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Chinese employers practice extensive personal screening of job applicants. This study identifies four manifestations of this practice by motive – statistical, customer and employer taste-based, and regulatory – and evaluates their prevalence, economic determinants and implications for firms'...
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Recruitment at Chinese firms involves extensive screening of job applicants’ personal backgrounds in order to hire the most desirable workers. The exact rationale and nature of this practice is unclear. This study evaluates the market and regulatory conditions in which employers make their...
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This study uses China's Inter-Census Survey 2005 to analyse the extent migration behaviour among 14 large ethnic minority groups and the Han majority. Results show that the probability to migrate to all types of destinations varies by province of origin, decreases by age, and in most cases, by...
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across four occupations in 6 Chinese cities. We find sizable differences in the interview callback rates of attractive and … counterparts to obtain the same number of interview callbacks. Women are preferred to men in three of our four occupations. Women … on average need to put in only 91% as many applications as men to obtain the same number of interview callbacks. …
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1: The changing face of talent -- Unprecedented advantages -- Pitfalls and trip wires -- 2: The markets -- Brazil -- Russia -- India -- China -- United Arab Emirates -- 3: Action agenda -- Becoming a talent magnet -- Claiming and sustaining female ambition -- Dealing with pulls and pushes --...
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