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

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

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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Smartphone use and academic performance : first evidence from longitudinal data

Amez, Simon; Vujić, Sunčica; De Marez, Lieven; Baert, … - 2019

To study the causal impact of smartphone use on academic performance, we collected - for the first time worldwide - longitudinal data on students' smartphone use and educational performance. For three consecutive years we surveyed all students attending classes in eleven different study...

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The impact of internship experience during secondary education on schooling and labour market outcomes

Neyt, Brecht; Verhaest, Dieter; Baert, Stijn - 2019

The literature on workplace learning in secondary education has mainly focussed on vocational education programmes. In this study, we examine the impact of internship experience in secondary education on a student’s schooling and early labour market outcomes, by analysing unique, longitudinal...

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Diving in the minds of recruiters : what triggers gender stereotypes in hiring?

Borm, Hannah Van; Baert, Stijn - 2022

We investigate the drivers of gender differentials in hiring chances. More concretely, we test (i) whether recruiters perceive job applicants in gender stereotypical terms when making hiring decisions and (ii) whether the activation of these gender stereotypes in recruiters' minds varies by the...

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Disentangling the attractiveness of telework to employees : a factorial survey experiment

Moens, Eline; Verhofstadt, Elsy; Van Ootegem, Luc; … - 2022

This research adds to the literature on the attractiveness of telework to employees. To this end, we set up an innovative factorial survey experiment in which a high-quality sample of employees evaluates job offers with diverging characteristics, among which a wide variation in telework...

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The productivity impact of business mobility : international evidence

Piva, Mariacristina; Tani, Massimiliano; Vivarelli, Marco - 2017

The aim of this paper is to investigate the productivity impact of business visits, relative to traditional drivers of productivity enhancement, namely capital formation and R&D. To carry out the analysis, we combine unique and novel data on business visits sourced from the U.S. National...

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R&D expenditures and employment : evidence from Europe

Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2017

Using a unique firm-level database comprising the top European R&D investors over the period 2002-2013 and running LSDVC estimates, this study finds a significant labourfriendly impact of R&D expenditures. However, this positive employment effect appears limited in magnitude and entirely due to...

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Testing the employment and skill impact of new technologies : a survey and some methodological issues

Barbieri, Laura; Mussida, Chiara; Piva, Mariacristina; … - 2019

The present technological revolution, characterized by the pervasive and growing presence of robots, automation, Artificial Intelligence and machine learning, is going to transform societies and economic systems. However, this is not the first technological revolution humankind has been facing,...

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The KSTE+I approach and the advent of AI technologies : evidence from the European regions

D'Alessandro, Francesco; Santarelli, Enrico; Vivarelli, … - 2024

In this paper we integrate the insights of the Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship and Innovation (KSTE …+I) with Schumpeter's idea that innovative entrepreneurs creatively apply available local knowledge, possibly mediated by … opportunities brought about by AI technologies by testing the possible correlation between the regional AI knowledge stock and the …

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The role of innovation in industrial dynamics and productivity growth : a survey of the literature

Ugur, Mehment; Vivarelli, Marco - 2020

innovation on firm survival and firm productivity, which constitute the two main channels through which innovation drives growth … perspectives that inform the empirical models allow for heterogeneity in the effects of R&D/innovation on firm survival and …-linearity and volatility in the gains from R&D/innovation, particularly in terms of its effects on firm survival and productivity …

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