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We conduct a résumé audit to estimate the impact of unemployment and underemployment on the employment prospects facing … recent college graduates. We find no evidence that employers use current or past unemployment spells, regardless of their …
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This study explores how both gender and facial attractiveness affect job candidates' chances of obtaining interviews in China's dynamic Internet job board labor market. It examines how discrimination based on these attributes varies over occupation, location, and firms' ownership type and size....
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The desired professional insertion (placement) after training is under the influence of personal and exogenous variables. In the present paper we identify the constraints and devices that, in an interactive way, can shape and affect the professional insertion. This paper is a result of a...
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unemployment has a weak positive effect on the probability of filling a vacancy, while the number of vacancies in the local labor …
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This paper examines the structure of the labour market and unemployment in Sudan. One advantage of our analysis is that … unemployment based on Sudan Central Bureau of Statistics 2010 the Fifth Sudan Population and Housing Census 2008. We explain …, participation rates, economic activities, low skill level and high unemployment rate defined by gender and mode of living in Sudan …
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This paper applies the semi-parametric Cox regression approach to model unemployment duration in five Central and … unemployment spell lasts, the less pronounced the differences between various age groups are. …
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We use experimental data from a résumé-audit study to estimate the impact of particular college majors and internship experience on employment opportunities. Our experimental design relies on the randomization of résumé characteristics to identify the causal effects of these attributes on...
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Caste-based quotas in hiring have existed in the public sector in India for decades. Recently there has been debate about introducing similar quotas in private sector jobs. This paper uses an audit study to determine the extent of caste-based discrimination in the Indian private sector. On...
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We test for gender discrimination by sending fake CVs to apply for entry-level jobs. Female candidates are more likely to receive a callback, with the difference being largest in occupations that are more female-dominated.
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her/his unemployment, whereas the other candidate reveals no reason for unemployment. Overall, the hypothesis that … the recruiter, we see that revealing former depression as a reason for unemployment is rewarded by female recruiters …
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