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Does It Pay to Care? Prosocial Engagement and Employment Opportunities
Baert, Stijn; Vujić, Sunčica - 2016
We investigate whether, why and when prosocial engagement has a causal effect on individual employment opportunities. To this end, a field experiment is conducted in which volunteering activities are randomly assigned to fictitious job applications sent to genuine vacancies. We find that...
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Selecting Names for Experiments on Ethnic Discrimination
Baert, Stijn; Lippens, Louis; Van Borm, Hannah - 2022
ethnic minorities based on field experiments using fictitious applications. However, these findings may be exaggerated as the … names used for ethnic minorities in various experiments may have also signaled low socioeconomic class. Therefore, in this … validity of future experiments on ethnic discrimination. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013426373
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Does it pay to care? : prosocial engagement and employment opportunities
Baert, Stijn; Vujić, Sunčica - 2016
We investigate whether, why and when prosocial engagement has a causal effect on individual employment opportunities. To this end, a field experiment is conducted in which volunteering activities are randomly assigned to fictitious job applications sent to genuine vacancies. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449875
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Selecting names for experiments on ethnic discrimination
Baert, Stijn; Lippens, Louis; Borm, Hannah Van - 2022
ethnic minorities based on field experiments using fictitious applications. However, these findings may be exaggerated as the … names used for ethnic minorities in various experiments may have also signaled low socioeconomic class. Therefore, in this … validity of future experiments on ethnic discrimination. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013358948
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A Signal of Diligence? Student Work Experience and Later Employment Chances
Baert, Stijn; Rotsaert, Olivier; Verhaest, Dieter; … - 2015
We investigate the impact of student work experience on later hiring chances. To completely rule out potential endogeneity, we present a field experiment in which various forms of student work experience are randomly disclosed by more than 1000 fictitious graduates applying for jobs in Belgium....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307399
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Getting Grey Hairs in the Labour Market: An Alternative Experiment on Age Discrimination
Baert, Stijn; Norga, Jennifer; Thuy, Yannick; Van … - 2015
This study presents a new field experimental approach for measuring age discrimination in hiring. In addition to the classical approach in which candidates' ages are randomly assigned within pairs of fictitious resumes that are sent to real vacancies, we randomly assign activities undertaken by...
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Field experimental evidence on gender discrimination in hiring: Biased as Heckman and Siegelman predicted?
Baert, Stijn - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 9 (2015) 2015-25, pp. 1-11
Correspondence studies are nowadays viewed as the most compelling avenue to test for hiring discrimination. However, these studies suffer from one fundamental methodological problem, as formulated by Heckman and Siegelman (The Urban Institute audit studies: Their methods and findings. In M. Fix,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011314039
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Do They Find You on Facebook? Facebook Profile Picture and Hiring Chances
Baert, Stijn - 2015
We investigate whether the publicly available information on Facebook about job applicants affects employers' hiring decisions. To this end, we conduct a field experiment in which fictitious job applications are sent to real job openings in Belgium. The only characteristic in which these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420759
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The impact of military work experience on later hiring chances in the civilian labour market: Evidence from a field experiment
Baert, Stijn; Balcaen, Pieter - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 7 (2013) 2013-37, pp. 1-17
This study directly assesses the impact of military work experience compared with civilian work experience in similar jobs on the subsequent chances of being hired in the civilian labour market. It does so through a field experiment in the Belgian labour market. A statistical examination of our...
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Career Lesbians: Getting Hired for Not Having Kids?
Baert, Stijn - 2013
Using a field experiment, we investigate whether discrimination based on women's sexual orientation differs by age and family constraints. We find weakly significant evidence of discrimination against young heterosexual women. This effect is driven by age (and fertility) rather than by...
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