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  1. Age discrimination, apprenticeship training and hiring
    evidence from a scenario experiment
    Author: Dalle, Axana; Wybo, Toon; Baert, Stijn; Verhaest, Dieter
    Published: August 2024
    Publisher:  IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Germany

    In many countries, age discrimination appears to be driven by negative perceptions that recruiters stereotypically hold about older candidates' technological skills, trainability, and flexibility. Based on human capital, signalling, and screening... more

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    In many countries, age discrimination appears to be driven by negative perceptions that recruiters stereotypically hold about older candidates' technological skills, trainability, and flexibility. Based on human capital, signalling, and screening theories, we hypothesise that training programmes might both compensate for and mitigate these ageist stereotypes and thereby improve these candidates' hiring chances. We test this pathway out of age discrimination by designing a scenario experiment in which professional recruiters assess the recruitability and human capital perceptions of fictitious candidates varying in age and (willingsness for) participation in apprenticeship training at older ages. Our results demonstrate that candidates indicating their (willingness for) participation in such training to obtain relevant work experience are more likely to be recruited than candidates without such experience, regardless of their age. Although apprenticeship training can compensate for age discrimination, it cannot mitigate this as the premium it yields is not higher for older workers.

     
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    Series: Discussion paper series / IZA ; no. 17225
    Subjects: hiring discrimination; older workers; labour market programmes; apprenticeships; signalling; scenario experiment
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  2. Student internships and employment opportunities after graduation
    a field experiment
    Author: Baert, Stijn; Neyt, Brecht; Siedler, Thomas; Tobback, Ilse; Verhaest, Dieter
    Published: February 2019
    Publisher:  IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Germany

    Internships during tertiary education have become substantially more common over the past decades in many industrialised countries. This study examines the impact of a voluntary intra-curricular internship experience during university studies on the... more

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    Internships during tertiary education have become substantially more common over the past decades in many industrialised countries. This study examines the impact of a voluntary intra-curricular internship experience during university studies on the probability of being invited to a job interview. To estimate a causal relationship, we conducted a randomised field experiment in which we sent 1,248 fictitious, but realistic, resumes to real job openings. We find that applicants with internship experience have, on average, a 12.6% higher probability of being invited to a job interview.

     
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    Series: Discussion paper series / IZA ; no. 12183
    Subjects: internship; hiring; human capital; signalling; field experiment
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  3. Homosexuality's signalling function in job candidate screening
    why gay is (mostly) OK
    Author: Sterkens, Philippe; Dalle, Axana; Wuyts, Joey; Pauwels, Ines; Durinck, Hellen; Baert, Stijn
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Global Labor Organization (GLO), Essen

    To explain the mixed findings on hiring discrimination against homosexual applicants, we explore the perceptual drivers behind employers' evaluations of gay men and lesbian women. Therefore, we conduct an extensive vignette experiment among 404... more

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    To explain the mixed findings on hiring discrimination against homosexual applicants, we explore the perceptual drivers behind employers' evaluations of gay men and lesbian women. Therefore, we conduct an extensive vignette experiment among 404 genuine recruiters, for which we test systematically-selected perceptions theoretically associated with homosexual job candidates in earlier studies. We find causal evidence for distinct effects of sexual identities on candidate perceptions and interview probabilities. In particular, interview probabilities are positively (negatively) associated with the perception of lesbian women (gay men) as being more (less) pleasant to work with compared to heterosexual candidates. In addition, interview chances are negatively associated with the perception of gay men and lesbian women as being more outspoken. Furthermore, our data align well with the idea of a concentrated discrimination account, whereby a minority of employers who privately hold negative attitudes towards homosexual individuals are responsible for most instances of hiring discrimination.

