Job-testing technologies enable firms to rely less on human judgment when making hiring
decisions. Placing more weight on test scores may improve hiring decisions by reducing the …

Although there has been a notable increase in research on the effect of social relationships
on turnover across different disciplines, including management, sociology, communication …

The conditions under which young workers find their first real post-graduation jobs are
important for their future careers and insufficiently documented given their potential …

How much do a manager's interpersonal skills with subordinates, which we call people
management skills, affect employee outcomes? Are managers rewarded for having such …

Using personnel data from nine large firms in three industries (call centers, trucking, and
high-tech), we empirically assess the benefit to firms of hiring through employee referrals …

This article derives novel testable implications of referral-based job search networks in
which employees provide employers with information about potential new hires that they …

Social networks are important for finding jobs, but which ties are most useful? Granovetter
has suggested that “weak ties” are more valuable than “strong ties,” since strong ties have …

We conduct a large-scale field experiment in the German labor market to investigate how
information provision affects job seekers' employment prospects and labor market outcomes …

Referred workers are more likely than nonreferred workers to be hired, all else equal. In
three field experiments in an online labor market, we examine why. We find that referrals …

Selecting more productive employees among a pool of job applicants can be a cost-effective
means of improving organizational performance and may be particularly important in the …