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Career Lesbians : Getting Hired for Not Having Kids?

Baert, Stijn - 2013

Using a field experiment, we investigate whether discrimination based on women's sexual orientation differs by age and family constraints. We find weakly significant evidence of discrimination against young heterosexual women. This effect is driven by age (and fertility) rather than by...

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Longer Careers : A Barrier to Hiring and Coworker Advancement?

Ferrari, Irene; Kabátek, Jan; Morris, Todd - 2023

Government policies are encouraging older workers to delay retirement, which may curb younger workers' career advancement. We study a Dutch reform that raised the retirement age by 13 months and nearly tripled employment at age 66. Using monthly linked employer-employee data, we show that...

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The Structure of Hiring Costs in Germany : Evidence from Firm-Level Data

Mühlemann, Samuel - 2013

This paper analyzes the structure of hiring costs of skilled workers in Germany. Using detailed and representative firm …-level data on recruitment and adaptation costs of new hires, we find that average hiring costs amount to more than 8 weeks of …

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Firm-Level Hiring Difficulties : Persistence, Business Cycle and Local Labour Market Influences

Fabling, Richard - 2013

We examine the correlates of reported hiring difficulties at the firm level using linked employer-employee and panel survey data over 2005-2011, focussing on the relative influence of firm-level characteristics, persistence, the business cycle and local labour market liquidity. At both the...

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Recruitment Policies, Job-Filling Rates and Matching Efficiency

Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos - 2020

Recruitment behavior is important for the matching process in the labor market. Using unique linked survey …-administrative data, we explore the relationships between hiring and recruitment policies. Faster hiring goes along with higher search … directed search model in which firms use different recruitment margins in response to productivity shocks. The calibrated model …

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Recruitment and Job Applications of Older Jobseekers from the Establishments' Perspective

Bellmann, Lutz; Brussig, Martin - 2021

paper analyses firms' characteristics correlating with their recruitment behaviour towards the elderly (age 50 and more …

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Can Training Programs or Rather Wage Subsidies Bring the Unemployed Back to Work? A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation for Germany

Neubäumer, Renate - 2010

administrative data set from Germany and statistical matching techniques. Our treatment groups consist of unemployed persons taking …

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Labour Costs and the Decision to Hire the First Employee

Cockx, Bart; Desiere, Sam - 2023

Firms without paid employees account for up to 80% of all firms, but only a small minority ever hires. This paper investigates the relationship between labour costs and the decision to hire a first employee and become an employer. Leveraging a unique policy in Belgium that permanently reduced...

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Gender and Career Progression in Academia : European Evidence

Morettini, Lucio; Tani, Massimiliano - 2023

We study career trajectories of university researchers in Europe, with a particular emphasis on the speed of career progression by gender. Using the panel data collected by the MORE project (Mobility Survey of the Higher Education Sector) - a longitudinal database that gathers survey responses...

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Career or Flexible Work Arrangements? Gender Differences in Self-Employment in a Young Market Economy

Buttler, Dominik - 2019

We examine supply-side determinants of transition from the wage and salary sector to self-employment of women and men living Poland. The empirical analysis is made possible due to a unique and under explored longitudinal survey – Social Diagnosis – that contains rare indicators such as job...

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