large-scale data from high-stakes admission and hiring processes, where candidates are quasi-randomly assigned to evaluators …' votes of up to 40% and distorting final admission and hiring decisions. Our findings are in line with a contrast effect …

employers is very correlated, but that employers’ hiring behavior is more idiosyncratic. Workers discriminate using the race and …

We study the gendered impact of recommendations at different stages of the hiring process. First, using a large sample … - analyzing both recommendation and recruitment stages. These confirm that recommendations are gendered and impact recruitment. We … strategic behavior based on erroneous beliefs explain referees' choices. Finally, we decompose gender recruitment gaps into two …

three key questions related to hiring via referrals when employees have private information about their productivity. First … the existence of social ties and hiring through employee referrals indeed alleviate adverse selection relative to when … social ties do not exist? Third, does the existence of social ties have spill-over effects on wages and hiring in competitive …

Using the German IAB Job Vacancy Survey, we look into the black box of recruiting intensity and hiring practices from … the employers' perspective. Our paper evaluates three important channels for hiring - namely vacancy posting, the … selectivity of hiring (labor selection), and the number of search channels - through the lens of an undirected search model …

1 and 2. They choose whether the hiring decision between themselves and another worker is made either by a participant … delegate their hiring decisions to the algorithm. In the baseline treatments, we observe that workers choose the manager more … often than the algorithm, and managers also prefer to make the hiring decisions themselves rather than delegate them to the …

investigates the relationship between labour costs and the decision to hire a first employee and become an employer. Leveraging a …