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decision-making process of hiring committees within a large private company. In the hiring process, committee members first … conduct independent one-to-one interviews and give individual recommendations before deliberating on a collective hiring … decision. We find that committees' final hiring decisions are systematically less aligned with the initial recommendations of …
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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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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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This paper analyzes the drivers of wage differences among college graduates who hold a degree in a different field of study. We focus on Turkey, an emerging country that is characterized by a sustained expansion of higher education. We estimate conditional wage gaps by field of study using OLS...
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This paper analyzes the long-term effects of graduating in a recession on earnings, job mobility, and employer characteristics for a large sample of Canadian college graduates using matched university-employer-employee data from 1982 to 1999. The results are used to assess the role of job...
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Promotions serve two purposes. They ought to provide incentives for employees and to select the best employee for a management position. However, if non-contractible managerial decision rights give rise to private benefits and preference misalignment between managers and the firm, these two...
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We examine the impact of reputational concerns on seeking advice. While seeking can improve performance, it may affect how others perceive the seeker's competence. In an online experiment with white-collar professionals (N=2,521), we test how individuals navigate this tradeoff and if others'...
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personnel also diverge. This paper outlines results of a questionnaire survey on recruitment methods of enterprises in Tanzania …. The authors tried to discover differences in the recruitment strategies of Tanzanian-African and Tanzanian-Asian companies …, exogenously given institutional restrictions. Thus, strategies of personnel recruitment seem to be alike. …
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Why do some leaders succeed while others fail? This question is important, but its complexitymakes it hard to study systematically. We examine an industry in which there are welldefinedobjectives, small teams, and exact measures of leaders’ characteristics. We showthat a strong predictor of a...
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We analyze a competitive labor market in which workers signal their productivities through education à la Spence (1973), and firms have the option of auditing to learn workers' productivities. Audits are costly and non-contractible. We characterize the trade-offs between signaling by workers...
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