     
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    Series: GLO discussion paper ; no. 1090
    Subjects: homosexuality; signalling; statistical discrimination; taste-based discrimination; hiring experiment
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  4. Homosexuality's signalling function in job candidate screening: why gay is (mostly) OK
    Author: Sterkens, Philippe; Dalle, Axana; Wuyts, Joey; Pauwels, Ines; Durinck, Hellen; Baert, Stijn
    Published: May 2022
    Publisher:  IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Germany

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    To explain the mixed findings on hiring discrimination against homosexual applicants, we explore the perceptual drivers behind employers' evaluations of gay men and lesbian women. Therefore, we conduct an extensive vignette experiment among 404 genuine recruiters, for which we test systematically-selected perceptions theoretically associated with homosexual job candidates in earlier studies. We find causal evidence for distinct effects of sexual identities on candidate perceptions and interview probabilities. In particular, interview probabilities are positively (negatively) associated with the perception of lesbian women (gay men) as being more (less) pleasant to work with compared to heterosexual candidates. In addition, interview chances are negatively associated with the perception of gay men and lesbian women as being more outspoken. Furthermore, our data align well with the idea of a concentrated discrimination account, whereby a minority of employers who privately hold negative attitudes towards homosexual individuals are responsible for most instances of hiring discrimination.

     
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    Series: Discussion paper series / IZA ; no. 15285
    Subjects: homosexuality; signalling; statistical discrimination; taste-based discrimination; hiring experiment
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  5. International pecking order
    Author: Malamud, Semyon; Eren, Egemen; Zhou, Haonan
    Published: 07 April 2022
    Publisher:  Centre for Economic Policy Research, London

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    Series: Array ; DP17193
    Subjects: foreign currency debt; Corporate Debt; signalling; Exchange Rates; Pecking order
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  6. International pecking order
    Author: Eren, Egemen; Malamud, Semyon; Zhou, Haonan
    Published: [2022]
    Publisher:  Swiss Finance Institute, Geneva

    We document that corporates in emerging markets borrow more in foreign currency when the local currency provides a better hedge in downturns. We develop an international corporate finance model in which firms facing adverse selection choose the... more

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    We document that corporates in emerging markets borrow more in foreign currency when the local currency provides a better hedge in downturns. We develop an international corporate finance model in which firms facing adverse selection choose the foreign currency share of their debt. In the unique separating equilibrium, good firms optimally expose themselves to currency risk to signal their type. The nature of this equilibrium crucially depends on the co-movement between cash flows and the exchange rate. We provide extensive empirical evidence for this signalling channel using micro data for firms in multiple emerging markets and event studies of local currency depreciation episodes

     
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    Series: Research paper series / Swiss Finance Institute ; no 22, 15
    Subjects: Foreign currency debt; corporate debt; signalling; exchange rates; pecking order
    Other subjects: Array
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  7. Signaling ideology through consumption
    Author: Schneider, Florian
    Published: July 2022
    Publisher:  CESifo, Center for Economic Studies & Ifo Institute, Munich, Germany

    Firms often discourage certain categories of individuals from buying their products, seemingly at odds with typical assumptions about profit maximization. This paper provides a potential rationale for such firm behavior: Consumers seek to signal that... more

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    Firms often discourage certain categories of individuals from buying their products, seemingly at odds with typical assumptions about profit maximization. This paper provides a potential rationale for such firm behavior: Consumers seek to signal that they have "desirable" ideological values to themselves and others by avoiding products popular among people with "undesirable" values. In laboratory experiments and surveys, I provide causal evidence that consumption can be diagnostic of consumers' ideologies and that demand for a product is lower if its customer base consists of individuals whose ideological values are widely considered undesirable. These effects occur for both observable and unobservable consumption and for products that do not possess any inherent ideological or undesirable qualities.

     
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    Series: CESifo working paper ; no. 9830 (2022)
    Subjects: ideology; social image; self-image; signalling; consumption; experiments
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  8. Targeted incentives, broad impacts
    evidence from an e-commerce platform
    Author: Hui, Xiang; Liu, Meng; Chan, Tat
    Published: August 2022
    Publisher:  CESifo, Center for Economic Studies & Ifo Institute, Munich, Germany

    Digital platforms sometimes offer incentives to a subset of sellers to nudge behavior, possibly affecting the behavior of all sellers in the equilibrium. In this paper, we study a policy change on a large e-commerce platform that offers financial... more

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    Digital platforms sometimes offer incentives to a subset of sellers to nudge behavior, possibly affecting the behavior of all sellers in the equilibrium. In this paper, we study a policy change on a large e-commerce platform that offers financial incentives only to platform-certified sellers when they provide fast handling and generous return policies on their listings. We find that both targeted and non-targeted sellers become more likely to adopt the promoted behavior after the policy change. Exploiting a large number of markets on the platform, we find that in markets with a larger proportion of the targeted population-hence more affected by the policy change-non-targeted sellers are more likely to adopt the promoted behavior and experience a larger increase in sales and equilibrium prices. This finding is consistent with our key insight that a targeted incentive may increase demand for non-targeted sellers when both platform certificates and the promoted behaviors are quality signals. Our results have managerial implications for digital platforms that use targeted incentives.

