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employers is very correlated, but that employers’ hiring behavior is more idiosyncratic. Workers discriminate using the race and …
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1 and 2. They choose whether the hiring decision between themselves and another worker is made either by a participant … delegate their hiring decisions to the algorithm. In the baseline treatments, we observe that workers choose the manager more … often than the algorithm, and managers also prefer to make the hiring decisions themselves rather than delegate them to the …
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discrimination. To reveal the limitations of this taxonomy and enrich it psychologically, we design a hiring experiment that rules …
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others reveal that subjects expect the effect of the gender stereotypes of tasks but underestimate others' bets on diversity. …
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The persistent lack of workplace diversity in management and leadership may lead to organizational vulnerabilities … increase demographic diversity, there is a dearth of empirical evidence on effective ways to reach them. We use a natural field … different types of signals regarding the extent and manner in which the employer values diversity among its workers. We find …
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effort the incumbent principal devotes to hiring. Then the quality of the appointment may increase with the length of the … leaves office, may induce better hiring. …
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large-scale data from high-stakes admission and hiring processes, where candidates are quasi-randomly assigned to evaluators …' votes of up to 40% and distorting final admission and hiring decisions. Our findings are in line with a contrast effect …
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mechanism, all workers could face pressure to avoid the stigma of silence. Our data shows a large percentage of workers (28 …
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This paper characterizes efficient labor-market allocations in a labor selection model. The model's crucial aspect is cross-sectional heterogeneity for new job contacts, which leads to an endogenous selection threshold for new hires. With cross-sectional dispersion calibrated to microeconomic...
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Firms without paid employees account for up to 80% of all firms, but only a small minority ever hires. This paper investigates the relationship between labour costs and the decision to hire a first employee and become an employer. Leveraging a unique policy in Belgium that permanently reduced...
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