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Delegation in Hiring: Evidence from a Two-Sided Audit

Cowgill, Bo; Perkowski, Patryk - 2024

Firms increasingly delegate job screening to third-party recruiters, who must not only satisfy employers' demand for different types of candidates, but also manage yield by anticipating candidates' likelihood of accepting offers. We study how recruiters balance these objectives in a novel,...

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Soft Skills, Competition, and Hiring Discrimination

Valencia, Christian; Janzen, Sarah; Ghorpade, Yashodhan; … - 2024

We conduct a correspondence study to assess demand for soft skills in the context of hiring discrimination in Malaysia …. We find no evidence of gender-based discrimination, including in STEM occupations. However, in line with previous studies … in the same context, we find evidence of ethnic discrimination. We then test the relevance of two soft skills: leadership …

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Discrimination in the General Population

Angerer, Silvia; Brosch, Hanna; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela - 2024

We present representative evidence of discrimination against migrants through an incentivized choice experiment with … over 2,000 participants. Decision makers allocate a fixed endowment between two receivers. To measure discrimination, we … discrimination against migrants by the general population is both widespread and substantial. Our causal moderation analysis shows …

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Measuring racial bias in employment services in Colombia

Duryea, Suzanne; Millán-Quijano, Jaime; Morrison, Judith; … - 2024

In this paper, we document de facto, implicit, and explicit racial biases within the public employment service in Colombia. By combining administrative data about job seekers and job openings with direct surveys to job counselors, including a Race Implicit Association Test, we compute different...

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