We document how explicit employer requests for applicants of a particular gender enter the recruitment process on a …

. On the basis of an empirical investigation into the recruitment practices of more than 300 professional service firms the … apparent that first and foremost the quality of employee relations has a high impact on various measures of recruitment success …

External recruiting at least weakly improves the quality of the pool of applicants, but the incentive implications are … less clear. Using a contest model, this paper investigates the pure incentive effects of external recruiting. Our results … discouragement of low ability workers, the firm will benefit from external recruiting. If, however, the discouragement effect …