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Fading shooting stars : the relative age effect, misallocation of talent, and returns to training in German elite youth soccer

Tohoff, Lukas; Mechtel, Mario - 2022

This paper analyses the Relative Age Effect (RAE) in German elite youth soccer academies. We examine the efficiency of talent selection and the returns to training. Our results indicate a strong effect of players' birth dates on their probability of getting selected - and, thus, a waste of...

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Hiring New Ideas : International Migration and Firm Innovation in New Zealand

McLeod, Keith; Fabling, Richard; Maré, David C. - 2014

Poor productivity performance has been identified as a significant issue for New Zealand, and innovation is seen as a … key mechanism for improving productivity growth. Understanding the drivers of firm innovation therefore represents an … important step towards improving New Zealand’s economic performance. In this paper, we combine firm-level innovation data with …

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Recruit to Reject? Harvard and African American Applicants

Arcidiacono, Peter - 2019

Over the past 20 years, elite colleges in the US have seen dramatic increases in applications. We provide context for part of this trend using detailed data on Harvard University that was unsealed as part of the SFFA v. Harvard lawsuit. We show that Harvard encourages applications from many...

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Teachers' preferences for proximity and the implications for staffing schools : evidence from Peru

Bertoni, Eleonora; Elacqua, Gregory; Hincapié, Diana; … - 2019

This paper explores rank-ordered teacher candidates' preferences for public schools in Peru by analyzing the 2015 teacher hiring process. Our analysis shows that, in seeking permanent positions in public schools, candidates appear to search closer to where they attended their Teacher Education...

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Recruit to reject? : Harvard and African American applicants

Arcidiacono, Peter; Kinsler, Josh; Ransom, Tyler - 2019

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I Want You! Expanding College Access Through Targeted Recruiting Efforts

Miller, Brian - 2020

To complement the existing literature on expanding access to high-quality college education, we investigate the understudied topic of university outreach. Using a field experiment at West Point, we estimate the effectiveness of four university admissions outreach efforts (admissions office phone...

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The search for skills : knowledge stars and innovation in the hiring process

Hamilton, R. H.; Davison, H. Kristl - In: Business horizons 61 (2018) 3, pp. 409-419

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Cinderella revisited : a historical perspective to graduate work in retailing

Leng, Ho Keat - In: Acta Universitatis Danubius / Oeconomica 9 (2013) 1, pp. 181-194

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Enforcement of regulation, informal labor and firm performance

Almeida, Rita K.; Carneiro, Pedro - 2005

This paper investigates how enforcement of labor regulation affects the firm's use of informal employment and its impact on firm performance. Using firm level data on informal employment and firm performance, and administrative data on enforcement of regulation at the city level, we show that in...

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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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