Whom do employers want? The role of recent employment and unemployment status and age

We use a résumé audit study to investigate the role of employment and unemployment histories in callbacks to job applications. We find that applicants with 52 weeks of unemployment have a lower callback rate than those with shorter spells. There is no relationship, however, between spell length an...

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Main Authors: Farberfarber, H.S (Author), Herbst, C.M (Author), Silverman, D. (Author), von Wachter, T. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Chicago Press 2019
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