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 …

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 …

regional training supply and employees ́training participation. Controlling for other regional factors such as the local … training participation is significantly higher in regions with many firms in the training supply market. The predictive power …

This paper analyzes the returns to training that was co-financed by the German voucher program Bildungsprämie. The … estimation strategy compares outcomes of participants in voucher training with voucher recipients who intended to participate in … training, but did not do so because of a random event like course cancellation by the provider of training. We find no impact …

life-long-learning strategies. In this paper our aim is to explain to what extent the variation in training investments is … determinants of training. Rather than analyzing single determinants or groups of variables, we decompose the variation into a … show that both firm-, job- and worker-level heterogeneity explains training participation and that firm heterogeneity is …

besides the impacts of the unemployment benefit system and training schemes. Finally, we investigate whether prior … long-term unemployment. Training programmes organised by labour offices should not be regarded as a panacea for the …