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What Does Job Applicants' Body Art Signal to Employers?
Baert, Stijn; Herregods, Jolien; Sterkens, Philippe - 2023
of hireability and rated personality, similar in terms of rated taste to collaborate but worse in terms of rated direct …
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Do They Find You on Facebook? Facebook Profile Picture and Hiring Chances
Baert, Stijn - 2015
We investigate whether the publicly available information on Facebook about job applicants affects employers' hiring decisions. To this end, we conduct a field experiment in which fictitious job applications are sent to real job openings in Belgium. The only characteristic in which these...
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Whoever You Want Me to Be: Personality and Incentives
McGee, Andrew; McGee, Peter - 2020
What can employers learn from personality tests when job applicants have incentives to misrepresent themselves? Using a … within-subject, laboratory experiment, we compare personality measures with and without incentives for misrepresentation …. Incentivized personality measures are weakly to moderately correlated with non-incentivized measures in most treatments but are …
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Social connections and the sorting of workers to firms
Kramarz, Francis; Nordström Skans, Oskar; Hensvik, Lena; … - 2019
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