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Unemployment or Overeducation: Which is a Worse Signal to Employers?

Baert, Stijn; Verhaest, Dieter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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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Better Sexy than Flexy? A Lab Experiment Assessing the Impact of Perceived Attractiveness and Personality Traits on Hiring Decisions

Baert, Stijn; Decuypere, Lynn - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

In this letter we present a laboratory experiment to assess the relative and independent effect of perceived attractiveness and personality traits on hiring decisions. Our results indicate that attractiveness and conscientiousness, followed by emotional stability, are important drivers of...

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Overeducation at the Start of the Career: Stepping Stone or Trap?

Baert, Stijn; Cockx, Bart; Verhaest, Dieter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This study investigates whether young unemployed graduates who accept a job below their level of education accelerate or delay the transition into a job that matches their level of education. We adopt the Timing of Events approach to identify this dynamic treatment effect using monthly calendar...

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Do Employers Discriminate Less If Vacancies Are Difficult to Fill? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Baert, Stijn; Cockx, Bart; Gheyle, Niels; Vandamme, Cora - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We empirically test the relationship between hiring discrimination and labour market tightness at the level of the occupation. To this end, we conduct a correspondence test in the youth labour market. In line with theoretical expectations, we find that, compared to natives, candidates with a...

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Globalization and Employment: Imported Skill Biased Technological Change in Developing Countries

Conte, Andrea; Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper discusses the occurrence of Skill-Enhancing Technology Import (SETI), namely the relationship between imports of embodied technology and widening skill-based employment differentials in a sample of low and middle income countries (LMICs). In doing so, this paper provides a direct...

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Mister Sandman, Bring Me Good Marks! On the Relationship Between Sleep Quality and Academic Achievement

Baert, Stijn; Omey, Eddy; Verhaest, Dieter; Vermeir, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This study assesses the relationship between sleep quality and academic achievement. We survey college students about their sleep quality by means of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) before the start of their first exam period at university. PSQI scores are matched with course marks in...

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Is Ethnic Discrimination Due to Distaste or Statistics?

Baert, Stijn; De Pauw, Ann-Sophie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Employing a lab experiment, we directly test the empirical importance of key attitudes underlying the models of taste-based and statistical discrimination in explaining ethnic hiring discrimination. We find evidence that employer concern that co-workers and customers will prefer collaborating...

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Structural Change and Innovation as Exit Strategies from the Middle Income Trap

Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

capabilities and knowledge, considered as key inputs to foster economic growth. Then, attention will be turned to structural change … and innovation, trying to map – using the taxonomies put forward by the innovation literature – the concrete ways through … involved into globalized markets where domestic innovation has to be complemented by the role played by international …

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Drivers of Entrepreneurship and Post-Entry Performance of Newborn Firms in Developing Countries

Quatraro, Francesco; Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

The aim of this paper is to provide an updated survey of the "state of the art" in entrepreneurial studies, with a particular focus on developing countries (DCs). In particular, the same concept of "entrepreneurship" will be critically discussed, then moving to the institutional, macroeconomic...

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Entrepreneurship in Advanced and Developing Countries: A Microeconomic Perspective

Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

The purpose of this paper is to provide a contribution to the identification of the role of entrepreneurship in economic growth by mapping out: 1) alternative ways of looking at entrepreneurship, distinguishing 'creative destruction' from simple 'turbulence'; 2) the different microeconomic...

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