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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Job offer"”.
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Anticipated work-nonwork balance and conflict as predictors of job choice: Identity salience as moderator
This study examines individual job choice decision making with the foreknowledge that such choices will impact the quality of a person’s future work-nonwork roles. It is likely that job applicants have at least some anticipation of the work-nonwork conflict (WNC) and work-nonwork balance (WNB) they …
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Essays on Search and Screening Frictions
Frictions form an integral part of the job search. Search and screening costs make the matching process for workers and firms costly, and asymmetric information can significantly contribute to mismatch: workers cannot observe who else applies to a vacancy, whereas firms cannot observe what other …
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Detecting Deceptive Impression Management Behaviors in Interviews Using Natural Language Processing
… to improve their chances of receiving a job offer. Self-report measures of deceptive IM are typically used to evaluate interview faking in a lab setting but are limited when used in practice due to social desirability concerns. Given this limitation, natural language processing (NLP) has …
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Military Transition Assistance Programs: Identifying the Needs and Values of Dislocated Workers
… of veterans benefits, negotiating after a job offer is made, and veteran's guide to entrepreneurship. Facilitators attempted to meet the needs of participants by methods based on their own experiences, if they felt they still had control of the class, and class size. The items most valued …
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Factors influencing the reservation wage of unemployed workers in the South Otago region
… Under the assumption of a normally distributed job offer function, searchers who have income from the underground economy, are older, or had a better paid previous job have a higher reservation wage.
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Essays on Interviews and Matching
… I estimate a joint structural model of interview offers and post-interview ranks in which unobservables may be correlated across the two periods, and thereby I use the information contained in post-interview preferences to correct for employers' additional pre-interview information. The third …
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One thing I love: A novel and, Balance in creation: A novelist's view of the psychology of inspiration, an accompanying essay
… averted tragedy. Back in Perth, Jake loses his job and Anna returns to work. Eventually Jake finds out about Anna's relationship with his brother. A tentative truce has been established when Jake receives a job offer from his older brother in Utah, forcing Anna to decide where her allegiances …
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Towards a More Complete Understanding of Adverse Impact: Examining Issues of Minority Availability
… apply and the number of minorities who accept a job offer); three general factors comprise minority availability: the missing applicant problem, targeted recruitment and job refusal rates. As minority availability issues have not been systematically addressed in the broader literature, the …
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Understanding Anticipatory Socialization for New Student Affairs Professionals
… anticipatory socialization, specifically the job search and pre-entry communication with their new organizations. The theory that emerged provides insight to hiring organizations on their hiring practices, graduate school preparation programs on the strategies used to prepare students for the …
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The role of employee value propositions and corporate brand preferences in talent attraction
… influence an applicant's decision to pursue a job offer from an organisation. Recruitment efforts no longer focus solely on the unemployed job seekers market, but has in recent years extended more aggressively into recruiting students before graduation. Moreover, some authors suggest that 60 % …
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Work-family responsibilities and support for women academics in Pakistan
… earned, as in examples of a woman giving up a job offer in favour of her husband, or giving an academic husband financial support for publication. As a further example of contesting discourses, the study identifies that academic women are expected to be productive on the terms of globalised …
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Playing Hard-to-Get : The Effects of Applicant Availability on Interviewers' Impressions
… being hard-versus easy-to-get on evaluations of job candidates was, tested in three mock interview studies. In study 1, undergraduate students (N=105) read a transcript of a job interview. The transcript contained identical biographical information about the candidate in all conditions, the …
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Essays in Financial Economics
… setting. We then develop and estimate an on-the-job search model which shows that the average worker requires only a 0.25 percentage point increase in employer contribution dollars to offset a 1% decrease in wages. Again, retirement valuations are positively correlated with salary. We confirm the …
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Total reward offerings that attract : an investigation conducted in SMEs
… can manipulate in order to compile compelling job offers that are attractive to top talent. An ideal total rewards offering for the attraction of skilled employees that capitalises on the strengths that smaller companies possess, will be proposed. Motivation for the study : Retaining highly …
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Reward Optimisation: The case for employer branding
… and the perceived attractiveness of a job offer has consistently been found and is often the basis of determining reward offerings. The global economic recession of the recent past and the decreasing availability of financial resources has meant that organisations need to identify …
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Empirical essays on job search behavior, active labor market policies, and propensity score balancing methods
… that generate rather non-specific types of job offer information at low relative cost. We also find small but significant positive effects of an increase of the network size on the reservation wage. These results have important implications on the analysis of the job search monitoring or …