Organizational Hiring Preferences: Comparison of Traditional and Non-traditional Hiring and Recruitment Practices

The gap between education preferences and hiring practices.

Hiring Practices, Employment Protection and Temporary Jobs

This paper examines the effects of a two-tier reform of the Employment Protection Legislation that increases flexibility at the margin by allowing firms to hire workers on temporary positions and investigates under which conditions temporary jobs are stepping stones to permanent employment. The analysis has far focused on the role of temporary jobs in employers adjustment to economic shocks and...

The Productivity Costs of Inefficient Hiring Practices: Evidence from Late Teacher Hiring.

We use matched employee-employer records from the teacher labor market to explore the effects of late teacher hiring on student achievement. Hiring teachers after the school year starts reduces student achievement by 0.042SD in mathematics and 0.026SD in reading. This reflects, in part, a temporary disruption effect in the first year. In mathematics, but not in reading, late-hired teachers rema...

Improving the recruitment and hiring process for women faculty.

A T u c w m s ( C r t i r a f “ n the past decade, the number of women medical students as equaled or exceeded the number of men. Despite this rowth, women continue to be persistently and substanially underrepresented in academic medicine. Although omen are more likely than men to pursue an academic areer, they are still underrepresented, constituting fewer han one-third of all physicians holdi...

Inequalities, Preferences and Rankings in US Sports Coach Hiring Networks

Hiring a head coach of a college sports team is vital which will definitely have a great influence on the later development of the team. However, a lot of attention has been focused on each coach’s individual features. A systematic and quantitative analysis of the whole coach hiring market is lacking. In a coach hiring network, the coaches are actually voting with their feet. It is interesting ...