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Bonus culture: Competitive pay, screening, and multitasking

Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - 2013

compensation. The model combines multitasking and screening, embedded into a Hotelling-like framework. Competition for the most …

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Can Reputation Discipline the Gig Economy? Experimental Evidence from an Online Labor Market

Benson, Alan; Sojourner, Aaron J.; Umyarov, Akhmed - 2015

In two experiments, we examine the effects of employer reputation in an online labor market (Amazon Mechanical Turk) in which employers may decline to pay workers while keeping their work product. First, in an audit study of employers by a blinded worker, we find that working only for good...

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Do They Find You on Facebook? Facebook Profile Picture and Hiring Chances

Baert, Stijn - 2015

We investigate whether the publicly available information on Facebook about job applicants affects employers' hiring decisions. To this end, we conduct a field experiment in which fictitious job applications are sent to real job openings in Belgium. The only characteristic in which these...

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The Causal Effect of Trust

Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Huffman, David B.; … - 2018

Trust affects almost all human relationships – in families, organizations, markets and politics. However, identifying the conditions under which trust, defined as people's beliefs in the trustworthiness of others, has a causal effect on the efficiency of human interactions has proven to be...

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A Pigouvian Approach to Congestion in Matching Markets

He, Yinghua; Magnac, Thierry - 2018

Recruiting agents, or "programs" costly screen “applicants” in matching processes, and congestion in a market increases with the number of applicants to be screened. To combat this externality that applicants impose on programs, application costs can be used as a Pigouvian tax. Higher costs...

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Gender-Targeted Job Ads in the Recruitment Process: Evidence from China

Kuhn, Peter J.; Shen, Kailing; Zhang, Shuo - 2018

We document how explicit employer requests for applicants of a particular gender enter the recruitment process on a Chinese job board. We find that 95 percent of callbacks to gendered jobs are of the requested gender; worker self-selection ("compliance" with employers' requests) and employer...

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The Effect of Employment Protection on Firms' Worker Selection

Butschek, Sebastian; Sauermann, Jan - 2019

To estimate the causal effect of employment protection on firms' worker selection, we study a policy change that reduced dismissal costs for the employers of over a tenth of Sweden's workforce. Our difference-in-differences analysis of firms' hiring uses individual ability measures including...

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Targeting Disability Insurance Applications with Screening

Godard, Mathilde; Koning, Pierre; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2019

We examine the targeting effects of increased scrutiny in the screening of Disability Insurance (DI) applications using … exogenous variation in screening induced by a policy reform. The reform raised DI application costs and revealed more … not apply under the old system of more lax screening, those who are discouraged from applying are in worse health, have …

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Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Health Behaviors after Three Years

Courtemanche, Charles; Marton, James; Ukert, Benjamin; … - 2018

This paper examines the impacts of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) – which substantially increased insurance coverage through regulations, mandates, subsidies, and Medicaid expansions – on behaviors related to future health risks after three years. Using data from the Behavioral Risk Factor...

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Screening, competition, and job design: economic origins of good jobs

Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2010

-sharing, screening opportunities, and competition are important driving forces behind these new forms of work organization. We document … control strategy prevails, while the possibility of screening renders the trust strategy profitable. The introduction of …

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