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Employers' perceptions of online university degrees and their relationship with the recruitment and selection practices: The case of Chile
Bobek, Vito; Zych, Filip; Janković, Božidarka; … - In: Naše gospodarstvo / Our Economy 68 (2022) 3, pp. 28-49
Abstract The emergence of online university degree programs is an opportunity for Chile, struggling with low tertiary … employers in Chile perceive online and on-campus university education as equivalent. This study investigated the perceptions of … graduate. The university's reputation is a crucial factor influencing hiring decisions in Chile. The degree's relevance may be …
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Does random selection of commissioners improve the quality of selected candidates? : an investigation in the Italian academia
Checchi, Daniele; De Poli, Silvia; Rettore, Enrico - 2017
We study a reform occurred in Italy in 2008 in the formation of selection committees for qualifying as university professor. Prior to the reform members of the selection committees were elected by their peers, after the reform they have been randomly drawn. This policy was intended to increase...
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University presidential searches : an empirical examination of internal versus external hiring
Monks, James W. - In: Eastern economic journal : EEJ 48 (2022) 4, pp. 580-601
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The value of hiring through referrals
Burks, Stephen V.; Cowgill, Bo; Hoffman, Mitchell; … - 2013
Employee referrals are a very common means by which firms hire new workers. Past work suggests that workers hired via referrals often perform better than non-referred workers, but we have little understanding as to why. In this paper, we demonstrate that this is primarily because referrals allow...
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Social networks, employee selection and labor market outcomes
Hensvik, Lena; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2013
The paper studies how social job finding networks affect firms' selection of employees and the setting of entry wages. Our point of departure is the Montgomery (1991) model of employee referrals which suggests that it is optimal for firms to hire new workers through referrals from their most...
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The optimality of heterogeneous tournaments
Gürtler, Marc; Gürtler, Oliver - 2013
We investigate the effect of employee heterogeneity on the incentive to put forth effort in a market-based tournament. Employers use the tournament's outcome to estimate employees' abilities and accordingly condition their wage offers. Employees put forth effort, because by doing so they...
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Hiring as Exploration
Li, Danielle - 2020
In looking for the best workers over time, firms must balance "exploitation'' (selecting from groups with proven track records) with "exploration'' (selecting from under-represented groups to learn about quality). Yet modern hiring algorithms, based on `"supervised learning" approaches, are...
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The Value of Hiring Through Referrals
Burks, Stephen V. - 2013
Employee referrals are a very common means by which firms hire new workers. Past work suggests that workers hired via referrals often perform better than non-referred workers, but we have little understanding as to why. In this paper, we demonstrate that this is primarily because referrals allow...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013081829
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Bildungs- und beschäftigungspolitische Relevanz der Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien in der Schweiz 1980 - 2004
Morandi, Pietro - 2007
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Culture as a hiring criterion : systemic discrimination in a procedurally fair hiring process
Meurs, Dominique; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2021
Criteria used in hiring workers often do not reflect the skills required on the job. By comparing trainee performance for newly hired workers conditional on competitive civil service examination scores for hiring French public sector workers, we test whether women and men with the same civil...
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