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Numerous empirical studies find a substantial extent of discrimination in hiring decisions. Anonymous job applications …
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This paper contributes to the existing literature on ethnic discrimination of immigrants in hiring by addressing the …
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recruited for jobs at higher hierarchical levels. Second, a larger fraction of jobs below the focal level of hiring within the … firm's decision to hire a woman. The model is based on two key assumptions. First, women have a higher probability of …
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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 Mongolian,...
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hiring process, they will rely more on education when less is otherwise known about applicants. We find that employers are … more likely to lower educational standards when an informal, more informative recruitment channel is used, so we conclude … that education is used as a signal in the hiring process. …
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In the extensive job search literature, studies assume either sequential or non-sequential search. Which assumption is more reasonable? This paper introduces a novel method to test the hypothesis that firms search sequentially based on the relationship between the number of (rejected) job...
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for men and women to get part-time jobs. To assess this question, I first analyze the hiring decisions of recruiters who …
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' recruitment practices, shows that more intensive recruitment leads to matches of better quality that pay higher wages, last longer …
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We test the basic assumption underlying the job competition and crowding out hypothesis: that employers always prefer higher educated to lower educated individuals. To this end, we conduct a randomised field experiment in which duos of fictitious applications by bachelor and master graduates are...
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' recruitment practices, shows that more intensive recruitment leads to matches of better quality that pay higher wages, last longer …
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