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We study urban, private sector Chinese employers' preferences between workers with and without a local permanent residence permit (hukou) using callback information from an Internet job board. We find that these employers prefer migrant workers to locals who are identically matched to the job's...
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We analyse the effect of workforce composition by birthplace in Austrian firms on workers' wages. In our model, each worker's productivity may depend on whether the co-workers are of the same or of a different birthplace and wages depend therefore both on the relative size of workers' groups as...
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microeconomic data, this article investigates firms' characteristics and their recruitment behaviour towards workers aged 50 years …
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This paper examines the recruitment process of firms. We test whether firms search sequentially or non …. We distinguish between different types of recruitment methods. We find that the sequential hiring is rejected for a … applications by job seekers. Informal recruitment methods tend to imply sequential search. …
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We use laboratory experiments to investigate how employers develop social structures for sharing information about the trustworthiness of job candidates, when worker opportunism is possible. The experimental data show that substantial information sharing emerges. Two types of information...
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Up to now, there has been little research on the impact of e-recruitment on the recruitment process as a whole. The … present study fills part of this gap by investigating the effect of e-recruitment on the design of the recruitment process … that e-recruitment transforms the traditional recruitment process into a time- and space-independent, collaborative hiring …
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more likely to lower educational standards when an informal, more informative recruitment channel is used, so we conclude …
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In the extensive job search literature, studies assume either sequential or non-sequential search. Which assumption is more reasonable? This paper introduces a novel method to test the hypothesis that firms search sequentially based on the relationship between the number of (rejected) job...
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evaluation of available studies on recruitment problems and low-skill jobs and case studies of recruitment into low-skill jobs in …, which would suggest that low-skill work is in a state of flux. Firms adopt a range of different recruitment strategies in …
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