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A Delegation Approach to Regulating Hiring Discrimination
Martellini, Paolo; Menzio, Guido - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We approach the design of anti-discriminatory labor market regulation as a delegation problem. A private firm (the … their match with firm. A benevolent and unbiased labor market authority (the principal) enacts a hiring regulation (a direct …-revelation mechanism without transfers) in order to reduce the impact of the firm's bias on its hiring behavior. The hiring regulation is …
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Is there a role for higher education institutions in improving the quality of first employment?
McGuinness, Séamus; Whelan, Adele; Bergin, Adele - 2016
This paper examines the potential role of higher education institutions in reducing labour market mismatch amongst new graduates. The research suggests that increasing the practical aspects of degree programmes, irrespective of the field of study, will reduce the incidence of initial mismatch....
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Skills and the graduate recruitment process : evidence from two discrete choice experiments
Humburg, Martin; Velden, Rolf van der - 2014
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Essays on military labour supply in the era of voluntary recruitment
Bäckström, Peter - 2020
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The macroeconomic effects of labor and product market reforms in Morocco
Sarr, Babacar; Benlamine, Mokhtar; Munkacsi, Zsuzsa - 2019
This paper studies the macroeconomic effects and sequencing of (LMRs) and product (PMRs) market reforms in Morocco. It finds that introducing LMRs and PMRs simultaneously would add about 2.5 percentage points (pp) of GDP growth and reduce unemployment by about 2.2 pp after five years. If...
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Training and poaching
Hoskins, Martin - 1996
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Transforming naturally occurring text data into economic statistics : the case of online job vacancy postings
Turrell, Arthur; Speigner, Bradley J.; Djumalieva, Jyldyz; … - 2019
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Understanding employers' graduate recruitment and selection practices : main report
2015
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Wage regulation and the quality of police officer recruits
Crawford, Rowena; Disney, Richard - 2015
The paper analyses the impact of centrally regulated pay on the quality of applicants to be police officers in England and Wales using a unique dataset of individual test scores from the national assessment that is required of all applicants. It provides empirical evidence of two distinct...
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The post crisis growth in the self-employed : volunteers or reluctant recruits?
Henley, Andrew - 2015
In the UK by late 2014 there were almost 0.75m more self-employed than at the start of the financial crisis in early 2008. This represents over 75% of jobs growth in the UK over the same period. This experience has attracted commentary from independent policy analysts and others, focusing on...
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