David Neumark*⇑ * Neumark is Professor of Economics at UCI. Email: dneumark{at}uci.edu

T here's quite a debate in the popular press right now on the topic of how women are faring in the academic STEM fields. On one hand, we have a Nobel Laureate unapologetically calling for single sex laboratories 1 because " girls " distract male scientists, and on the other hand, we have a group of human ecology researchers claiming a significant hiring preference for women over men in STEM fac...

INTRODUCTION The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) endorses emergency medicine (EM) residency training as the only legitimate pathway to practicing EM, yet the economic reality of Iowa's rural population will continue to require the hiring of non-EM trained physicians. The objective of our study is to better understand the current staffing practices of Iowa emergency departments (...

A growing number of IT professionals believe that being certified will give them advantages when looking for jobs and many managers use IT certification as a selection tool when hiring. However, some managers have questioned the value of certifications or of some certifications in particular. The purpose of this research is to determine the factors that predict managers’ intentions to use IT ce...

Our results indicate that males and females have about the same probability of being hired in a mixed pool of male and female applicants, independently of the type of vacancy. The probability of hiring a candidate of a certain sex is therefore determined by the gender composition of the pool of applicants who have selected themselves on the basis of job characteristics, hiring standards and the...

The hiring problem has been recently introduced by Broder et al. in last year’s ACM-SIAM Symp. on Discrete Algorithms (SODA 2008), as a simple model for decision making under uncertainty. Candidates are interviewed in a sequential fashion, each one endowed with a quality score, and decisions to hire or discard them must be taken on the fly. The goal is to maintain a good rate of hiring while im...