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Crowding Out in the Labour Market: Do Employers Lend a Hand?

Verhaest, Dieter; Bogaert, Elene; Dereymaeker, Jeroen; … - 2016

We test the basic assumption underlying the job competition and crowding out hypothesis: that employers always prefer higher educated to lower educated individuals. To this end, we conduct a randomised field experiment in which duos of fictitious applications by bachelor and master graduates are...

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Does the Adoption of Complex Software Impact Employment Composition and the Skill Content of Occupations? Evidence from Chilean Firms

Almeida, Rita K.; Fernandes, Ana Margarida; Viollaz, Mariana - 2017

A major concern with the rapid spread of technology is that it replaces some jobs, displacing workers. However, technology may raise firm productivity, generating more jobs. The paper contributes to this debate by exploiting a novel panel data set for Chilean firms in all sectors between 2007...

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International Assortative Matching in the European Labor Market

Peeters, Thomas; van Ours, Jan C. - 2022

We investigate whether national borders within Europe hinder the assortative matching of workers to firms in a high skilled labor market. We characterize worker productivity as the ability to contribute to physical output and define firm productivity as the capacity to transform physical output...

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Employers' Demand for Personality Traits

Brenčič, Vera; McGee, Andrew - 2023

We measure firms' demand for workers' personality traits expressed in job ads and find that firms primarily demand workers who are extroverted, conscientious, and open-to-experience. The personality demand measures are correlated with the soft skills required on the job and produce intuitively...

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Are Managers More Machiavellian than Other Employees?

Baktash, Mehrzad B.; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2023

Concerns about corporate scandals and abusive leadership suggest that individuals with an opportunistic and manipulative personality take advantage of incomplete incentive and control systems to get their way into managerial positions. Against this background, we examine whether there is an...

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Demand for Personality Traits, Tasks, and Sorting

Brenčič, Vera; McGee, Andrew - 2023

In job ads, employers express demand for personality traits when seeking workers to perform tasks that can be completed with different behaviors (e.g., communication, problem-solving) but not when seeking workers to perform tasks involving narrowly prescribed sets of behaviors such as routine...

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Human Values and Selection into Supervisory Positions: Evidence from Nine European Countries

Hazans, Mihails; Masso, Jaan; Maurseth, Per Botolf - 2023

Do employees with supervisory responsibilities differ from other workers in terms of human values, especially those potentially affecting the quality and efficiency of supervision? This paper uses data from rounds 7-9 of the European Social Survey to examine the selection of employees into...

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The Peter Principle: An Experiment

Dickinson, David L.; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

The Peter Principle states that, after a promotion, the observed output of promotedemployees tends to fall. Lazear (2004) models this principle as resulting from a regression tothe mean of the transitory component of ability...

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The Value of Hiring through Referrals

Burks, Stephen V.; Cowgill, Bo; Hoffman, Mitchell; … - 2013

Employee referrals are a very common means by which firms hire new workers. Past work suggests that workers hired via referrals often perform better than non-referred workers, but we have little understanding as to why. In this paper, we demonstrate that this is primarily because referrals allow...

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The Impact of Peer Performance and Relative Rank on Managerial Career Attainment: Evidence from College Students

Ribas, Rafael Perez; Sampaio, Breno; Trevisan, Giuseppe - 2024

class rank on college students' managerial attainment is crucial for understanding some determinants of career advancement …. This paper estimates the effect of a low rank in a highperforming class on the probability of college students attaining a … employment registries. For most programs, this university divides first-year students into two classes based on their preferences …

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