Do Employers Use Unemployment as a Sorting Criterion When Hiring? Evidence from a Field Experiment
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- Stefan Eriksson & Dan-Olof Rooth, 2014. "Do Employers Use Unemployment as a Sorting Criterion When Hiring? Evidence from a Field Experiment," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 104(3), pages 1014-1039, March.
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Keywords
unemployment; field experiment; scarring;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J64 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EXP-2012-01-10 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-HRM-2012-01-10 (Human Capital and Human Resource Management)
- NEP-LAB-2012-01-10 (Labour Economics)
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