candidate subgroups (by education level and occupation type …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011295597
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What Does a Job Candidate's Age Signal to Employers?
Van Borm, Hannah - 2020
Research has shown that hiring discrimination is a barrier for older job candidates in many OECD countries. However, little research has delved into why older job candidates are discriminated against. Therefore, we have conducted an online scenario experiment involving recruiters to empirically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012844849
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What Do Student Jobs on Graduate Cvs Signal to Employers?
Van Belle, Eva - 2019
literature. However, to date the focus has been solely on measuring the effect of student employment on later labour market … of student work and we examine for the first time what exactly is being signalled by student employment. We do this by … responsibility, an increased motivation, and more maturity, only student employment in line with a job candidate's field of study is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012867159
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Unemployment or Overeducation : Which is a Worse Signal to Employers?
Baert, Stijn - 2014
This study aims at estimating the stigma effect of unemployment and overeducation within one framework. To this end, we conduct a field experiment in the Belgian labour market. We send out trios of fictitious male job applications to real vacancies. These applications differ only by the labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050630
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Costly mistakes: why and when spelling errors in resumes jeopardise interview chances
Sterkens, Philippe; Caers, Ralf; Couck, Marijke de; … - 2021
Earlier research has associated spelling errors in resumes with reduced hiring chances. However, the analysis of hiring penalties due to spelling errors has thus far been restricted to white-collar occupations and relatively high numbers of errors per resume. Moreover, the mechanisms underlying...
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Why is unemployment duration a sorting criterion in hiring?
Van Belle, Eva; Caers, Ralf; Couck, Marijke de; Di … - 2017
Recent evidence from large-scale field experiments has shown that employers use job candidates' unemployment duration as a sorting criterion. In the present study, we investigate the mechanisms underlying this pattern. To this end, we conduct a lab experiment in which participants make hiring...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011704177