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Does marital status affect how firms interpret job applicants' un/employment histories?
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Wang, Sili - 2018
affects the ways that firms, when hiring, interpret spells of unemployment in candidates' work histories. It is also the first … to explore the effects of both marital status and unemployment spells in hiring in the context of China's dynamic …This field experiment explores whether single and married female job candidates' un/employment histories differentially …
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Ethnic discrimination in China's internet job board labor market
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-24
We conduct a large-scale field experiment to investigate how Chinese firms respond to Internet job board applications from ethnic minority and Han applicants. We signal ethnicity by using names that are typically Han Chinese and distinctively Mongolian, Tibetan, and Uighur. We find significant...
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Formalized employee search and labor demand
Hensel, Lukas; Tekleselassie, Tsegay Gebrekidan; Witte, Marc - 2021
-based search. This change in skill requirements does not increase vacancy posting or hiring, suggesting substitutability between …
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The direct and indirect effects of online job search advice
Altmann, Steffen; Glenny, Anita M.; Mahlstedt, Robert; … - 2022
We study how online job search advice affects the job search strategies and labor market outcomes of unemployed workers. In a large-scale field experiment, we provide job seekers with vacancy information and occupational recommendations through an online dashboard. A clustered randomization...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013471980
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Systemic discrimination among large U.S. employers
Kline, Patrick; Rose, Evan K.; Walters, Christopher R. - 2021
We study the results of a massive nationwide correspondence experiment sending more than 83,000 fictitious applications with randomized characteristics to geographically dispersed jobs posted by 108 of the largest U.S. employers. Distinctively Black names reduce the probability of employer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012603849
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Systemic Discrimination Among Large U.S. Employers
Kline, Patrick; Rose, Evan K.; Walters, Christopher - 2021
We study the results of a massive nationwide correspondence experiment sending more than 83,000 fictitious applications with randomized characteristics to geographically dispersed jobs posted by 108 of the largest U.S. employers. Distinctively Black names reduce the probability of employer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013216004
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Systemic Discrimination Among Large U.S. Employers
Kline, Patrick; Rose, Evan; Walters, Christopher - 2021
We study the results of a massive nationwide correspondence experiment sending more than 83,000 fictitious applications with randomized characteristics to geographically dispersed jobs posted by 108 of the largest U.S. employers. Distinctively Black names reduce the probability of employer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013217012
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Ethnic discrimination in Germany's labour market : a field experiment
Kaas, Leo; Manger, Christian - 2010
discrimination ; hiring discrimination ; correspondence test …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003932933
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Do employers discriminate by gender? : a field experiment in female-dominated occupations
Booth, Alison L.; Leigh, Andrew - 2010
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. -- Discrimination ; field experiments ; employment ; gender
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003934119
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Will Ugly Betty Ever Find a Job in Italy?
Busetta, Giovanni - 2013
This paper evaluates the impact of beauty on employability, stressing the first stage of the hiring process. In …
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