This paper addresses the question to which extent the complementarity between educationand training can be attributed … at work are strong predictors of training participation whilepersonality traits are not. Once working tasks and other job … related characteristics arecontrolled for, the skill gap in training participation drops considerably for off …

differences on separations and on transfers between stores. We find significant effects of manager ethnicity on hiring patterns in …

behavior when hiring. This article proposes a new methodology using geographic variation to explore the link between employer …

, formal measures of severance-induced firing costs and hiring costs are derived. Firing costs are, it turns out …, systematically less than benefit generosity alone would imply. Moreover their interrelationship with hiring costs, often employed in …

We study how managers value applicant credentials and personal traits in hiring decisions. Using the ordered probit …

In this paper we investigate how active labour market policy programmes affect firms' hiring strategies and, eventually … was conducted in Denmark in 2005-2006 and induced a greater provision of activation, we find that small firms hiring in … the districts where the social experiment was conducted changed their hiring practices in favor of unemployed workers and …

the firms' cost of uncertainty in hiring – through more firm co-payment in the sickness benefit system – may reduce hiring …