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skill demands may be a potent deterrent to explicit discrimination of the type we document here. We also find that firms …
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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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In this paper we use micro-level data on employers and employees to investigate whether Affirmative Action procedures lead firms to hire minority or female employees who are less qualified than workers who might otherwise be hired. Our measures of qualifications include the educational...
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I study age discrimination in hiring, exploiting a difference between age-revealed and partially age-blind hiring … job offer rate. This evidence is strongly consistent with age discrimination in hiring … procedures. Under the first hiring procedure, age is revealed simultaneously with other applicant information and job offer rates …
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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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applicant's criminal record later in the hiring process or make inaccurate judgments based on an applicant's demographic … hiring managers at nearly a thousand U.S. businesses to make incentive-compatible decisions under different randomized …
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. Discrimination exhibits little geographical dispersion, but two digit industry explains roughly half of the cross-firm variation in … quintile of racial discrimination responsible for nearly half of lost contacts to Black applicants in the experiment … findings establish that systemic illegal discrimination is concentrated among a select set of large employers, many of which …
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We use novel data from a leading online job search platform to examine the impact of corporate distress on firms' ability to attract job applicants. Survey responses suggest that job seekers accurately perceive firms' financial condition, as measured by companies' credit default swap prices and...
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job creation. In periods when labor demand and supply are in balance, either hiring credits or worker subsidies can be … used to boost employment - hiring credits by reducing labor costs for employers, and worker subsidies by raising the … hiring credits targeting employment of disadvantaged workers, and worker subsidies targeting low-income families. Hiring …
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Job differentiation gives employers market power, allowing them to pay workers less than their marginal productivity. We estimate a differentiated jobs model using application data from Careerbuilder.com. We find direct evidence of substantial job differentiation. Without the use of instruments...
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