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- Title
Incentivized Resume Rating: Eliciting Employer Preferences without Deception.
- Authors
Kessler, Judd B.; Low, Corinne; Sullivan, Colin D.
- Abstract
We introduce a new experimental paradigm to evaluate employer preferences, called incentivized resume rating (IRR). Employers evaluate resumes they know to be hypothetical in order to be matched with real job seekers, preserving incentives while avoiding the deception necessary in audit studies. We deploy IRR with employers recruiting college seniors from a prestigious school, randomizing human capital characteristics and demographics of hypothetical candidates. We measure both employer preferences for candidates and employer beliefs about the likelihood that candidates will accept job offers, avoiding a typical confound in audit studies. We discuss the costs, benefits, and future applications of this new methodology. (JEL D83, I26, J23, J24, M51)
- Subjects
JOB resumes; EMPLOYERS; JOB applications; EMPLOYEE selection; JOB hunting; EMPLOYEE recruitment; LABOR incentives
- Publication
American Economic Review, 2019, Vol 109, Issue 11, p3713
- ISSN
0002-8282
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1257/aer.20181714