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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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Horizontal Mismatch in the Labour Market of Graduates : The Role of Signalling

Domadenik, Polona - 2013

We follow Brodaty et al. (2008) and develop a model within the signalling literature where an employer decides whether … signalling effect of individual and institutional quality of study on individual horizontal match quality.First, based on a …

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The Speed of Employer Learning and Job Market Signaling Revisited

Habermalz, Steffen - 2021

This paper discusses the claim made in Altonji and Pierret (1997) and Lange (2005) that a high speed of employer learning indicates a low value of job market signaling. The claim is first discussed intuitively in light of Spence's original model and then evaluated in a simple extension of a...

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What Do Student Jobs on Graduate Cvs Signal to Employers?

Van Belle, Eva - 2019

outcomes, relying on signalling theory to explain the observed effects. In the current study, we go beyond measuring the effect …

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Asymmetric Labor Market Institutions in the Emu and the Volatility of Inflation and Unemployment Differentials

Abbritti, Mirko - 2012

How does the asymmetry of labor market institutions affect the adjustment of a currency union to shocks? To answer this question, this paper sets up a dynamic currency union model with monopolistic competition and sticky prices, hiring frictions and real wage rigidities. In our analysis, we...

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Striking a Balance : Optimal Tax Policy with Labor Market Duality

Mbara, Gilbert - 2020

This paper develops a dynamic general equilibrium model where employers may avoid making social security contributions by offering some workers "secondary contracts". When calibrated using aggregate tax revenue data, the model delivers estimates of secondary "off the books" employment that are...

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Labour Market Signalling and Unemployment Duration : An Empirical Analysis Using Employer-Employee Data

Frederiksen, Anders - 2006

This paper tests the signalling hypothesis using detailed flow-based employer-employee data from Denmark. The primary … plausible estimates of the signalling effect. It is established that the positive ability signal of being displaced due to a … previously been ignored in the empirical analysis of the signalling hypothesis such as local labour market conditions, the sector …

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Employment problems under socialism

Gutmann, Gernot - In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 14 (1979) 2, pp. 96-100

States with socialist economic systems also suffer from employment problems, a fact which is frequently passed over in silence by the critics of our market economic order. Professor Gernot Gutmann analyses its magnitude and causes.

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Asymmetric Information in the Labor Market, Immigrants and Contract Menu

Kar, Saibal - 2011

Immigrant workers and their labor force participation in host countries have received critical attention in all concerned disciplines, principally owing to its strong implications for well-being of natives. The aging population in many rich countries and several related and unrelated issues...

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