     
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    Series: CESifo working paper ; no. 9894 (2022)
    Subjects: targeted incentives; quality provision; signalling; demand expansion
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  9. Disclosing the "Big C"
    what does cancer survivorship signal to employers?
    Author: Sterkens, Philippe; Sharipova, Adelina; Baert, Stijn
    Published: June 2022
    Publisher:  IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Germany

    To study hiring discrimination against cancer survivors, we conduct a vignette experiment in which American and British recruiters evaluate fictitious job candidates. Candidates differed by periods of non-employment in their career, including... more

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    To study hiring discrimination against cancer survivors, we conduct a vignette experiment in which American and British recruiters evaluate fictitious job candidates. Candidates differed by periods of non-employment in their career, including non-employment due to suffering from cancer. We study the effect of cancer experiences on the recruiters' hiring decisions, as well as its effect on underlying candidate perceptions, related to various potential forms of stigma identified in the literature. We find that employment opportunities are lower for candidates with a history of cancer, compared to candidates without such a gap. This penalty is particularly explained by perceptions that these candidates will have higher sick leave probabilities and create additional costs. However, relative to candidates with a comparable gap due to depression or personal reasons, former cancer patients are less stigmatised, with relatively favourable assessments of their emotional abilities, social abilities, motivation and positive impact on workplace culture.

     
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    Series: Discussion paper series / IZA ; no. 15349
    Subjects: hiring discrimination; cancer; depression; signalling
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  10. What do student jobs on graduate CVs signal to employers?
    Author: Van Belle, Eva; Caers, Ralf; Cuypers, Laure; Couck, Marijke de; Neyt, Brecht; Borm, Hannah Van; Baert, Stijn
    Published: June 2019
    Publisher:  IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Germany

    Due to the prevalence and important consequences of student work, the topic has seen an increased interest in the literature. However, to date the focus has been solely on measuring the effect of student employment on later labour market outcomes,... more

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    Due to the prevalence and important consequences of student work, the topic has seen an increased interest in the literature. However, to date the focus has been solely on measuring the effect of student employment on later labour market outcomes, relying on signalling theory to explain the observed effects. In the current study, we go beyond measuring the effect of student work and we examine for the first time what exactly is being signalled by student employment. We do this by means of a vignette experiment in which we ask 242 human resource professionals to evaluate a set of five fictitious profiles. Whereas all types of student work signal a better work attitude, a larger social network, a greater sense of responsibility, an increased motivation, and more maturity, only student employment in line with a job candidate's field of study is a signal of increased human capital and increased trainability.

     
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    Series: Discussion paper series / IZA ; no. 12431
    Subjects: student employment; signalling; hiring chances; vignette study
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  11. Student internships and employment opportunities after graduation
    a field experiment
    Author: Baert, Stijn; Neyt, Brecht; Siedler, Thomas; Toback, Ilse; Verhaest, Dieter
    Published: [2019]
    Publisher:  Ghent University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent

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    Series: Working paper / Faculty of Economics and Business Administration ; 974 (2019)
    Subjects: Internship; hiring; human capital; signalling; field experiment
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  12. The signal of applying for a job under a vacancy referral scheme
    Author: Van Belle, Eva; Caers, Ralf; Couck, Marijke de; Di Stasio, Valentina; Baert, Stijn
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  Global Labor Organization (GLO), Maastricht

    Persistent unemployment across OECD countries has led to increasing investments in activation programmes and, as a consequence, rigorous evaluations of the effectiveness of these programmes. The results of these evaluations have been mixed at best.... more

