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Research

June 24, 2022

Minimum wage increases lead to substantial declines in vacancy postings

Largest effect in at-risk occupations

  • hiring
  • minimum wage
  • search and matching
  • vacancies
  • Didem Tüzemen
  • Marianna Kudlyak
  • Murat Tasci
Research

March 18, 2021

Even those who are fair can discriminate

Systemic discrimination through the design of the recruitment process

  • discrimination
  • hiring
  • Dominique Meurs
  • Patrick A. Puhani
Research

November 24, 2020

Video resumes increase callback rates

People with visible disabilities benefit equally from this service

  • correspondence study
  • disability
  • discrimination
  • hiring
  • job application
  • video resume
  • Charles Bellemare
  • Guy Lacroix
  • Marion Goussé
  • Steeve Marchand
Research

November 20, 2020

Vacancy postings reflect trend towards working from home

Study from Austria analyzes how COVID-19 has affected labor demand

  • Austria
  • COVID-19
  • hiring
  • job ads
  • labor demand
  • remote work
  • telework
  • vacancy
  • Lennart Ziegler
  • Omar Bamieh
Research

May 12, 2019

Discrimination in hiring based on presence of children or perceived “risk” of pregnancy

Married, childless women applying to part-time jobs have the lowest callback rates

  • childcare
  • discrimination
  • female labor force participation
  • fertility
  • gender
  • hiring
  • job application
  • Ana Fernandes
  • Doris Weichselbaumer
  • Sascha O. Becker
Research

September 18, 2017

Gender bias in teaching evaluations by economics students

In an ongoing heated debate on sexism in the economic profession, sparked by an analysis by Alice Wu of sexist […]

  • academia
  • discrimination
  • economics
  • gender bias
  • hiring
  • professor
  • promotion
  • teaching
  • tenure
  • women
  • Friederike Mengel
  • Jan Sauermann
  • Ulf Zölitz
Research

July 11, 2017

Long-term unemployed through the eyes of recruiters: Less motivated, less talented and less trainable

Recent research has shown that employers are reluctant to hire long-term unemployed: the longer job candidates’ unemployment spell, the lower […]

  • cognitive skills
  • hiring
  • job applications
  • long-term unemployment
  • motivation
  • productivity
  • recruiting
  • social skills
  • Eva Van Belle
  • Marijke De Couck
  • Ralf Caers
  • Stijn Baert
  • Valentina Di Stasio
Research

September 20, 2016

Discrimination against female migrants wearing a headscarf

Germany is currently experiencing a high influx of Muslim migrants. Their labor market integration is a crucial policy goal. However, […]

  • callback
  • correspondence study
  • discrimination
  • field experiment
  • headscarf
  • hiring
  • job applications
  • Muslim
  • resume
  • Turkish
  • Doris Weichselbaumer
Research

August 5, 2016

Women’s chances in STEM fields better than often thought

One of the most common explanations why women are underrepresented in many areas of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) […]

  • academia
  • bias
  • discrimination
  • exam
  • France
  • hiring
  • Science
  • STEM
  • women
  • Annabelle Krause
  • Klaus F. Zimmermann
  • Melina Hillion
  • Thomas Breda
  • Ulf Rinne
Research

February 26, 2016

Should firms fill vacancies with own workers or outside hires?

Recruitment is one of the most important decisions businesses face. To ensure productivity and profitability remains high it is crucial […]

  • employees
  • hiring
  • insider
  • job candidates
  • outsider
  • promotion
  • recruiting
  • vacancy
  • Jed DeVaro
Research

January 14, 2016

Employers will check you out! Facebook profile pictures affect hiring chances

What many have already suspected has now been scientifically proven: Employers are screening job candidates through Facebook. In fact, your […]

  • attractiveness
  • callback
  • discrimination
  • facebook
  • hiring
  • job applications
  • profile picture
  • resume
  • Lynn Decuypere
  • Stijn Baert
Videos

March 11, 2015

David Neumark on the employment effects of minimum wages

In a video interview, IZA Fellow David Neumark (University of California, Irvine) talks about the employment effects of minimum wages […]

  • distribution
  • employment
  • hiring
  • job destruction
  • labor market
  • low-skilled
  • minimum wages
  • David Neumark
Research

August 1, 2014

Hiring credits stimulated employment during recession in France

In response to soaring unemployment during the Great Recession, the French government introduced a hiring credit in December 2008. The […]

  • employment
  • France
  • hiring
  • labor market policy
  • minimum wage
  • natural experiment
  • recession
  • Pierre Cahuc
  • Stéphane Carcillo
  • Thomas Le Barbanchon
Research

June 27, 2014

What happens when employers are free to discriminate? Evidence from the English Fantasy Football Premier League

Research on employers’ hiring discrimination is limited by the unlawfulness of such activity. Observational studies report lower wages for minority, […]

  • employment
  • England
  • football
  • game
  • hiring
  • race
  • racial discrimination
  • Alex Bryson
  • Arnaud Chevalier
Videos

September 25, 2013

Ulf Rinne on the merits of anonymous job applications

In the latest IZA interview, Ulf Rinne, Deputy Director of Research at IZA, talks about the merits and problems of […]

  • affirmative action
  • anonymous job applications
  • discrimination
  • employers
  • firms
  • hiring
  • minority
  • policy tool
  • Ulf Rinne
Research

June 10, 2013

Firms can rely on workers referred by current employees

Hiring job applicants who were referred by current employees is a common and empirically well-supported practice, but there is relatively […]

  • hiring
  • job matching
  • jobs referrals
  • worker productivity
  • Bo Cowgill
  • Michael Housman
  • Mitchell Hoffman
  • Stephen V. Burks

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