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As skills of labor-market entrants are usually not directly observed by employers, individuals acquire skill signals. To study which signals are valued by employers, we simultaneously and independently randomize a broad range of skill signals on pairs of resumes of fictitious applicants among...
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literature; and a recruitment experiment that varied information provided in a typical e-mail recruitment procedure for lab … participants. In the recruitment experiment, students were randomly assigned to four conditions that highlighted altruistic motives … along risk preferences, time preferences, and overconfidence. Although the recruitment conditions affect participation rates …
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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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We investigate whether the publicly available information on Facebook about job applicants affects employers' hiring … Facebook profile picture appearance on hiring chances when candidates are highly educated and when recruiters are female. …
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We investigate the effects of group identity on hiring decisions with adverse selection problems. We run a laboratory …
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Research has shown that hiring discrimination is a barrier for older job candidates in many OECD countries. However …
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affects the ways that firms, when hiring, interpret spells of unemployment in candidates' work histories. It is also the first … to explore the effects of both marital status and unemployment spells in hiring in the context of China's dynamic …
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We study whether there are improvements in worker-firm matching when employers and applicants can credibly signal their interest in a match. Using a detailed résumé dataset of more than 400 applicants from one university over five years, we analyze a matching process in which firms fill some...
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What can employers learn from personality tests when job applicants have incentives to misrepresent themselves? Using a within-subject, laboratory experiment, we compare personality measures with and without incentives for misrepresentation. Incentivized personality measures are weakly to...
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Over the last decades, researchers have found compelling evidence of hiring discrimination toward ethnic minorities … experience hiring penalties, the academic world has not yet found a satisfying answer. With this study, we aim to close this gap … applicants are rated on 22 statements related to the dominant explanations for ethnic discrimination in hiring that the models of …
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