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To Hire or Not to Hire: The Influence of Accents on Hiring Decisions

International Journal of Selection and Assessment
ABSTRACT This study explores how accents influence hiring decisions, focusing on evaluations made by non‐native speakers. A total of 391 Turkish‐speaking university students assessed candidates for tutoring positions for English (a language‐relevant role) and math (a non‐language‐related role).
İrem Kuyucu, Helin Erden, Tuba P. Öztürk, Junko Kanero   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Michael is better than Mehmet: exploring the perils of algorithmic biases and selective adherence to advice from automated decision support systems in hiring

Frontiers in Psychology
IntroductionArtificial intelligence algorithms are increasingly adopted as decisional aides in many contexts such as human resources, often with the promise of being fast, efficient, and even capable of overcoming biases of human decision-makers ...
Astrid Marieke Rosenthal-von der Pütten, Alexandra Sach   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Cost of a Nutritious Diet in Cafeterias: Evidence From US Military Dining Facilities

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Providing nutritious meals in institutional settings with financial constraints, such as military dining facilities, is challenging. The US Department of War (DoW) and US Department of Agriculture (USDA) collaborated to modernize the Basic Daily Food Allowance (BDFA) using an optimization model that incorporates service members' consumption ...
Linlin Fan, Yiwen Zhao, Andrea Carlson, Parke Wilde, Joanna Reagan, Julianna Jayne, Starr Seip, Denise Laursen, Matthew P. Rabbitt   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Remote work as the main attraction in job offers: a consequence of the COVID-19

Tendencias
As a consequence of the pandemic caused by COVID-19, some companies were forced to carry out their operations remotely, in order to face quarantine without putting their business at risk.
Félix Oscar Socorro Márquez
doaj   +1 more source

The employer potential of MOOCs: A mixed-methods study of human resource professionals’ thinking on MOOCs

International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2014
While press coverage of MOOCs (massive open online courses) has been considerable and major MOOC providers are beginning to realize that employers may be a market for their courses, research on employers’ receptivity to using MOOCs is scarce.
Alexandria Walton Radford, Jessica Robles, Stacey Cataylo, Laura Horn, Jessica Thornton, Keith E. Whitfield   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

How Video‐Based Information Affects Farmers' Willingness to Pay for Drone Services

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Professional service for digital technology like agricultural drones lowers transaction costs and scope thresholds for smallholders. Meanwhile, perceptual adoption barriers remain underexplored. We conduct a two‐stage choice experiment with a randomized video‐based information treatment among 384 Chinese crop farmers to measure its effect on ...
Hua Zhang, Lena Kuhn, Hang Xiong, Zhanli Sun, Thomas Glauben   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Chinese Trade Competition and Rural Mexican Migration

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT China's accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001 reshaped global trade, reducing U.S. demand for Mexican manufactured goods and weakening Mexico's manufacturing employment. This study estimates how this trade‐induced decline affected migration and employment decisions among rural Mexicans.
Zachariah Rutledge, Joaquin Mayorga
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing employer attitudes toward hiring individuals with mental disabilities [PDF]

, 2001
Plan BThis research was a study to assess employers' attitudes toward hiring individuals with mental illness. The participants in this study were chosen at random and selected from a mailing list accessed from Projects With Industries (PWI).
Tremblay, Gene
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Rural Labor Supply and Economic Opportunities: Commuting, Migration, Tariffs, and Immigration

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Some rural counties remain dependent on agricultural or manufacturing jobs, but an increasing proportion have diversified economics. Rural counties also differ in their abilities to commute to an urban market characterized by higher wages and labor productivity.
Peter F. Orazem, Mary C. Ahearn
wiley   +1 more source

The Emerging Technology in Hiring: Insights from Assembly Line Workers and Managers

Administrative Sciences
Hiring assembly line workers is often time- and resource-demanding. Following the call for more effective hiring practices, this article describes the design, development, and implementation of an ‘AI-empowered recruitment model’, an emerging technology ...
Kirk Chang, Kuo-Tai Cheng
doaj   +1 more source