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In many professional service firms, new associates work long hours while competing in up-or-out promotion contests. Our model explores why these firms require young professionals to take on heavy work loads while simultaneously facing significant risks of dismissal. We argue that the...
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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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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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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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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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Recruitment behavior is important for the matching process in the labor market. Using unique linked survey …-administrative data, we explore the relationships between hiring and recruitment policies. Faster hiring goes along with higher search … directed search model in which firms use different recruitment margins in response to productivity shocks. The calibrated model …
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high degree of uncertainty about their likelihood of job-finding to apply with recruitment agencies. These results …
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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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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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Part-time work is a popular way to reconcile work and family responsibilities. This study investigates how easy it is for men and women to get part-time jobs. To assess this question, I first analyze the hiring decisions of recruiters who screen jobseekers on an online recruiting platform and...
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