Uses conjoint analysis to investigate the relative importance of the country of origin of a product to consumers in the United States, Canada, Germany and The Netherlands. It was found that the country of origin of a product was one of the two or three most important attributes in preference...

While it is intuitively plausible that using contacts in a job search benefits a job-seeker, studies of job-seekers are plagued by theoretical disagreement and inconclusive empirical evidence. In particular, the evidence from between-individual studies — studies that compare outcomes for...