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 …

conduct a lab experiment in which participants make hiring decisions concerning fictitious job candidates with diverging … duration of unemployment on hiring intentions is mediated by the four theories. The lower hiring chances of the long …

-shot hiring subsidy targeted at low-educated unemployed youths during the Great Recession recovery in Belgium. The subsidy …

non-college educated black workers at time of hiring. We also find that employers directly observe most of the … productivity of college graduates at hiring and learn very little over time about these workers. …

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 salience of gender in a particular hiring context and the gender …