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The labor market consequences of gender differences in job search

Eriksson, Stefan; Lagerström, Jonas - 2008

This paper studies gender differences in labor market outcomes using data from an Internetbased CV database. The women in the database get fewer firm contacts than men, and we show that this is partly explained by differences in education, experience and other skills, is not explained by...

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Detecting discrimination in the hiring process: Evidence from an Internet-based search channel

Eriksson, Stefan; Lagerström, Jonas - 2007

discrimination, such as the searchers' ethnicity, gender, age and employment status, affect the number of contacts they receive from … nobserved heterogeneity better than most existing studies of discrimination. We find that, even when we control for other …

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The effect of age and gender on labor demand - evidence from a field experiment

Carlsson, Magnus; Eriksson, Stefan - 2017

gender differences in either labor demand (i.e. discrimination) or labor supply. In this study, we investigate the importance … decline is steeper for women than for men. These results indicate that age discrimination is a widespread phenomenon affecting … discrimination against women on average, but the gender effect is heterogeneous across occupations and firms. Women have a higher …

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Detecting discrimination in the hiring process: Evidence from an internet-based search channel

Eriksson, Stefan; Lagerström, Jonas - 2007

discrimination, such as the searchers’ ethnicity, gender, age and employment status, affect the number of contacts they receive from … unobserved heterogeneity better than most existing studies of discrimination. We find that, even when we control for all other …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317945

Competition between employed and unemployed job applicants: Swedish evidence

Eriksson, Stefan; Lagerström, Jonas - 2004

We use the Swedish Job Applicant Database to empirically investigate whether being unemployed per se reduces the probability to get contacted by a firm. This database contains personal characteristics and preferences over the type of job the applicant wants to find. The data is submitted both by...

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Imperfect information, wage formation, and the employability of the unemployed

Eriksson, Stefan - 2002

the paper it is shown that discrimination based on employment status is an equilibrium hiring strategy even when the firm …

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What is the right profile for getting a job? A stated choice experiment of the recruitment process

Eriksson, Stefan; Johansson, Per; Langenskiöld, Sophie - 2012

, but does not affect the degree of discrimination. Also, there are only small differences in the degree of discrimination … between different types of recruiters and firms. Overall, our results suggest that the discrimination, at least partially …, should reflect statistical discrimination. …

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What is the right profile for getting a job? A stated choice experiment of the recruitment process

Eriksson, Stefan; Johansson, Per; Langenskiöld, Sophie - 2012

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Discrimination in the rental market for apartments

Carlsson, Magnus; Eriksson, Stefan - In: Journal of housing economics 23 (2014), pp. 41-54

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Age discrimination in hiring decisions : evidence from a field experiment in the labor market

Carlsson, Magnus; Eriksson, Stefan - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 59 (2019), pp. 173-183

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