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Do Employers Discriminate Less If Vacancies Are Difficult to Fill? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Baert, Stijn; Cockx, Bart; Gheyle, Niels; Vandamme, Cora - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We empirically test the relationship between hiring discrimination and labour market tightness at the level of the occupation. To this end, we conduct a correspondence test in the youth labour market. In line with theoretical expectations, we find that, compared to natives, candidates with a...

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Do Employers Discriminate Less if Vacancies are Difficult to Fill? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Baert, Stijn; Cockx, Bart; Gheyle, Niels; Vandamme, Cora - CESifo - 2013

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010607469

Unemployment or Overeducation: Which is a Worse Signal to Employers?

Baert, Stijn; Verhaest, Dieter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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...

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Better Sexy than Flexy? A Lab Experiment Assessing the Impact of Perceived Attractiveness and Personality Traits on Hiring Decisions

Baert, Stijn; Decuypere, Lynn - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

In this letter we present a laboratory experiment to assess the relative and independent effect of perceived attractiveness and personality traits on hiring decisions. Our results indicate that attractiveness and conscientiousness, followed by emotional stability, are important drivers of...

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Overeducation at the Start of the Career: Stepping Stone or Trap?

Baert, Stijn; Cockx, Bart; Verhaest, Dieter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This study investigates whether young unemployed graduates who accept a job below their level of education accelerate … or delay the transition into a job that matches their level of education. We adopt the Timing of Events approach to … started searching for a job right after leaving formal education. We find that overeducation is a trap. This trap is …

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Overeducation at the Start of the Career - Stepping Stone or Trap?

Baert, Stijn; Cockx, Bart; Verhaest, Dieter - CESifo - 2012

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010550834

Mister Sandman, Bring Me Good Marks! On the Relationship Between Sleep Quality and Academic Achievement

Baert, Stijn; Omey, Eddy; Verhaest, Dieter; Vermeir, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

during secondary education, we find that increasing total sleep quality with one standard deviation leads to 4.85 percentage …

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Is Ethnic Discrimination Due to Distaste or Statistics?

Baert, Stijn; De Pauw, Ann-Sophie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Employing a lab experiment, we directly test the empirical importance of key attitudes underlying the models of taste-based and statistical discrimination in explaining ethnic hiring discrimination. We find evidence that employer concern that co-workers and customers will prefer collaborating...

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