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Does College Location Affect the Location Choice of New College Graduates? Evidence from China

Huang, Mian - 2019

Based on a representative survey of new college graduates in China, we examine the impact of college location on their … location choice upon graduation. We use a discrete choice model and the BLP method to solve the endogeneity problem of housing … cost and to estimate the unobservable location features. Furthermore, we allow for different distributions of city …

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Horizontal Mismatch in the Labour Market of Graduates : The Role of Signalling

Domadenik, Polona - 2013

We follow Brodaty et al. (2008) and develop a model within the signalling literature where an employer decides whether … signalling effect of individual and institutional quality of study on individual horizontal match quality.First, based on a …

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Can Contracts Signal Social Norms? Experimental Evidence

Danilov, Anasatsia - 2013

We investigate whether incentive schemes signal social norms and thus affect behavior beyond their direct economic consequences. A principal-agent experiment is studied in which prior to contract choice principals are informed about past actions of other agents and thus have more information...

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Charitable Giving as a Signal of Trustworthiness : Disentangling the Signaling Benefits of Altruistic Acts

Fehrler, Sebastian - 2013

corroborate that the signaling benefits of altruistic acts that accrue in social exchange can ease the conditions for the …

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Charity as a Signal of Trustworthiness

Fehrler, Sebastian - 2010

Being perceived as trustworthy comes with substantial economic benefits in many situations. Making other people think you are a trustworthy person may, therefore, be an important motive for charity and other forms of prosocial behavior, provided these activities work as signals of...

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What Does a Job Candidate's Age Signal to Employers?

Van Borm, Hannah - 2020

Research has shown that hiring discrimination is a barrier for older job candidates in many OECD countries. However, little research has delved into why older job candidates are discriminated against. Therefore, we have conducted an online scenario experiment involving recruiters to empirically...

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What Does Someone's Gender Identity Signal to Employers?

Van Borm, Hannah - 2020

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to explore the mechanisms underlying hiring discrimination against transgender men.Design/methodology/approach - The authors conduct a scenario experiment with final-year business students in which fictitious hiring decisions are made about transgender or...

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Marriage Market Signals and Homeownership for the Never Married

Mundra, Kusum - 2018

There is a growing trend of buying homes among the single population in the U.S. This trend has been referred to as "Going Solo" and is particularly evident among women who are the focus of our study. In this paper we investigate the hypothesis that homeownership probabilities can be affected by...

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What Do Student Jobs on Graduate Cvs Signal to Employers?

Van Belle, Eva - 2019

outcomes, relying on signalling theory to explain the observed effects. In the current study, we go beyond measuring the effect …

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Intentions for Doing Good Matter for Doing Well : The (Negative) Signaling Value of Prosocial Incentives

Cassar, Lea - 2017

incentives by focusing on their signaling value to the agent about the principal's type …

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