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Temporary Employment, Job Flows and Productivity : A Tale of Two Reforms

Cappellari, Lorenzo - 2012

We investigate the effects of two reforms of temporary employment using panel data on Italian firms. We exploit variation in their implementation across regions and sectors for identification. Our results show that the reform of apprenticeship contracts increased job turnover and induced the...

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What Does a Job Candidate's Age Signal to Employers?

Van Borm, Hannah - 2020

Research has shown that hiring discrimination is a barrier for older job candidates in many OECD countries. However, little research has delved into why older job candidates are discriminated against. Therefore, we have conducted an online scenario experiment involving recruiters to empirically...

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Unemployment or Overeducation : Which is a Worse Signal to Employers?

Baert, Stijn - 2014

This study aims at estimating the stigma effect of unemployment and overeducation within one framework. To this end, we conduct a field experiment in the Belgian labour market. We send out trios of fictitious male job applications to real vacancies. These applications differ only by the labour...

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Workers, Firms and Life-Cycle Wage Dynamics

Bingley, Paul - 2018

Studies of individual wage dynamics typically ignore firm heterogeneity, whereas decompositions of earnings into worker and firm effects abstract from life-cycle considerations. We study firm effects in individual wage dynamics using administrative data on the population of Italian employers and...

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Globalization, technological change and skills : evidence from Ethiopia

Haile, Getinet Astatike; Srour, Ilina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2017

There is a dearth of research on the impact of technological change over employment in least developed countries (LDCs) embarking on globalization and consequent international technological transfer. Using a panel of 1,940 Ethiopian firms over the period 1996-2004 and deploying GMMSYS estimates,...

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What does a job candidate's age signal to employers?

Borm, Hannah Van; Burn, Ian; Baert, Stijn - 2019

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Robots and the origin of their labour-saving impact

Montobbio, Fabio; Staccioli, Jacopo; Virgillito, Maria … - 2020

This paper investigates the presence of explicit labour-saving heuristics within robotic patents. It analyses innovative actors engaged in robotic technology and their economic environment (identity, location, industry), and identifies the technological fields particularly exposed to...

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Why is unemployment duration a sorting criterion in hiring?

Van Belle, Eva; Caers, Ralf; Couck, Marijke de; Di … - 2017

Recent evidence from large-scale field experiments has shown that employers use job candidates’ unemployment duration as a sorting criterion. In the present study, we investigate the mechanisms underlying this pattern. To this end, we conduct a lab experiment in which participants make hiring...

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What does someone's gender identity signal to employers?

Borm, Hannah Van; Dhoop, Marlot; Acker, Allien Van; … - 2020

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to explore the mechanisms underlying hiring discrimination against transgender men. Design/methodology/approach - The authors conduct a scenario experiment with final-year business students in which fictitious hiring decisions are made about transgender or...

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Demand and innovation : theory and evidence

Dawid, Herbert; Pellegrino, Gabriele; Vivarelli, Marco - 2017

While the extant innovation literature has provided extensive evidence of the so-called "demand-pull" effect, the … possible diverse impact of demand evolution on product vs process innovation activities has not been yet investigated. This … innovation. This prediction is then tested through a dynamic microeconometric model, controlling for R&D persistence, sample …

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