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A welfare analysis of "junk" information and spam filters
Falkinger, Josef - 2008
This paper analyses the equilibrium effects of individual information filters. Information is modelled as advertisements which are distributed across a population of consumers with heterogeneous preferences. An advertisement that provides knowledge about a product with little or no utility for a...
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Is it sex or personality? The impact of sex-stereotypes on discrimination in applicant selection
Weichselbaumer, Doris - 2000
This paper investigates whether differential treatment of men and women in the labor market is due to unobservable differences in productivity or if it is motivated by a taste for discrimination. While studies on sex-discrimination typically control for human capital (formal education,...
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Recruiting for Small Business Growth: Micro-level Evidence
Gidehag, Anton; Lodefalk, Magnus - 2016
We examine the link between new employees in leading positions and subsequent productivity in small- and medium-sized (SME) enterprises. Managers and professionals are likely to possess important tacit knowledge. They are also in a position to influence the employing firm. Exploiting rich and...
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The Effect of Hiring Top Workers on Productivity: What is the Role of Absorptive Capacity?
Lodefalk, Magnus; Tang, Aili - 2017
We examine heterogeneous productivity effects of hiring top workers on small and medium-sized enterprises, using longitudinal employer-employee data. We find the productivity effect to be stronger for firms with higher absorptive capacity in terms of having a well-educated workforce, being in a...
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How broadband internet affects labor market matching
Bhuller, Manudeep; Kostøl, Andreas Ravndal; Vigtel, … - 2020
How the internet affects job matching is not well understood due to a lack of data on job vacancies and quasi-experimental variation in internet use. This paper helps fill this gap using plausibly exogenous roll-out of broadband infrastructure in Norway, and comprehensive data on recruiters,...
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Between agora and shopping mall
Falkinger, Josef - 2008
Advertisements provide consumers with knowledge about private products, whereas political information is required to provide voters with knowledge of public issues. Modern information technologies and globalisation are increasing the exposure of individuals to information. Goods advertising is...
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Are homosexuals discriminated against in the hiring process
Ahmed, Ali; Andersson, Lina; Hammarstedt, Mats - 2011
This paper presents the first field experiment on sexual orientation discrimination in the hiring process in the Swedish labor market. Job applications were sent to about 4,000 employers in 10 different occupations in Sweden. Gender and sexual orientation were randomly assigned to applications....
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Selection into Experiments: Evidence from a Population of Students
Schulz, Jonathan; Sunde, Uwe; Thiemann, Petra; Thöni, … - 2019
literature; and a recruitment experiment that varied information provided in a typical e-mail recruitment procedure for lab … participants. In the recruitment experiment, students were randomly assigned to four conditions that highlighted altruistic motives … along risk preferences, time preferences, and overconfidence. Although the recruitment conditions affect participation rates …
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Are the effects of informational interventions driven by salience?
Bettinger, Eric; Cunha, Nina Menezes; Lichand, Guilherme; … - 2021
Informational interventions have been shown to significantly change behavior across a variety of settings. Is that because they lead subjects to merely update beliefs in the right direction? Or, alternatively, is it to a large extent because they increase the salience of the decision they...
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Can Taste and Nudging Impact Healthy Meal Consumption? Evidence from a Lunch Restaurant Field Experiment
Thunström, Linda; Nordström, Jonas - 2012
Previous research shows that taste is one of the most important factors in determining food choices, and that food choices may be affected by "nudging". We analyze how taste, as determined by meal attributes, and nudging affects consumption of a healthy labeled meal. Our analysis is based on a...
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