relationship between the number of (rejected) job applicants and the number of employees hired. We use data compiled from filled …

central question of what employers act on in a job application. The method involved sending qualitatively identical resumes …

analyze the effect of increasing the number of competing employers from two to three. In all treatments, more efficient … workers invest more often in education and employers offer higher wages for workers who have invested. However, separation is …

This paper presents a test of the educational signaling hypothesis. If employers use education as a signal in the … hiring process, they will rely more on education when less is otherwise known about applicants. We find that employers are … more likely to lower educational standards when an informal, more informative recruitment channel is used, so we conclude …

We exploit administrative data on young German workers and their employers to study the long-term effects of an early …