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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...
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Like What You Like or Like What Others Like? Conformity and Peer Effects on Facebook
Egebark, Johan; Ekström, Mathias - 2011
Users of the social networking service Facebook have the possibility to post status updates for their friends to read. In turn, friends may react to these short messages by writing comments or by pressing a Like button to show their appreciation. Making use of five Swedish accounts, we set up a...
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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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Search Costs and the Determinants of Job Search
Beam, Emily A. - 2020
high degree of uncertainty about their likelihood of job-finding to apply with recruitment agencies. These results …
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Social Media and Employment – Students' vs. Employers' Perspective
Mabić, Mirela; Gašpar, Dražena; Lesko Bošnjak, Lidija - 2020
recruitment and selection of employees. The paper presents the results of empirical research conducted among the students of the … recruitment and selection of new employees. The aim of the research is to find if there are similarities or/and differences in … standpoints of students and employers concerning the use of social media in job finding and recruitment. The results show that …
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Social Influence Bias in Online Ratings: A Field Experiment
Cicognani, Simona; Figini, Paolo; Magnani, Marco - 2016
The aim of this paper is to study the empirical phenomenon of rating bubbles, i.e. clustering on extremely positive values in e-commerce platforms and rating web sites. By means of a field experiment that exogenously manipulates prior ratings for a hotel in an important Italian tourism...
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Transparent app design reduces excessive usage time and increases willingness to pay compared to common behavioral design - A framed field experiment
Timko, Christina; Adena, Maja - 2023
Smartphone app designers often use behavioral design to influence users, increase sales, and boost advertising revenue. Behavioral design relies on elements ranging from app appearance to black-box algorithms and personalization. It commonly exploits behavioral biases, such as the lack of...
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Do employers discriminate less if vacancies are difficult to fill? Evidence from a field experiment
Baert, Stijn; Cockx, Bart; Gheyle, Niels; Vandamme, Cora - 2013
We empirically test the relationship between hiring discrimination and labour market tightness at the level of the occupation. To this end, we conduct a correspondence test in the youth labour market. In line with theoretical expectations, we find that, compared to natives, candidates with 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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Perception of innovation in Spain
Gijón, Covadonga; Albarrán Lozano, Irene; Molina, … - 2021
The present paper analyses the perception of innovation of individuals in Spain and the factors associated with it. Data from 2015 and 2018 about individuals from the Spanish surveys are used. The data include several measures of innovation perception, gender, age, educational level, and other...
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