A Field Experiment on the Role of Socioemotional Skills and Gender for Hiring in Turkey
A vast literature shows the importance of socioemotional skills in earnings and employment, but whether they matter in getting hired remains unanswered. This study seeks to address this question and further investigates whether socioemotional skill...
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okr-10986-333592022-09-20T00:13:32Z A Field Experiment on the Role of Socioemotional Skills and Gender for Hiring in Turkey Nas Ozen, Efsan Hut, Stefan Levin, Victoria Munoz Boudet, Ana Maria GENDER DISCRIMINATION SOCIO-EMOTIONAL SKILLS LABOR MARKET FIELD EXPERIMENT GENDER HIRING BIAS A vast literature shows the importance of socioemotional skills in earnings and employment, but whether they matter in getting hired remains unanswered. This study seeks to address this question and further investigates whether socioemotional skill signals in job applicants' resumes have the same value for male and female candidates. In a large-scale randomized audit study, an online job portal in Turkey is used to send fictitious resumes to real job openings, collecting a unique data set that enables investigating different stages of candidate screening. The study finds that socioemotional skills appear to be valued only when an employer specifically asks for such skills in the vacancy ad. When not asked for, however, candidates can face a penalty in the form of lower callback rates. A significant penalty is only observed for women, not for men. The study does not find evidence of other gender differences in the hiring process. 2020-02-20T16:52:22Z 2020-02-20T16:52:22Z 2020-02 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/285701582055500779/A-Field-Experiment-on-the-Role-of-Socioemotional-Skills-and-Gender-for-Hiring-in-Turkey http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33359 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9154 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Europe and Central Asia Turkey |
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GENDER DISCRIMINATION SOCIO-EMOTIONAL SKILLS LABOR MARKET FIELD EXPERIMENT GENDER HIRING BIAS Nas Ozen, Efsan Hut, Stefan Levin, Victoria Munoz Boudet, Ana Maria A Field Experiment on the Role of Socioemotional Skills and Gender for Hiring in Turkey |
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A vast literature shows the importance
of socioemotional skills in earnings and employment, but
whether they matter in getting hired remains unanswered.
This study seeks to address this question and further
investigates whether socioemotional skill signals in job
applicants' resumes have the same value for male and
female candidates. In a large-scale randomized audit study,
an online job portal in Turkey is used to send fictitious
resumes to real job openings, collecting a unique data set
that enables investigating different stages of candidate
screening. The study finds that socioemotional skills appear
to be valued only when an employer specifically asks for
such skills in the vacancy ad. When not asked for, however,
candidates can face a penalty in the form of lower callback
rates. A significant penalty is only observed for women, not
for men. The study does not find evidence of other gender
differences in the hiring process. |
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Working Paper |
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Nas Ozen, Efsan Hut, Stefan Levin, Victoria Munoz Boudet, Ana Maria |
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Nas Ozen, Efsan Hut, Stefan Levin, Victoria Munoz Boudet, Ana Maria |
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Nas Ozen, Efsan |
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A Field Experiment on the Role of Socioemotional Skills and Gender for Hiring in Turkey |
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A Field Experiment on the Role of Socioemotional Skills and Gender for Hiring in Turkey |
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A Field Experiment on the Role of Socioemotional Skills and Gender for Hiring in Turkey |
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A Field Experiment on the Role of Socioemotional Skills and Gender for Hiring in Turkey |
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A Field Experiment on the Role of Socioemotional Skills and Gender for Hiring in Turkey |
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field experiment on the role of socioemotional skills and gender for hiring in turkey |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2020 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/285701582055500779/A-Field-Experiment-on-the-Role-of-Socioemotional-Skills-and-Gender-for-Hiring-in-Turkey http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33359 |
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