Aesthetic innovations have become increasingly important appropriation mechanisms for firms. Since 2003, the number of design patent applications (to protect aesthetic innovations) has tripled compared to doubling in the numbers of both patent and trademark applications. However, despite the growing interest of firms in aesthetic innovations, knowledge on their determinants is limited. Work on ...

In a random search environment with two racial groups each composed of identical numbers of high and low productivity workers, …rms use an imperfect screening device (interviews) to control hiring. If inconclusive interviews lead …rms to hire majority workers but not minority workers, then the unemployment pool for majority workers is of higher average quality. This can justify the initial hiri...

On an otherwise symmetric oligopoly market with stochastic demands for heterogeneous products firms can either hire an employee or partner or buy the required labor input on the labor market. Whereas the wage of hired labor does not depend on the realization of stochastic demand, the price of bought labor input reacts positively to product demand. We first solve the market by deriving the equil...

Research on employers’ hiring discrimination is limited by the unlawfulness of such activity. Consequently, researchers have focused on the intention to hire. Instead, we rely on a virtual labour market, the Fantasy Football Premier League, where employers can freely exercise their taste for racial discrimination in terms of hiring and firing. The setting allows us to eliminate co-worker, consu...

LPMP West Sumatra is a company in the technical implementation department of Ministry Education and led by leadership responsible to Director General for Improving Quality Educators Personnel (PMPTK). The selection process hiring contract employees has difficulties because system still manual where all processes from initial stage registration final are done manually so it takes quite long time...

Criteria used in hiring workers often do not reflect the skills required on job. By comparing trainee performance for newly hired conditional competitive civil service examination scores French public sector workers, we test whether women and men with same score exhibit similar a job-related programme. Both contain anonymous non-anonymous components that observe separately. We find by end of pr...

This article examines how cultural matching relates to a job applicant’s likelihood of getting hired into an organization and identifies the components of cultural similarity that matter most for hiring success. Cultural compatibility at the hiring stage can forecast an individual’s post-hire productivity but is difficult to reliably measure in the selection process. As a consequence, cultural ...

This article presents culture as a vehicle of labor market sorting. Providing a case study of hiring in elite professional service firms, I investigate the often suggested but heretofore empirically unexamined hypothesis that cultural similarities between employers and job candidates matter for employers’ hiring decisions. Drawing from 120 interviews with employers as well as participant observ...