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Employers' Search and the Efficiency of Matching

Pellizzari, Michele - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

' recruitment practices, shows that more intensive recruitment leads to matches of better quality that pay higher wages, last longer …

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Screening for Honesty

Ruffle, Bradley; Tobol, Yossi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We report the results of a field experiment on honesty conducted on 427 Israeli soldiers fulfilling their mandatory military service. Each soldier rolled a six-sided die in private and reported the outcome to the unit's cadet coordinator. For every point reported, the soldier received an...

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The Impact of Arab Spring on Hiring and Separation Rates in the Tunisian Labour Market

Haouas, Ilham; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

This paper analyses the hiring and separation rates in Tunisia before and after the Arab Spring of 2011. Several models … 2012. The data provides information about important firm characteristics such as industry sector, number of hiring and … estimated to investigate hiring, separation, hiring rate, separation rate, mobility, and net-employment. The results indicate …

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Ethnic Discrimination in China's Internet Job Board Labor Market

Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We conduct a large‐scale field experiment to investigate how Chinese firms respond to job applications from ethnic minority and Han applicants for jobs posted on a large Chinese Internet job board. We denote ethnicity by means of names that are typically Han Chinese and distinctively...

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Anonymous Job Applications in Europe

Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Numerous empirical studies find a substantial extent of discrimination in hiring decisions. Anonymous job applications …

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The Timing of Preference and Prejudice in Sequential Hiring Games

Waddell, Glen R.; Lee, Logan M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We model a hiring process in which the candidate is evaluated sequentially by two agents of the firm who each observe … characterize how one agent's private valuation of the candidate influences the other agent's hiring practices. This influence is …

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Wage Posting or Wage Bargaining? Evidence from the Employers' Side

Brenzel, Hanna; Gartner, Hermann; Schnabel, Claus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Using a representative establishment dataset, this paper is the first to analyze the incidence of wage posting and wage bargaining in the matching process from the employer's side. We show that both modes of wage determination coexist in the German labor market, with about two-thirds of hirings...

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"As Rare as a Panda": How Facial Attractiveness, Gender, and Occupation Affect Interview Callbacks at Chinese Firms

Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Lei, Lei - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This study explores how both gender and facial attractiveness affect job candidates' chances of obtaining interviews in China's dynamic Internet job board labor market. It examines how discrimination based on these attributes varies over occupation, location, and firms' ownership type and size....

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An Experimental Investigation of Age Discrimination in the English Labor Market

Riach, Peter A.; Rich, Judith - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Carefully-matched pairs of written job applications were made to test for age discrimination in hiring. A twenty …

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Fairness, Reciprocity, and Wage Rigidity

Bewley, Truman - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

This paper contains a review of empirical work related to wage rigidity, where researchers have collected their own data. The work includes field studies, economic experiments, and psychological surveys. Economists have done the field studies and experiments, and management scientists and...

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