firms' recruitment strategies. In labour markets where employers invest largely in formal recruitment activities, matches … theoretical model is used to show that employers invest more in recruitment for high productivity jobs and for positions that … recruitment costs. …

This paper studies employer recruitment and selection of job applicants when productivity is match-specific. Job … undergo a costly hiring process will depend both on the wage paid and on the perceived likelihood of being hired, while a … noisy interview leads the firm to consider the quality of the applicant pool when setting hiring standards. I characterize …

specialisation and diversity? To what extent does the structure of cities, and the activities of the firms and people in them, change …

This paper reviews a growing literature investigating how ‘immigrant’ diversity relates to urban economic performance …

insufficient attention to diversity of workers (Rank, 2009). As invisible minorities, gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT …

) goods. We show that taste conflict first dilutes but later reinforces class interests. When the degree of taste diversity is …. As taste diversity increases in society, the set of equilibrium policies becomes more and more tilted towards special … interest groups and against general redistribution. As diversity increases further, however, only general redistribution …

Research on employers’ hiring discrimination is limited by the unlawfulness of such activity. Consequently, researchers …, where employers can freely exercise their taste for racial discrimination in terms of hiring and firing. The setting allows … isolating the effects of taste-based discrimination. We find no evidence of racial discrimination, either in initial hiring or …