Abstract: Using personnel data from a large U.S. retail firm, we examine whether the race or ethnicity of the hiring manager affects the racial composition of new hires. Estimating models with store fixed effects, we find significant effects of manager race and ethnicity. First, all nonblack managers—i.e., whites, Hispanics, and Asians—hire more whites and fewer blacks than do black managers. T...

No consensus definition exists for postgraduate physician assistant (PA) training. This report from the AAPA Task Force on Accreditation of Postgraduate PA Training Programs describes the types of clinical training programs and their effects on hiring and compensation of PAs. Although completing a postgraduate program appears to have no effect on compensation, PAs who complete these programs ma...

In this article, we analyze the impact of uncertainty on the hiring process. We show the connection between models of statistical discrimination where uncertainty can work against groups that have less reliable indicators of future productivity and models of option value where uncertainty about future productivity can be beneficial for these groups. These models generate hypotheses about the re...

The long-aw a ited vote by Faculty Senate regarding a disputed theology department h iring has transpired, and i t ’s not a ll good news fo r U niversity P re s id en t F a the r E dw ard M alloy . Additionally, an October decision by the Office of Residence Life to oppose a pro­ posed dem onstration by the College Democrats was denounced in a d iffer­ ent resolution. In last n ight’s Faculty S...

This study provides some preliminary insights about the hiring policies at firm level concerning immigrants. In the most recent years, Spain experienced a huge entrance of immigrants and this entrance produced interesting effects on the structure of the local labor market. Rather than focusing on the study of the complementarity and substitutability between natives and immigrants, this analysis...

The goal of this paper is to find a competitive algorithm for the following problem. We are given a hypergraph G = (X,E), |E| = n, with weighted edges and maximum edge size k. We wish to maximize the weight of a matching M ⊆ E of G, given that edges are revealed in a random order, and that when an edge e is revealed the algorithm must decide either e ∈ M or e / ∈M . Note that this is a generali...

Population aging and the consequent increased financial burden on the U.S. Social Security system is driving new proposals for program reform. One major reform goal is to create stronger incentives for older individuals to stay in the workforce longer. However, hiring discrimination against older workers creates demand-side barriers that limit the effectiveness of these supply-side reforms. Evi...

Since the early 1970s, ballot initiatives and court rulings have sought to equalize funding across California schools. Yet 30 years later, variations in funding remain both across and within school districts. Moreover, although “funding per pupil” provides a readily available and understandable measure of school resources within a district, it provides little insight into how individual schools...

The Ramón y Cajal Program promotes the hiring of top researchers in Spanish R&D centers and academic institutions. The centralized mechanism associated to the Program is analyzed. The paper models it as a two-sided matching market and studies if it provides the incentives to increase the quality of the researchers hired. We analyze the mechanism both under complete and incomplete information. T...

Although previous research has established that physical height matters in hiring contexts, it is less clear through which channels height exerts its effect. The current research examines several potential components of the height premium: warmth, competence, job competency for a leadership position, physical health, and attractiveness. We made target individuals taller or shorter by digitally ...