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Shocking Offers : Gender, Wage Inequality, and Recessions in Online Labor Markets
Archibong, Belinda; Henry, Peter Blair - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Using data from the largest online job portal in Nigeria, we document: (a) gender differences in salary offers for jobs, and (b) the response of (a) to recessions. Jobs in industries where the number of job applicants skews female, offer lower starting salaries than jobs in industries where...
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Age at Immigrant Arrival and Career Mobility : Evidence from Vietnamese Refugee Migration and the Amerasian Homecoming Act
Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; Smith, Kendall E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We study the long-run career mobility of young immigrants, mostly refugees, from Vietnam who moved to the United States during 1989-1995. This third and final migration wave of young Vietnamese immigrants was sparked by unexpected events that culminated in the Amerasian Homecoming Act....
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Information Frictions and Employee Sorting Between Startups
Bryan, Kevin A.; Hoffman, Mitchell; Sariri, Amir - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Would workers apply to better firms if they were more informed about firm quality? Collaborating with 26 science-based startups, we create a custom job board and invite business school alumni to apply. The job board randomizes across applicants to show coarse expert ratings of all startups'...
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Competitive Job Seekers : When Sharing Less Leaves Firms at a Loss
Chiplunkar, Gaurav; Kelley, Erin M.; Lane, Gregory V. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We study how job-seekers share information about jobs within their social network, and its implications for firms. We randomly increase the amount of competition for a job and find that job-seekers are: (i) less likely to share information about the job with their peers; and (ii) choose to...
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Inefficient Labor Market Sorting
Eckel, Carsten; Yeaple, Stephen R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
A growing empirical literature attributes much of the productivity advantages of large, "superstar" firms to their adoption of best practice management techniques that allow them to better identify and use talented workers. The reasons for the incomplete adoption of these "structured management...
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Ban-the-Box Laws : Fair and Effective?
Kaestner, Robert; Wang, Xufei - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
hiring practices. BTB laws are intended to improve the employment opportunities of those with criminal backgrounds by giving … them a fair chance during the hiring process. Prior research on the effectiveness of these laws in meeting their objective …
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The Big Three and Board Gender Diversity : The Effectiveness of Shareholder Voice
Gormley, Todd A.; Gupta, Vishal K.; Matsa, David A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
In 2017, "The Big Three" institutional investors launched campaigns to increase gender diversity on corporate boards. We estimate that their campaigns led American corporations to add at least 2.5 times as many female directors in 2019 as they had in 2016. Firms increased diversity by...
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A Delegation Approach to Regulating Hiring Discrimination
Martellini, Paolo; Menzio, Guido - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
agent) is repeatedly faced with the opportunity of hiring one among several applicants to fill its vacancies. The firm is … their match with firm. A benevolent and unbiased labor market authority (the principal) enacts a hiring regulation (a direct …-revelation mechanism without transfers) in order to reduce the impact of the firm's bias on its hiring behavior. The hiring regulation is …
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Do Female–Owned Employment Agencies Mitigate Discrimination and Expand Opportunity for Women?
Hunt, Jennifer; Moehling, Carolyn M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
female jobseekers, female proprietors may have sought to mitigate employer discrimination against female jobseekers; their … women may also reflect discrimination mitigation …
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Economic and Statistical Analysis of Discrimination in Hiring
Ehrenberg, Ronald G. - 1983
whether an employer's hiring policies meet the standards required of them by equal opportunity regulations. The purpose of … are considered in administrative or judicial decisions concerning hiring policies. In our analyses, we point out areas …
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