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Homosexuality's signalling function in job candidate screening: why gay is (mostly) OK
Sterkens, Philippe; Dalle, Axana; Wuyts, Joey; Pauwels, Ines - 2022
To explain the mixed findings on hiring discrimination against homosexual applicants, we explore the perceptual drivers behind employers' evaluations of gay men and lesbian women. Therefore, we conduct an extensive vignette experiment among 404 genuine recruiters, for which we test...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013198641
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Job market signaling and employer learning
Alós-Ferrer, Carlos (contributor); Prat, Julien (contributor) - 2008
This paper extends the job market signaling model of Spence (1973) by allowing firms to learn the ability of their employees over time. Contrary to the model without employer learning, we find that the Intuitive Criterion does not always select a unique separating equilibrium. When the Intuitive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003652697
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Information and racial exclusion
Lundberg, Shelly (contributor); Startz, Richard (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
This paper presents several economic models that explore the relationships between imperfect information, racial income disparities, and segregation. The use of race as a signal arises here, as in models of statistical discrimination, from imperfect information about the return to transactions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002485567
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Signaling and employer learning with instruments
Aryal, Gaurab; Bhuller, Manudeep; Lange, Fabian - 2020
The social and the private returns to education differ when education can increase productivity, and also be used to signal productivity. We show how instrumental variables can be used to separately identify and estimate the social and private returns to education within the employer learning...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012169372
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Clean money in a dirty system : relationship networks and land rezoning in Queensland
Murray, Cameron K.; Frijters, Paul - 2015
power of landowner relationship networks and lobbying behaviour on successfully gaining value-enhancing rezoning. A State …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010516454
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Democratisation under diversity: theory and evidence from Indonesian communities
Mitra, Anirban; Pal, Sarmistha - 2021
the constituent ethnic groups. Our theory highlights the role of the local elite in lobbying for policies which favour … coordination costs across ethnic groups are relevant in determining the equilibrium lobbying behaviour. This results in ethnic … non-developmental items, all of which is consistent with our theory. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012430676
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Factor shares, redistribution and growth in a captured democracy
Vindigni, Andrea - 2024
political power at the expenses of the median voter. In particular, investments in lobbying activities allow the rich to obtain … variable taxes and lobbying. In addition, it is established the existence of a transitional dynamics featuring convergence to a … balanced growth path, characterized by constant taxes and lobbying (and a constant growth rate of consumption and capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014461501
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Lobbying for industrialization : theory and evidence
Veselov, Dmitriy; Yarkin, Alexander - 2024
across sectors, attracting substantial lobbying efforts by special interest groups. Yet, the link between structural change … and lobbying remains underexplored. Using more than 150 years of data on parliamentary petitions in USA and Britain, we … measure historical lobbying and document several stylized facts. First, lobbying over industrial policies follows a hump …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014545117
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Privatization and productivity in Romanian industry : evidence from a comprehensive enterprise panel
Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos - 2001
We construct and analyze a unique database with 1992-99 information on privatization transactions and labor productivity for the entire surviving population of initially state-owned industrial corporations in Romania. The data permit us to describe the post-privatization ownership structure and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402871
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Tournaments and managerial incentives in China's listed firms : new evidence
Kato, Takao (contributor); Long, Cheryl (contributor) - 2008
predictions from the tournament theory to the context of transition economies in which state ownership still plays a significant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003759900