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Hold Your Fire! Influence of Female Legislators on Gun Legislation in the Us

Goel, Rajeev K.; Nelson, Michael A. - 2023

Objective This paper considers the influence of female legislators on gun legislation across US states. Females have … econometrically estimate the drivers of gun legislation across US states. The dependent variables are alternately the total number of … used. Conclusions Our findings suggest that, when it comes to gun legislation and female legislator representation, it …

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Overconfidence and Gender Equality in the Labor Market

Bastani, Spencer; Giebe, Thomas; Gürtler, Oliver - 2023

Gender differences in overconfidence have been extensively documented in the empirical literature, but the implications for labor market outcomes are not well understood. In this paper, we analyze how men's relatively higher overconfidence, combined with competitive job incentives, affects...

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Non-Common Priors, Incentives, and Promotions: The Role of Learning

Fahn, Matthias; Klein, Nicolas - 2023

We analyze a repeated principal-agent setting in which the principal cares about the agent's verifiable effort as well as an extra profit that can be generated only if the agent is talented. The agent is overconfident about his talent and updates beliefs using Bayes' rule. An exploitation...

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Competition and Career Advancement

Johnsen, Julian; Ku, Hyejin; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2023

In standard promotion tournaments, contestants are ranked based on their output or productivity. We argue that workers' career progression may also depend on their relative rankings in dimensions a priori unrelated to their job performance, such as visibility or in-person presence. Such implicit...

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Interview Sequences and the Formation of Subjective Assessments

Radbruch, Jonas; Schiprowski, Amelie - 2024

Interviewing is a decisive stage of most processes that match candidates to firms and organizations. This paper studies how and why a candidate's interview outcome depends on the other candidates interviewed by the same evaluator. We use large-scale data from high-stakes admission and hiring...

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Digital Technologies and Firms' Employment and Training

Caselli, Mauro; Fourrier-Nicolai, Edwin; Fracasso, Andrea; … - 2024

This study examines the causal influence of digital technologies, specifically operational (ODT) and information digital technologies (IDT), on firms' employment structure using Italian firm-level data. It employs a unique empirical approach, constructing instrumental variables based on...

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Delegation in Hiring: Evidence from a Two-Sided Audit

Cowgill, Bo; Perkowski, Patryk - 2024

Firms increasingly delegate job screening to third-party recruiters, who must not only satisfy employers' demand for different types of candidates, but also manage yield by anticipating candidates' likelihood of accepting offers. We study how recruiters balance these objectives in a novel,...

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The Gender Disclosure Gap: Salary History Bans Unravel When Men Volunteer Their Income

Cowgill, Bo; Agan, Amanda Y.; Gee, Laura K. - 2024

This study investigates whether the success of salary history bans could be limited by job-seekers volunteering their salaries unprompted. We survey American workers in 2019 and 2021 about their recent job searches, distinguishing when candidates were asked about salary history from when they...

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The Greener, the Higher: Labor Demand of Automotive Firms during the Green Transformation

Fackler, Thomas; Falck, Oliver; Goldbeck, Moritz; Hans, … - 2024

We investigate differences in labor demand between German automotive firms specializing in green propulsion technology and those with a focus on combustion engines. To this end, we introduce a firm-level labor demand index based on the near-universe of online job postings and firms’ patent...

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Job security and work absence : evidence from a natural experiment

Lindbeck, Assar; Palme, Mårten; Persson, Mats - 2006

We analyze the consequences for sickness absence of a selective softening of job security legislation for small firms …

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