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where on-the-job training is important, job candidates with a record of grade retention are 16% less likely to receive a …
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U.S. CPS gross flows data indicate that in recessions firms actually increase their hiring rates from the pools of the … dynamic behavior of the labor share of GDP. The counter-cyclicality of hiring rates and job values, which may appear counter …
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This paper experimentally examines the employment opportunities of Austrians with and without migration background who apply to job openings. Previous experiments have indicated ethnicity via the name of an applicant, however employers may not always correctly perceive this signal. This study...
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Germany is currently experiencing a high influx of Muslim migrants. From a policy perspective, integration of migrants into the labor market is crucial. Hence, a field experiment was conducted that examined the employment chances of females with backgrounds of migration from Muslim countries,...
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This paper analyses the hiring and separation rates in Tunisia before and after the Arab Spring of 2011. Several models … 2012. The data provides information about important firm characteristics such as industry sector, number of hiring and … estimated to investigate hiring, separation, hiring rate, separation rate, mobility, and net-employment. The results indicate …
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We model a hiring process in which the candidate is evaluated sequentially by two agents of the firm who each observe … characterize how one agent's private valuation of the candidate influences the other agent's hiring practices. This influence is …
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This study explores how both gender and facial attractiveness affect job candidates' chances of obtaining interviews in China's dynamic Internet job board labor market. It examines how discrimination based on these attributes varies over occupation, location, and firms' ownership type and size....
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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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integration. In the present study, we investigate whether this prosocial engagement lowers the hiring discrimination against them …
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We investigate whether the publicly available information on Facebook about job applicants affects employers' hiring … Facebook profile picture appearance on hiring chances when candidates are highly educated and when recruiters are female. …
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