How factorial survey analysis improves our understanding of employer preferences

P McDonald - Swiss Journal of Sociology, 2019 - sciendo.com
Factorial Survey Analysis (FSA) is an analytical tool that presents respondents with fictional
situations (“vignettes”) to be rated or judged. In this paper we study the use of FSA in labour …

Language roulette–the effect of random placement on refugees' labour market integration

D Auer - Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Placement of refugees and subsequent labour market integration within a host country
represents a key challenge for policymakers and has emerged as one of the most divisive …

Why are employers put off by long spells of unemployment?

E Van Belle, V Di Stasio, R Caers… - European …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Recent evidence from large-scale field experiments has shown that employers use job
candidates' unemployment duration as a sorting criterion. In the present study, we …

High education and university teaching and learning processes: Soft skills

A Ragusa, V Caggiano, R Trigueros Ramos… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
In the era of globalization and technology, society demands young generations of citizens
able to work in a kind of environment characterized by complexity and diversity. Therefore …

Preferred policy responses to technological change: Survey evidence from OECD countries

MR Busemeyer, M Gandenberger… - Socio-Economic …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
How do the labor market risks associated with technological change affect policy
preferences? We argue that higher perceptions of technology-related risks should increase …

The wage penalty for motherhood: Evidence on discrimination from panel data and a survey experiment for Switzerland

D Oesch, O Lipps, P McDonald - Demographic Research, 2017 - JSTOR
BACKGROUND Survey-based research finds a sizeable unexplained wage gap between
mothers and nonmothers in affluent countries. The source of this wage gap is unclear: It can …

Greater local supply of language courses improves refugees' labor market integration

A Kanas, Y Kosyakova - European Societies, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Utilizing the German residential allocation and residency obligation policies, which can be
regarded as a natural experiment, we investigate the causal effect of the local supply of …

Economic outcomes of immigrants with different migration motives: The role of labour market policies

A Kanas, S Steinmetz - European Sociological Review, 2021 - academic.oup.com
This paper studies the role of labour market policies for economic outcomes of immigrants
with different migration motives. Using two recent European Union Labour Force Surveys ad …

On the non-standard routes: vocational training measures in the school-to-work transitions of lower-qualified youth in Germany

J Achatz, K Jahn, B Schels - Journal of Vocational Education & …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This study explores school-to-work transitions in Germany, aiming to achieve a richer
understanding of the complexity of labour market entry trajectories while focusing on …

The matching hierarchies model: evidence from a survey experiment on employers' hiring intent regarding immigrant applicants

D Auer, G Bonoli, F Fossati… - International migration …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
We seek to understand why immigrants encounter labor market integration difficulties and
thus propose a model that combines ethnic and occupational rankings to predict which …