We investigate whether the publicly available information on Facebook about job applicants affects employers' hiring … Belgium. The only characteristic in which these candidates differ is the unique Facebook profile that can be found online with … their name. Candidates with the most beneficial Facebook picture obtain approximately 39% more job interview invitations …

within-country disparities. We use social-media data - Facebook interests - to construct novel regional measures of patience …

the environment of social networking sites hostile to many users. We conduct a novel experiment in a Facebook setting to … that participants exposed to civil Facebook interaction are significantly more trusting. In contrast, when the use of … Facebook is accompanied by the experience of online incivility, no significant changes occur in users' behavior. These results …

agency in employment relationships relies on highly stylized assumptions regarding human motivation, e.g., that employees …

entrepreneurship on the basis of stated motivation, but with no evidence that being 'forced' into entrepreneurship through economic … necessity is a significant factor. Motivation towards entrepreneurship is therefore highly multidimensional. Multivariate …