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- Eriksson, Stefan, et al.
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Competition between Employed and Unemployed Job Applicants : Swedish evidence
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of Economics. - : Wiley. - 0347-0520 .- 1467-9442. ; 108:3, s. 373-396
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We use the Swedish Applicant Database to empirically investigate whether being unemployed per se reduces the probability of getting contacted by a firm. All searchers looking for a new job are invited to submit their personal details to this database over the Internet. Since we have access to exactly the same information as the firms, we can minimize the problems associated with unobserved heterogeneity. Our results show that an unemployed applicant faces a lower contact probability than an otherwise identical employed applicant, thus supporting the notion that firms view employment status as a signal for productivity.
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- Eriksson, Stefan, et al.
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Detecting discrimination in the hiring process : Evidence from an Internet-based search channel
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper uses data from an Internet-based CV database to investigate how factors which may be used as a basis for discrimination, such as the searchers’ ethnicity, gender, age and employment status, affect the number of contacts they receive from firms. Since we have access to essentially the same information as the firms, we can handle the problems associated with unobserved heterogeneity better than most existing studies of discrimination. We find that, even when we control for other differences, searchers who have non-Nordic names, are old or unemployed receive significantly fewer contacts. Moreover, we find that this matters for the hiring outcome: Searchers who receive more contacts have a higher probability of actually getting hired.
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- Eriksson, Stefan, 1972-, et al.
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Detecting discrimination in the hiring process : evidence from an Internet-based search channel
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Ingår i: Empirical Economics. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0377-7332 .- 1435-8921. ; 43:2, s. 537-563
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article uses data from an Internet-based CV database to study how job searchers’ ethnicity, employment status, age, and gender affect how often they are contacted by firms. Since we know which types of information that are available to the recruiting firms, we can handle some of the problems with unobserved heterogeneity better than many existing discrimination studies. We find that searchers who have non-Nordic names, are unemployed or old get significantly fewer firm contacts. Moreover, this matters for the hiring outcome: searchers who get more contacts have a higher probability of getting hired.
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- Eriksson, Stefan, et al.
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The Determinants and Consequences of Unemployed Workers’ Wage Demands
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper studies the determinants and labor market consequences of unemployed workers’ wage demands using direct data on the workers’ actual wage requests. Our results show that most workers want a wage close to what they earned in their previous jobs, and thus much more than they get in unemployment benefits. However, our results also show that some groups, such as women, tend to systematically demand lower wages. Also, we find that workers with high wage demands are contacted by firms less often than otherwise similar workers with lower wage demands. Thus our results indicate that too high wage demands may contribute to high unemployment.
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- Eriksson, Stefan, et al.
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The determinants and some consequences of unemployed workers’ wage demands
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Ingår i: Labour. - : Wiley. - 1121-7081 .- 1467-9914. ; 26:2, s. 208-224
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper studies the determinants and consequences in the early stages of the hiring process of unemployed workers’ wage demands using direct data on workers’ wage requests. We show that most unemployed workers want a wage close to their previous wage, and thus much more than they get in unemployment benefits. However, some groups, such as women, tend to demand lower wages. Moreover, we find that workers with high wage demands are contacted by firms less often than otherwise similar workers with lower wage demands. Thus, our results suggest that too high wage demands may contribute to high unemployment.
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