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    Persistent unemployment across OECD countries has led to increasing investments in activation programmes and, as a consequence, rigorous evaluations of the effectiveness of these programmes. The results of these evaluations have been mixed at best. To improve the effectiveness of the activation programmes, it is important to know why we observe these unsatisfactory results. One possible explanation that has been largely underexplored is the signal these programmes send to prospective employers. We investigate this signalling effect in the context of a job-vacancy referral system. To this end, we conduct a state-of-the-art vignette experiment in which HR professionals make hiring decisions concerning fictitious job candidates who apply either under a job-vacancy referral system or directly (without referral). By analysing the experimental data, we provide first causal evidence for a substantial adverse effect of referral on the probability of being hired. In addition, our experimental design allows us to explore whether this effect is heterogeneous by job candidate and recruiter characteristics and what exactly is signalled by the job-vacancy referral. In particular, we find that employers perceive referred candidates as being less motivated than other candidates.

     
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    Series: GLO discussion paper ; no. 173
    Subjects: signalling; activation policies; job referral; policy evaluation; unemployment
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  13. What does someone's gender identity signal to employers?
    Author: Borm, Hannah Van; Dhoop, Marlot; Acker, Allien Van; Baert, Stijn
    Published: March 2020
    Publisher:  IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Germany

    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... more

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    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 cisgender male job candidates. More importantly, these candidates are scored on statements related to theoretical reasons for hiring discrimination given in the literature. The resulting data are analysed using a bivariate analysis. Additionally, a multiple mediation model is run. Findings - Suggestive evidence is found for co-worker and customer taste-based discrimination, but not for employer taste-based discrimination. In addition, results show that transgender men are perceived as being in worse health, being more autonomous and assertive, and have a lower probability to go on parental leave, compared with cisgender men, revealing evidence for (positive and negative) statistical discrimination. Social implications - Targeted policy measures are needed given the substantial labour market discrimination against transgender individuals measured in former studies. However, to combat this discrimination effectively, one needs to understand its underlying mechanisms. This study provides the first comprehensive exploration of these mechanisms. Originality/value - This study innovates in being one of the first to explore the relative empirical importance of dominant (theoretical) explanations for hiring discrimination against transgender men. Thereby, the authors take the logical next step in the literature on labour market discrimination against transgender individuals.

     
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    Series: Discussion paper series / IZA ; no. 13031
    Subjects: transgender men; fictitious hiring decisions; theories of discrimination; signalling; scenario experiment; risk aversion
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  14. What does someone's gender identity signal to employers?
    Author: Borm, Hannah Van; Dhoop, Marlot; Acker, Allien Van; Baert, Stijn
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Global Labor Organization (GLO), Essen

    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... more

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    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 cisgender male job candidates. More importantly, these candidates are scored on statements related to theoretical reasons for hiring discrimination given in the literature. The resulting data are analysed using a bivariate analysis. Additionally, a multiple mediation model is run. Findings - Suggestive evidence is found for co-worker and customer taste-based discrimination, but not for employer taste-based discrimination. In addition, results show that transgender men are perceived as being in worse health, being more autonomous and assertive, and have a lower probability to go on parental leave, compared with cisgender men, revealing evidence for (positive and negative) statistical discrimination. Social implications - Targeted policy measures are needed given the substantial labour market discrimination against transgender individuals measured in former studies. However, to combat this discrimination effectively, one needs to understand its underlying mechanisms. This study provides the first comprehensive exploration of these mechanisms. Originality/value - This study innovates in being one of the first to explore the relative empirical importance of dominant (theoretical) explanations for hiring discrimination against transgender men. Thereby, the authors take the logical next step in the literature on labour market discrimination against transgender individuals.

     
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    Series: GLO discussion paper ; no. 484
    Subjects: Transgender men; fictitious hiring decisions; theories of discrimination; signalling; scenario experiment; risk aversion
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  15. What do student jobs on graduate CVs signal to employers?
    Author: Van Belle, Eva; Caers, Ralf; Cuypers, Laure; Couck, Marijke de; Neyt, Brecht; Borm, Hannah Van; Baert, Stijn
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Global Labor Organization (GLO), Essen

    Due to the prevalence and important consequences of student work, the topic has seen an increased interest in the literature. However, to date the focus has been solely on measuring the effect of student employment on later labour market outcomes,... more

