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Do Employers Discriminate Less If Vacancies are Difficult to Fill? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Baert, Stijn - 2013

We empirically test the relationship between hiring discrimination and labour market tightness at the level of the occupation. To this end, we conduct a correspondence test in the youth labour market. In line with theoretical expectations, we find that, compared to natives, candidates with a...

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Wage Subsidies and Hiring Chances for the Disabled : Some Causal Evidence

Baert, Stijn - 2014

labour market. To identify causal effects, we conduct a large-scale field experiment in Belgium. Our results show that the …

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Blame the Parents? How Financial Incentives Affect Labor Supply and Job Quality for Young Adults

Fradkin, Andrey - 2015

Young adults entering the labor force typically have little access to unemployment insurance or other formal insurance mechanisms. Instead, they rely on family insurance in the form of parental support to smooth consumption. We study the labor market response of Belgian young adults to decreases...

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Voice at Work

Harju, Jarkko; Jäger, Simon; Schoefer, Benjamin - 2021

We estimate the effects of worker voice on job quality and separations. We leverage the 1991 introduction of worker representation on boards of Finnish firms with at least 150 employees. In contrast to exit-voice theory, our difference-in-differences design reveals no effects on voluntary job...

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Police and Crime : Evidence from Dictated Delays in Centralized Police Hiring

Buonanno, Paolo - 2012

This paper exploits dictated delays in local police hiring by a centralized national authority to break the simultaneity between police and crime. In Italy police officers can only be hired through lengthy national public contests which the Parliament, the President, and the Court of Auditors...

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The Market for CEOS : Building Legacy and Feeling Empowered Matter

Dupuy, Arnaud; Kennes, John R.; Lyng, Ran - 2022

We develop a two-sided multidimensional matching model of the market for CEOs that allows for both pecuniary and non-pecuniary (amenity) compensation. The model is estimated by maximum likelihood estimation using matched CEO-firm data from Denmark. We show that CEOs have preferences for building...

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Manager Ethnicity and Employment Segregation

Giuliano, Laura M. - 2011

effect of manager ethnicity on the ethnic composition of employment at the firm's 73 stores. We estimate separate models with … employees are hired under Hispanic and non-Hispanic, white managers, and then examine the effects of manager-employee ethnic … differences on separations and on transfers between stores. We find significant effects of manager ethnicity on hiring patterns in …

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Paying More to Hire the Best? Foreign Firms, Wages and Worker Mobility

Martins, Pedro S. - 2021

In the context of the debate on the labour-market consequences of globalisation, we examine worker mobility in order to identify the wage differences between foreign and domestic firms. Using matched employer-employee panel data for Portugal, we consider virtually all spells of interfirm...

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Gift Exchange in the Workplace : Money or Attention?

Dur, Robert A. J. - 2021

We develop a model of manager-employee relationships where employees care more for their manager when they are more … convinced that their manager cares for them. Managers can signal their altruistic feelings towards their employees in two ways … than egoistic managers do. In such equilibria, a low wage signals to employees that the manager has something else to offer …

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Owners, External Managers, and Industrial Relations in German Establishments

Kölling, Arnd - 2019

Using data from the representative IAB Establishment Panel in Germany and estimating a panel probit model with fixed effects, this paper finds a negative relationship between the existence of owner-management in an establishment and the probabilities of having a works council or a collective...

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