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Do male bosses underestimate their female subordintates' skills? : A comparison of employees' and line managers' perceptions of job skills
Green, Francis (contributor); James, Donna (contributor);  … - 2001 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Employees and their line managers may have different perceptions of the skills used in jobs. We carried out a survey aimed at explaining such differences, in respect of verbal, physical, problem-solving and planning skills, the qualifications required to get the job, and indicators of the...
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Skills, signals, and employability : an experimental investigation
Piopiunik, Marc; Schwerdt, Guido; Simon, Lisa; … - 2018
As skills of labor-market entrants are usually not directly observed by employers, individuals acquire skill signals. To study which signals are valued by employers, we simultaneously and independently randomize a broad range of skill signals on pairs of resumes of fictitious applicants among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011789115
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Skills, signals, and employability : an experimental investigation
Piopiunik, Marc; Schwerdt, Guido; Simon, Lisa; … - 2018
As skills of labor-market entrants are usually not directly observed by employers, individuals acquire skill signals. To study which signals are valued by employers, we simultaneously and independently randomize a broad range of skill signals on pairs of resumes of fictitious applicants among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011795128
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Skills, signals, and employability : an experimental investigation
Piopiunik, Marc; Schwerdt, Guido; Simon, Lisa; … - 2018
As skills of labor-market entrants are usually not directly observed by employers, individuals acquire skill signals. To study which signals are valued by employers, we simultaneously and independently randomize a broad range of skill signals on pairs of resumes of fictitious applicants among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011895832
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To work or to study? : postmigration educational investments of adult refugees in Germany - evidence from a choice experiment
Damelang, Andreas; Kosyakova, Yuliya - 2020
In this article, we analyze individual factors and situational conditions under which immigrants are more or less likely to invest in host country-specific human capital. Theoretically, we root our expectations in a strand of the immigrant human capital investment model combined with a basic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012306699
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Forced Federalism : States as Laboratories of Immigration Reform
Cunningham-Parmeter, Keith - 2016
This Article questions the experimental value of state immigration laws. Analyzing the Supreme Court’s major decisions … in this area, including Chamber of Commerce v. Whiting, the Article explains why state immigration laws fail to satisfy … problems. Unfortunately, state immigration laws do not meet these criteria because states operate in a system of “forced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014173984
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New evidence on international transferability of human capital
Gibbons, Eric M.; Mukhopadhyay, Sankar - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 11 (2020) 1/9, pp. 1-39
This article sheds new light on the portability of human capital. We estimate the returns to source country experiences, viz., general, occupation-specific, and task-specific experiences, using data from the New Immigrant Survey (NIS), conducted in 2003. While the "returns to general experience"...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012303199
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Skills, Signals, and Employability : An Experimental Investigation
Piopiunik, Marc - 2018
As skills of labor-market entrants are usually not directly observed by employers, individuals acquire skill signals. To study which signals are valued by employers, we simultaneously and independently randomize a broad range of skill signals on pairs of resumes of fictitious applicants among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012924449
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Skills, Signals, and Employability : An Experimental Investigation
Piopiunik, Marc - 2018
As skills of labor-market entrants are usually not directly observed by employers, individuals acquire skill signals. To study which signals are valued by employers, we simultaneously and independently randomize a broad range of skill signals on pairs of resumes of fictitious applicants among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012929077
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Promotion Rules and Skill Acquisition : An Experimental Study
Oosterbeek, Hessel; Sloof, Randolph; Sonnemans, Joep - 2000
than game theory predicts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014181277