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    Series: GLO discussion paper ; no. 356
    Subjects: Student employment; signalling; hiring chances; vignette study
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  16. Are school-provided skills useful at work?
    results of the Wiles test
    Author: Liwiński, Jacek; Pastore, Francesco
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Global Labor Organization (GLO), Maastricht

    We test for the signalling hypothesis versus human capital theory using the Wiles test (1974) in a country which has experienced a dramatic increase in the supply of skills. For this purpose, we construct a job match index based on the usefulness of... more

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    We test for the signalling hypothesis versus human capital theory using the Wiles test (1974) in a country which has experienced a dramatic increase in the supply of skills. For this purpose, we construct a job match index based on the usefulness of the school-provided skills and the relevance of the job performed to the field of study. Then we regress the first earnings of graduates on this index using OLS and Heckit to control for omitted heterogeneity of the employed. The data we use come from a representative tracer survey of Poles who left secondary schools or graduated from HEIs over the period of 1998-2005. We find that only the HEI graduates obtain a wage premium from skills acquired in the course of formal education. This finding is robust to a large number of robustness checks with different indicators of the educational mismatch and instrumental variables.

     
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    Series: GLO discussion paper ; no. 151
    Subjects: education; skills; signalling; job matching; wages; Heckman correction
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  17. What does someone's gender identity signal to employers?
    Author: Borm, Hannah Van; Dhoop, Marlot; Acker, Allien Van; Baertiv, Stijn
    Published: [2020]
    Publisher:  Ghent University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent

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    Series: Working paper / Faculty of Economics and Business Administration ; 992 (2020)
    Subjects: Transgender men; fictitious hiring decisions; theories of discrimination; signalling; scenario experiment; risk aversion
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  18. A signal of train(ability)?
    grade repetition and hiring chances
    Author: Baert, Stijn; Picchio, Matteo
    Published: agosto 2020
    Publisher:  Università Politecnica delle Marche, Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali, [Ancona]

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    Series: Quaderno di ricerca / Università Politecnica delle Marche, Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali ; n. 446
    Subjects: Grade retention; hiring youth; training; signalling; queuing
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  19. A signal of (train)ability?
    grade repetition and hiring chances
    Author: Baert, Stijn; Picchio, Matteo
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Global Labor Organization (GLO), Essen

    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... more

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    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 résumés sent in application to real vacancies. Overall, grade retention does not significantly affect positive call-back by employers. However, when narrowing in on vacancies for occupations where on-the-job training is important, job candidates with a record of grade retention are 16% less likely to receive a positive reaction. This finding is consistent with Queuing theory.

     
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    Series: GLO discussion paper ; no. 598
    Subjects: grade retention; hiring youth; training; signalling; queuing
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  20. Costly mistakes: why and when spelling errors in resumes jeopardise interview chances
    Author: Sterkens, Philippe; Caers, Ralf; Couck, Marijke de; Geamanu, Michael; Van Driessche, Victor; Baert, Stijn
    Published: July 2021
    Publisher:  IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Germany

    Earlier research has associated spelling errors in resumes with reduced hiring chances. However, the analysis of hiring penalties due to spelling errors has thus far been restricted to white-collar occupations and relatively high numbers of errors... more

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    Earlier research has associated spelling errors in resumes with reduced hiring chances. However, the analysis of hiring penalties due to spelling errors has thus far been restricted to white-collar occupations and relatively high numbers of errors per resume. Moreover, the mechanisms underlying the spelling error penalty have remained unclear. To fill these gaps in the peerreviewed literature, we conducted a scenario experiment with 445 genuine recruiters. Results show that, compared to error-free resumes, hiring penalties are being inflicted for both error-laden resumes (18.5 percent points lower interview probability) and resumes with fewer errors (7.3 percent points lower interview probability). Furthermore, we find substantial heterogeneity in penalties inflicted based on various applicant, job and participant characteristics. About half of the spelling error penalty can be explained by the perception that applicants who make spelling errors have lower interpersonal skills (9.0%), conscientiousness (12.1%) and mental abilities (32.2%).

