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Student internships and employment opportunities after graduation : a field experiment
Baert, Stijn; Neyt, Brecht; Siedler, Thomas; Tobback, Ilse - 2019
Internships during tertiary education have become substantially more common over the past decades in many …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011985978
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A signal of diligence? : student work experience and later employment chances
Baert, Stijn; Rotsaert, Olivier; Verhaest, Dieter; … - 2015
experience enhances initial recruitment decisions. For a number of candidate subgroups (by education level and occupation type …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011295597
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What does someone's gender identity signal to employers?
Borm, Hannah Van; Dhoop, Marlot; Acker, Allien Van; … - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012182567
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What does someone's gender identity signal to employers?
Borm, Hannah Van; Dhoop, Marlot; Acker, Allien Van; … - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012171459
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Education level and mating success : undercover on Tinder
Neyt, Brecht; Vandebulcke, Sarah; Baert, Stijn - 2018
field of evolutionary psychology, our results indicate a heterogeneous effect of education level by gender: while females …In this study, we examine the impact of an individual's education level on her/his mating success by means of a field … for educational assortative mating, i.e. preferring a partner with a similar education level, on mobile dating apps such …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011947721
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Unemployment or overeducation : which is a worse signal to employers?
Baert, Stijn; Verhaest, Dieter - 2014
This study aims at estimating the stigma effect of unemployment and overeducation within one framework. To this end, we conduct a field experiment in the Belgian labour market. We send out trios of fictitious male job applications to real vacancies. These applications differ only by the labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010380878
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A signal of (train)ability? : grade repetition and hiring chances
Baert, Stijn; Picchio, Matteo - 2020
This article contributes to the nascent literature on the effect of grade retention in school on later labour market success. A field experiment is conducted to rule out the endogeneity of both outcomes. More concretely, various treatments of grade retention are randomly assigned to fictitious...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012252726
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A signal of (train)ability? : grade repetition and hiring chances
Baert, Stijn; Picchio, Matteo - 2020
This article contributes to the nascent literature on the effect of grade retention in school on later labour market success. A field experiment is conducted to rule out the endogeneity of both outcomes. More concretely, various treatments of grade retention are randomly assigned to fictitious...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012244325
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Student internships and employment opportunities after graduation : a field experiment
Baert, Stijn; Neyt, Brecht; Siedler, Thomas; Toback, Ilse; … - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012131222
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The impact of internship experience during secondary education on schooling and labour market outcomes
Neyt, Brecht; Verhaest, Dieter; Baert, Stijn - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012131805