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Unbundling the relationship between economic shocks and crime
Ferraz, Eduardo; Soares, Rodrigo Reis; Vargas, Juan F. - 2021
Intuitively, by increasing the opportunity cost of engaging in criminal activities, positive economic shocks should reduce crime. However, the empirical evidence on the relationship between economic shocks and criminal behavior is at best ambiguous. This may be because certain types of shocks...
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Teaching, gender and labour market incentives
Carroll, David; Parasnis, Jaai; Tani, Massimiliano - 2018
The concentration of women in the teaching profession is widely noted and generally attributed to gender differences in preferences and social roles. Further, gender segregation exists within this profession - women make up almost all of the primary and pre-primary teaching cohorts, while men...
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Transitory earnings opportunities and educational scarring of men
Jósef Sigurdsson - 2023
Men have fallen behind women in education in developed countries. Why? I study the impact of a transitory increase in the opportunity cost of schooling on men's and women's educational attainment. I exploit a reform in Iceland that lowered income taxes to zero for one year and compare teenagers...
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Is there a role for higher education institutions in improving the quality of first employment?
McGuinness, Séamus; Whelan, Adele; Bergin, Adele - 2016
This paper examines the potential role of higher education institutions in reducing labour market mismatch amongst new graduates. The research suggests that increasing the practical aspects of degree programmes, irrespective of the field of study, will reduce the incidence of initial mismatch....
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Crowding out in the labour market : do employers lend a hand?
Verhaest, Dieter; Bogaert, Elene; Dereymaeker, Jeroen; … - 2016
We test the basic assumption underlying the job competition and crowding out hypothesis: that employers always prefer higher educated to lower educated individuals. To this end, we conduct a randomised field experiment in which duos of fictitious applications by bachelor and master graduates are...
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Culture as a hiring criterion: systemic discrimination in a procedurally fair hiring process
Meurs, Dominique; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2021
Criteria used in hiring workers often do not reflect the skills required on the job. By comparing trainee performance for newly hired workers conditional on competitive civil service examination scores for hiring French public sector workers, we test whether women and men with the same civil...
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Do recruiters select workers with different personality traits for different tasks? : a discrete choice experiment
Wehner, Caroline; Grip, Andries de; Pfeifer, Harald - 2020
This paper explores whether firms recruit workers with different personality traits for different tasks. For our analysis, we used data from a discrete choice experiment conducted among recruiters of 634 firms in Germany. Recruiters were asked to choose between job applicants who differed in...
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Search costs and the determinants of job search
Beam, Emily A. - 2020
high degree of uncertainty about their likelihood of job-finding to apply with recruitment agencies. These results …
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Selection into experiments : evidence from a population of students
Schulz, Jonathan F.; Sunde, Uwe; Thiemann, Petra; … - 2019
literature; and a recruitment experiment that varied information provided in a typical e-mail recruitment procedure for lab … participants. In the recruitment experiment, students were randomly assigned to four conditions that highlighted altruistic motives … along risk preferences, time preferences, and overconfidence. Although the recruitment conditions affect participation rates …
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What makes an employer?
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander - 2019
As the policy debate on entrepreneurship increasingly centers on firm growth in terms of job creation, it is important to better understand which variables influence the first hiring decision and which ones influence the subsequent survival as an employer. Using the German Socioeconomic Panel...
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