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Age Discrimination in Hiring : Evidence from Age-Blind vs. Non-Age-Blind Hiring Procedures

Neumark, David - 2020

I study age discrimination in hiring, exploiting a difference between age-revealed and partially age-blind hiring procedures. Under the first hiring procedure, age is revealed simultaneously with other applicant information and job offer rates are much lower for older than for younger job...

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What Do Employee Referral Programs Do?

Friebel, Guido - 2019

Employee referral programs (ERPs) are randomly introduced in a grocery chain. Larger referral bonuses increase referrals and decrease referral quality, though the increase in referrals from having an ERP is modest. However, the overall effect of having an ERP is substantial, reducing attrition...

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Hiring as Exploration

Li, Danielle - 2020

This paper views hiring as a contextual bandit problem: to find the best workers over time, firms must balance "exploitation" (selecting from groups with proven track records) with "exploration" (selecting from under-represented groups to learn about quality). Yet modern hiring algorithms, based...

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Personnel Economics : Hiring and Incentives

Oyer, Paul - 2010

We survey the Personnel Economics literature, focusing on how firms establish, maintain, and end employment relationships and on how firms provide incentives to employees. This literature has been very successful in generating models and empirical work about incentive systems. Some of the...

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Evidence on the Relationship between Recruiting and Starting Wage

Faberman, R. Jason - 2016

Using data from the Employment Opportunity Pilot Project, we examine the relationship between the starting wage paid to the worker filling a vacancy, the number of applications attracted by the vacancy, the number of candidates interviewed for the vacancy, and the duration of the vacancy. We...

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A Delegation Approach to Regulating Hiring Discrimination

Martellini, Paolo; Menzio, Guido - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We approach the design of anti-discriminatory labor market regulation as a delegation problem. A private firm (the agent) is repeatedly faced with the opportunity of hiring one among several applicants to fill its vacancies. The firm is biased against applicants from some demographic group, and...

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Venture Capital's "Me Too" Moment

Calder-Wang, Sophie; Gompers, Paul A.; Sweeney, Patrick - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

In this paper, we document the historically low rate of hiring of women in the venture capital sector. We find that the high-profile Ellen Pao v. Kleiner Perkins gender discrimination trial had dramatic treatment effects. In difference-in-differences regressions, we find that the rate of hiring...

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The Demand for Executive Skills

Hansen, Stephen; Ramdas, Tejas; Sadun, Raffaella; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We use a unique corpus of job descriptions for C-suite positions to document skills requirements in top managerial occupations across a large sample of firms. A novel algorithm maps the text of each executive search into six separate skill clusters reflecting cognitive, interpersonal, and...

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Discretion in Hiring

Hoffman, Mitchell - 2015

to forgo the potentially valuable private information of their managers. We study the introduction of job testing across … 15 firms employing low-skilled service sector workers. When faced with similar applicant pools, we find that managers who … appear to hire against test recommendations end up with worse average hires. This suggests that managers often overrule test …

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The Market for CEOs : Evidence from Private Equity

Gompers, Paul A.; Kaplan, Steven N.; Mukharlyamov, Vladimir - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Most research on the CEO labor market studies public company CEOs while largely ignoring CEOs in private equity (PE) funded companies. We fill this gap by studying the market for CEOs among U.S. companies purchased by PE firms in large leveraged buyout transactions. 71% of those companies hired...

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