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Do Employers Prefer Migrant Workers? Evidence from a Chinese Job Board
Kuhn, Peter - 2015
workers to locals who are identically matched to the job's requirements; these preferences are strongest in jobs requiring … skilled jobs. Possible sources of this advantage include positive selection of nonlocals into migration, negative selection of … local workers into formal search for unskilled private sector jobs, efficiency wage effects related to unskilled migrants …
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The Age Twist in Employers’ Gender Requests : Evidence from Four Job Boards
Delgado Helleseter, Miguel - 2016
When permitted by law, employers sometimes state the preferred age and gender of their employees in job ads. We study the interaction of advertised requests for age and gender on one Mexican and three Chinese job boards, showing that firms' explicit gender requests shift dramatically away from...
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Gender Discrimination in Job Ads : Theory and Evidence
Kuhn, Peter - 2015
' underlying gender preferences are highly job-specific, with many firms requesting men for some jobs and women for others, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013037621
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Pandemics, Global Supply Chains, and Local Labor Demand : Evidence from 100 Million Posted Jobs in China
Fang, Hanming; Ge, Chunmian; Huang, Hanwei; Li, Hongbin - 2022
This paper studies how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected labor demand using over 100 million posted jobs on one of the … largest online platforms in China. Our data reveals that, due to the effects of the pandemic both in China and abroad, the … number of newly posted jobs within the first 13 weeks after the Wuhan lockdown on January 23, 2020 was about one third lower …
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Spurring Job Creation in Response to Severe Recessions : Reconsidering Hiring Credits
Neumark, David - 2011
credits targeting the disadvantaged have generally been regarded as ineffective at both creating jobs and increasing incomes …
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Unfit for Service : The Implications of Rising Obesity for U.S. Military Recruitment
Cawley, John - 2010
Excess body weight or body fat hinders performance of military duties. As a result, the U.S. military has weight-for-height and percent body fat standards for enlistment. This paper estimates the number and percent of military-age civilians who meet, and do not meet, the current active duty...
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The Establishment-Level Behavior of Vacancies and Hiring
Davis, Steven J. - 2010
This paper is the first to study vacancies, hires, and vacancy yields at the establishment level in the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, a large sample of U.S. employers. To interpret the data, we develop a simple model that identifies the flow of new vacancies and the job-filling rate...
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The Hired Gun Mechanism
Andreoni, James - 2011
We present and experimentally test a mechanism that provides a simple, natural, low cost, and realistic solution to the problem of compliance with socially determined efficient actions, such as contributing to a public good. We note that small self-governing organizations often place enforcement...
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Duration Dependence and Labor Market Conditions : Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment
Kroft, Kory - 2012
This paper studies the role of employer behavior in generating "negative duration dependence" -- the adverse effect of a longer unemployment spell -- by sending fictitious resumes to real job postings in 100 U.S. cities. Our results indicate that the likelihood of receiving a callback for an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013100673
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Boarding a Sinking Ship? An Investigation of Job Applications to Distressed Firms
Brown, Jennifer - 2012
We use novel data from a leading online job search platform to examine the impact of corporate distress on firms' ability to attract job applicants. Survey responses suggest that job seekers accurately perceive firms' financial condition, as measured by companies' credit default swap prices and...
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