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Journal of Labor Economics. 37:1267-1300
Referrals can improve screening and self-selection of applicants during the hiring process. We model and estimate how referral information affects the selection of employees through job offers, acc...
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SSRN Electronic Journal.
Interviews present a puzzle: Research suggests they are of little value in screening hires, and yet they remain pervasive. Using a longitudinal dataset from a large call center company, we find that interviewers vary in quality along three dimensions
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Journal of Climate. 28:2842-2855
Extreme monsoon rainfall in India has disastrous consequences, including significant socioeconomic impacts. However, little is known about the overall trends and climate factors associated with extreme rainfall because rainfall greatly varies across
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SSRN Electronic Journal.
This paper investigates the effect of information transmitted by referrals on search efficiency. We test several implications of our model using data from a call center company that contain rich information on applicants, employees, and referrers. Th
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Climatic Change. 113:1001-1024
Consensus on global warming is the result of multiple and varying lines of evidence, and one key ramification is the increase in frequency of extreme climate events including record high temperatures. Here we develop a metric—called “record equiv
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Labour Economics. 15:1296-1316
Abstact We present empirical evidence on gender disparities in wage returns to job tenure and experience. We find that the overall wage return on an extra year of labor market experience is lower for women than men. A decomposition analysis shows tha
Autor:
Lalith Munasinghe
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Labour Economics. 13:589-609
This paper presents evidence on the effects of worker expectations on labor turnover, a topic largely ignored in the voluminous literature on labor mobility. Two survey instruments related to expected job duration and chances of promotion in the Nati
Autor:
Lalith Munasinghe, Nachum Sicherman
Publikováno v:
Eastern Economic Journal. 32:595-616
Time preference is a key determinant of investments in human capital and occupational choice. Individuals with higher discount rates are less likely to invest in human capital and hence more likely to select into careers with lower and flatter earnin
Autor:
Brendan O'Flaherty, Lalith Munasinghe
Publikováno v:
Journal of Labor Economics. 23:213-233
Turnover falls with tenure, but wages do not always rise (and sometimes fall) with tenure. We reconcile these findings by revisiting an old issue: how gains from firm-specific training are split between workers and firms. The division is determined b
Autor:
Karl Sigman, Lalith Munasinghe
Publikováno v:
Labour Economics. 11:191-218
We present an analysis of labor mobility as a predictor of wages and job turnover. Data from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth show that workers with a history of less frequent job changes (stayers) earn higher wages and change jobs less fre