     
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    Series: Discussion paper series / IZA ; no. 14614
    Subjects: spelling errors; resumes; signalling; hiring experiments
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  21. Costly mistakes
    why and when spelling errors in resumes jeopardise interview chances
    Author: Sterkens, Philippe; Caers, Ralf; Couck, Marijke de; Geamanu, Michael; Van Driessche, Victor; Baert, Stijn
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Global Labor Organization (GLO), Essen

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    Earlier research has associated spelling errors in resumes with reduced hiring chances. However, the analysis of hiring penalties due to spelling errors has thus far been restricted to white-collar occupations and relatively high numbers of errors per resume. Moreover, the mechanisms underlying the spelling error penalty have remained unclear. To fill these gaps in the peerreviewed literature, we conducted a scenario experiment with 445 genuine recruiters. Results show that, compared to error-free resumes, hiring penalties are being inflicted for both error-laden resumes (18.5 percent points lower interview probability) and resumes with fewer errors (7.3 percent points lower interview probability). Furthermore, we find substantial heterogeneity in penalties inflicted based on various applicant, job and participant characteristics. About half of the spelling error penalty can be explained by the perception that applicants who make spelling errors have lower interpersonal skills (9.0%), conscientiousness (12.1%) and mental abilities (32.2%).

     
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    Series: GLO discussion paper ; no. 899
    Subjects: spelling errors; resumes; signalling; hiring experiments
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  22. Limit pricing and strategic investment
    Author: Brighi, Luigi; D'Amato, Marcello
    Published: October 2022
    Publisher:  nUnimore, Università degli studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Dipartimento di economia Marco Biagi, [Modena]

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    Series: DEMB working paper series ; n. 216
    Subjects: Entry deterrence; signalling; strategic investment; limit pricing; pooling equilibrium
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  23. Incentive and signaling effects of bonus payments
    an experiment in a company
    Author: Deversi, Marvin; Spantig, Lisa
    Published: February 2023
    Publisher:  CESifo, Munich, Germany

    Economists and management scholars have argued that the scope of incentives to increase cooperation in organizations is limited as their use signals the prevalence of free-riding among employees. This paper tests this hypothesis experimentally, using... more

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    Economists and management scholars have argued that the scope of incentives to increase cooperation in organizations is limited as their use signals the prevalence of free-riding among employees. This paper tests this hypothesis experimentally, using a sample of managers and employees from a large company. We exogenously vary whether managers are informed about prevailing cooperation levels among employees before they can set incentives to promote cooperation. In addition, employees matched to informed managers learn that the manager could base their incentive choice on cooperation levels. We find no evidence for the hypothesized signaling effect. Having an informed manager set the incentive does not change employees' be-liefs about the cooperativeness of others. Incentives hence have strong positive effects on cooperative beliefs, irrespective of information. The absence of the signaling effect seems related to the perception of managers' intentions, a mitigating but understudied factor.

     
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    Series: CESifo working papers ; 10302 (2023)
    Subjects: cooperation; incentives; signalling; crowding out; experiment
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  24. "Let them eat cake"
    drought, peasant uprisings, and demand for institutional change in the French revolution
    Author: Waldinger, Maria
    Published: February 2023
    Publisher:  CESifo, Munich, Germany

    The paper studies whether a drought in 1788 affected the outbreak of peasant revolts during the French Revolution. I construct a community-level data set with information on local drought severity and peasant uprisings in 1789. Results indicate that... more

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    The paper studies whether a drought in 1788 affected the outbreak of peasant revolts during the French Revolution. I construct a community-level data set with information on local drought severity and peasant uprisings in 1789. Results indicate that those more affected by the drought more often participated in peasant revolts against the feudal system. Then, I investigate a mechanism through which drought may have affected peasant revolts. I find that those more affected by the drought had higher demand for institutional change as expressed in the lists of grievances. The results provide evidence on specific ways in which the drought of 1788 impacted the French Revolution, a milestone in the democratization of Western Europe.

     
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    Series: CESifo working papers ; 10303 (2023)
    Subjects: cooperation; incentives; signalling; crowding out; experiment
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  25. Tickets to the global market
    first US patent awards and Chinese firm exports
    Author: Gong, Kaiji; Li, Yao; Manova, Kalina; Sun, Stephen Teng
    Published: [2023]
    Publisher:  Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics and Political Science, London

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    Series: Discussion paper / Centre for Economic Performance ; no. 1962 (November 2023)
    Subjects: patent rights; innovation; export performance; trade; market protection; asymmetric information; signalling
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